GEOG 207

What is loess

A fine, glacially generated silt that is deposited by the wind

Which southeast Asian country remains a significant oil exporter relative to the size of its economy

Brunei

Followers of which religion in Central Asia have suffered persecution from Chinese authorities in Tibet

Buddhism

How were the himalayas formed

By the collision of peninsular India with the Asian landmass

Which central asian lake is the largest lake in the world

Caspian Sea

Almost all of India's rapidly growing electricity demand is being met by what source

Coal

Netherlands

Country in Europe primarily located on the European lowland

What causes a tsunami

Earthquake

What country is the newest country in Southeast Asia

East Timor

Coal and steel

Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War II centered on what commodity?

Pyrenees

European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France

Fifth stage

European population is characterized by which stage of the demographic transition

Danube

Europes longest river

What is the most serious natural hazard in Bangladesh

Flooding

Viticulture

Grapes

A thousand years ago, what was the major unifying force in South Asia

Hinduism

Sikhism is a blend of what two religions

Hinduism and Islam

Which country in east asia has resorted to pollution exporting as a way to improve its environment

Japan

What is the most densely settled island of indonesia

Java

What territory in South Asia is claimed by both India and Pakistan

Kashmir

What is transmigration

It is the relocation of a nations population from one location to another within its national territory

In the early days of its colonization Britain used Australia as a

Prison colony

Thailand has the dubious distinction of being one of the world's centers for this illicit activity

Prostitution

Which region of India is considered to be its breadbasket

Punjab

Japan has a policy of self-sufficiency in which product

Rice

In which region of the Russian Domain is permafrost a problem?

Siberia

Which countries in East Asia are known for their urban primacy

South Korea and Taiwan

Why is the environment in Central Asia relatively clean

low population density coupled with low level of economic development

Euro

The currency of the European Monetary Union

Problems associated with the construction of the Three Gorges Dam include all of the following except

The diversion of two other major rivers to fill the Three Gorges reservoir

Which country has offered itself as a model secular state for Central Asian republics to emulate

Turkey

What event sets off the process that creates an atoll

Volcanic eruption

what land form dominates much of New Zealand

Volcanic mountains

It has aligned itself with Russian intelligence agencies and has gone global in its activities

What influence did the breakup of the Soviet Union have on the Russian mafia

Planned economic reconstructing, an early move toward a freer market

What is perestroika?

Continental

What is the dominant climate type in the Russian Domain?

The Ural Mountains

What marks European Russia's eastern edge, separating it from Siberia?

Balkanization

What term describes the fragmented geopolitical processes involved with small-scale independence movements and the phenomenon of mini-nationalism as it develops along ethnic fault lines?

An ideological struggle between the US and the former Soviet Union from 1946-1991

What was the cold war?

The USSR severely discouraged and even persecuted religious practice

What was the policy of the former Soviet Union (USSR) regarding religion within its borders?

Switzerland

Which of the following European countries has never been a member of the European Union

The Three Gorges Dam is being constructed on which river in China

Yangtze

What is the second most populous country in the Australia/Oceania regions

new zealand

Which of the following was not a strategy of the Soviet Union in central Asia

nurture local nationalisms

What product has been growing in the golden triangle region of northern, mountainous southeast asia

opium

Korea is located on which type of land form

peninsula

What agricultural system is sometimes referred to as slash and burn

swidden

What religion did the indigenous peoples of southeast asia practice before the arrival of religions from elsewhere

Animism

What is the outback

Australia's huge dry interior

England

In which country did the Industrial Revolution start?

Which country in Southeast Asia contains the largest number of islands

Indonesia

What is the longest river in South Asia

Indus

Oil and natural gas

Investments in Russia are most common in which of these products

What type of animals are most closely associated with Australia

Marsupials

The longest river in Southeast Asia

Mekong

In which country of central Asia is the Gobi Desert found

Mongolia

What climatic factor dominates south asia

Monsoons

Where in Australia/Oceania do anthropologists have the greatest chance of finding un-contacted peoples

New Guinea

Over the last three decades, which country of East Asia has had the slowest economic growth

North Korea

Which country of East Asia has taken recent steps to acquire nuclear weaponry, triggering concern in the US?

North Korea

Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave these regions

Since the collapse of the soviet union, what has become the policy of Russification within former soviet republics?

How many new countries appeared in Central Asia as a result of the break up of the Soviet Union

Six

The western-most part of the region

The highest population densities in the Russian Domain are found in which part of the region?

Which chinese region has experienced the greatest recent economic expansion

The provinces along the coast

Young well-educated populations leaving Russia for other countries

The regions unpredictable politics and poor economic conditions have led to this migration pattern

Even though the Aral Sea and Caspian Sea have the word sea in their names they are not true seas. Why?

They are not connected to an ocean

Central Asia's prominence as a region has increased since the 1990s due to

the discovery of large oil and gas reserves

Which of the following is not one of the topographic regions of Australia

the dry scrubby vegetation known as the Outback

Early urban development in Central Asia was located near

the silk route

Bangladesh

was once part of Pakistan