Mastering practice
When did Mongolia begin communist rule?
1924
In what year did China become a communist state
1949
In India, roughly how many metropolitan areas have more than 1 million inhabitants?
50
Thanks to the discovery of oil and other mineral resources, Cambodia is making good economic improvement as of late. From 2009 to 2015, Cambodia experienced a Gross Domestic Product growth rate of approximately _________ percent.
7%
Which of the following is the organization that has done the most to give Southeast Asia regional coherence and to reduce geopolitical problems in the region?
ASEAN
This country, which is the least-developed and most male-dominated country of the region, has the highest birthrate by a wide margin.
Afghanistan
One of the great environmental tragedies of the 20th century was the virtual destruction of which of the following Central Asian water bodies?
Aral Sea
According to your textbook, which of the following South Asian countries is the poorest as evaluated by several development measures?
Bangladesh
Christianity in South Asia is represented by a number of Christian sects, including which of the following?
Baptist Christians Roman Catholic Christians Syrian Christian Church
Considered part of insular Southeast Asia, Malaysia is split between the mainland Malay Peninsula and what island?
Borneo
In the 1700s, European colonialists took advantage of political and military turmoil throughout South Asia. The most successful exploitation was by a private organization that acted as an arm of its government. What was the name of this organization?
British East India Company
Invaluable forests throughout Southeast Asia have been destroyed over the past 50 years. Which of the following countries is the main importer of Southeast Asian wood products?
China
Which of the following countries has sustained the most foreign investment to the region since 2014?
China
For which of the following reasons does China maintain strict control over the Xinjiang province?
China views its Central Asian lands as essential parts of its national territory.
In South Asia, the two largest religions found are Hindu and Islam. Which of the following is NOT one of the other religions found in the region?
Confucianism
Which of the following organized religions dominates in the Russian Domain?
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Which of the following is NOT one of the major mountain ranges of Central Asia?
Elburz
Russian became the lingua franca of western Central Asia during the Soviet era, but which of the following is an emerging language due to globalization?
English
What is the language that is most often used in the East Asia region between nationals of different countries, such as business meetings between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean firms?
English
The Russian Domain is composed of all of the following except
Estonia
Which of the following statements is true regarding agricultural practices in East Asian countries?
Farming practices are extremely intensive and constrained to lowlands.
The first major external influence on Southeast Asia was the arrival and establishment of which of the following? SHOW HINT
Hindu kingdoms roughly 2,000 years ago
Which of the following groups was/were behind the formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Hindu nationalists
What is the name for Muslims that speak Mandarin Chinese?
Hui
Which of the following provides irrigation waters to Pakistan's deserts?
Indus
What is the primary reason that insular Southeast Asia has numerous volcanoes?
Insular Southeast Asia lies along the intersection of several tectonic plates.
Why are women in rural eastern Afghanistan forbidden from showing their faces in public?
It is an ethnic Pashtun custom.
Which of the following statements is true about Taiwan?
It is still extensively forested. It is an island about the size of Maryland. It is mountainous in the east with lowlands in the west. It is often hit by typhoons in early autumn.
Which of the following statements regarding the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is NOT true?
It likely worsens air pollution in the area
According to your textbook, Russia has unresolved border issues with which of the following countries?
Japan
The 1992 Russian Federation Treaty created a new internal political framework for Russia. Besides its islands, which of the following is the only piece of territory or exclave that remains outside Russia's contiguous land area?
Kaliningrad
Which of the following statements regarding the Kashmir Valley is/are true?
Kashmir was once South Asia's premier tourist destination but is now battle-scarred. Pakistan and India periodically war with each other over control of Jammu and Kashmir. Primarily Muslim Kashmir is flanked by mainly Hindu Jammu in the south and Tibetan Buddhist Ladakh in the northeast. Some Muslim militants want Kashmir to become an independent country of its own
Which Central Asia's country has the world's first and largest space launch facility?
Kazakhstan
Which of the following Central Asian countries has the most developed economy?
Kazakhstan
During the mid-1970s, millions of Cambodians were killed by a brutal regime led by a radical Communist group called
Khmer Rouge
Though many of the world's primary cities usually suffer from housing problems and pollution, which two Southeast Asian cities have stayed remarkably free of slums and pollution?
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
The Fergana Valley is shared by which three countries in Central Asia?
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
In the last decade, several Southeast Asian countries have shown interest in, and made a territorial claim to, both the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. What is it about these two sets of islands that makes them so attractive?
Large amounts of untapped oil may exist below the islands.
Language is an important part of Southeast Asia's cultural geography. What was the common trade language, or lingua franca, throughout insular Southeast Asia
Malay
Which of the following is NOT one of the lasting effects in Russia from the Soviet period?
Manufacturing efficiency and quality exceeded standards of the United States and Europe.
Which of the following is true regarding Russia's market-driven agricultural economy?
Many farmers formed voluntary cooperatives.
Which of the following statements regarding the result of the South Asian Partition in 1947 is true?
Millions of people fled their homelands and moved across borders throughout South Asia.
Which of the following is true regarding the position of women in the former Soviet Zone of Central Asia?
Mongolia has one of the world's highest percentages of women legislators, senior officials, and managers. Women have higher levels of education in the former Soviet areas. Female professional and technical workers outnumber male ones in the former Soviet areas.
Which of the following is a true statement regarding the Chinese Special Economic Zones (SEZs)? SHOW HINT
Most SEZs have been opened in Chinese coastal regions.
Although volcanic soils are extremely fertile, most of insular Southeast Asia has relatively infertile rainforest soils. Which of the following statements regarding island rainforest soils is true?
Nutrients are washed out of the soils by incessant rains. Nutrients for agriculture must rely on constant field rotation or heavy application of fertilizers. Nutrients are locked up in the vegetation itself.
Which of the following is a major drainage system in Siberia?
Ob, Yenisey, and Lena rivers
South Asia recently surpassed East Asia as the world's most populated region. According to your textbook, which of the following South Asian countries would rank among the world's 10 most populated countries?
Pakistan India Bangladesh
The coastal areas of mainland southeast Asia and the Philippines are highly vulnerable to tropical cyclones, known as typhoons. In 2013, which of the following countries experienced the strongest storm in its recorded history, with Typhoon Haiyan killing or harming 14 million people?
Philippines
Which of the following statements regarding South Asia is NOT true?
Population growth and overcrowding have been well controlled by South Asian countries.
The eastern half of the island of Timor was once a colonial possession of which of the following European powers
Portugal
Which of the following is true about the region's social programs?
Reduced investments into social infrastructure. Steep cutbacks in many social programs. Dependence on foreign aid and international loans to maintain social programs.
Approximately 80 percent of Russia's populations claim what linguistic identity?
Russian
During the Soviet era, what was the voluntary and involuntary resettlement of Russians into non-Russian areas known as?
Russification
From many perspectives, the Japanese appear to form one of the world's most homogenous peoples. Which of the following are distinct from this understanding of Japanese, ethnically, linguistically, or in other ways?
Ryukyu Japanese of Korean descent Ainu
Most Central Asian cities developed under Russian or Soviet rule, but which of the following cities was famous hundreds of years earlier?
Samarkand
As a legacy of British colonialism in India, most national-level communication is conducted in English. Which of the following language families is NOT one of the non-English languages of India?
Semitic
Recent demographic changes throughout Southeast Asia include dramatic declines in fertility, which is considered a good thing in nearly every country. Which country in the region has a government that actively promotes childbearing?
Singapore
According to your textbook, where in the East Asia region do Christians make up as much as 30% of the population?
South Korea
Which of the following Central Asian countries has experienced a U.S. armed presence within its borders?
Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Afghanistan
Which is the only country in Southeast Asia to have never been subjected to European colonial rule?
Thailand
Which of the following is NOT one of South Asia's four physical subregions?
Thar Desert
Which of the following statements regarding the city-state of Singapore is NOT true?
The Singapore government is completely democratic.
The Russian Domain provides the world's largest example of a high-latitude continental climate. Which of the following characteristics best explain this climate?
The growing seasons are short, limiting agricultural output. Human settlements are limited due to the climate. The seasonal temperatures are very extreme, ranging from very cold to very hot.
Which of the following statements is true about the soil from the Loess Plateau?
The soil is prone to erosion. The soil is agriculturally productive. The soil was deposited during the last Ice Age.
Although East Asia has a relatively large population, which of the following is true regarding recent changes in its birthrates?
They have plummeted.
Which two Central Asia countries are NOT largely Muslim?
Tibet and Mongolia
Which of the following East Asian cities is one of the largest in the region?
Tokyo
Which of the following statements apply/applies to Goa, India?
Tourists often wear thong bikini bottoms. Tourists come from Europe.
Which of the following language groups is spoken by more Central Asians than any other?
Turkish
Which of the following reasons best explain the crisis in Ukraine?
Ukraine's regional cultural divide between its Ukrainian and Russian populations intensified. Russia's illegal occupation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 Since the 1990s, Ukraine has been a divided, politically unstable state. Russia's economic and military support of rebel forces in eastern Ukraine
Which of the following Central Asian countries is one of the world's largest cotton exporters?
Uzbekistan
Which of the following is the term that describes the ancient fourfold social hierarchy of the Hindu world, which has persisted today as India's caste system?
Varna
Which river valley effectively divides China into northern and southern areas?
Yangtze
What is the correct term for the sediment deposits that are formed from streams flowing out of the mountains, which have long been devoted to intensive cultivation in Central Asia?
alluvial fans
China is increasingly connected with Central Asia through which of the following?
an oil and gas pipeline and transportation initiatives
Confucianism significantly influenced cultural development in China and Korea. Which of the following is NOT a main characteristic of Confucian philosophy?
belief in a supreme being
Which of the following is NOT an aspect of East Asian urban systems?
bustees (hutments)
What are the two terms for squatter settlements of temporary, and often illegal, housing found in the cities of India?
bustees and hutments
Which of the following is NOT one of the environmental issues in the Russian Domain?
desalinization
Alluvial fans
fan-shaped deposits of sediment dropped by streams flowing out of the mountains and have long been devoted to intensive cultivation in Central Asia
Which crops are cultivated in the northern part of the Japanese island of Honshu?
fruit potatoes vegetables rice
East Asia's writing systems differ from others worldwide because they are based on each character representing an idea, rather than a sound. What is this called?
ideographic writing
The future of the Russian Domain's economic geography, especially of Russia, is tied to the fortunes of which of the following?
its energy economy
The Taliban, a radical fundamentalist Islamic group, controlled Afghanistan from the mid-1990s to 2001. Before they were forced from power by invasion of U.S. and UK troops, the Taliban severely restricted daily life for Afghans by outlawing which of the following?
kite flying films or movies music television
In terms of physical geography, North Korea has all of the following natural advantages over South Korea EXCEPT
larger lowlands for agricultural productivity
During the Soviet era, a number of planned residential zones were built in newly developed urban areas in an effort to form self-contained communities. What were these large massed blocks of apartment buildings called? SHOW HINT
mikrorayons
Poverty is extreme and widespread in Pakistan, partly because of the country's dense population. How many of the country's children are malnourished?
nearly 50 percent
Which of the following was NOT one of the things that initially attracted European colonial powers to Southeast Asia?
oil
The poorest country in the region, Afghanistan is nonetheless one of the world's largest producers of which of the following?
opium
What is the term for the increased precipitation that results from uplifting and cooling of moist air over mountains?
orographic rainfall
What policy did President Gorbachev introduce in the 1980s in order to restructure Soviet Union's economy?
perestroika
Which of the following characteristics best describe Russia's demographic crisis?
relatively high mortality rates low birthrates overall decline in population
How does Japan maintain a relatively clean environment?
strict air and water pollution laws exportation of highly polluting activities to other countries a highly efficient public transportation system
According to your textbook, which of the following South Asian countries is the most prosperous in the region?
the Maldives
Along which of the following water features are many of western Russia's urban centers located?
the Volga River
Cold War geopolitics strongly influenced the development of modern East Asia. Which of the following is a legacy of such Cold War geopolitics?
the status of Taiwan as an autonomous province of China a division of Korea into communist North and capitalist South the maintenance of U.S. military bases in Japan
What is the term for Indonesia's policy for relocating people from densely populated areas to those that are more lightly populated?
transmigration
Which of the following agricultural and settlement patterns is a sustainable form of agriculture but is increasingly being threatened by higher population densities?
upland swidden systems
Which of the following best describe(s) the Green Revolution in South Asia?
use of large quantities of industrial fertilizers crops lacking natural resistance to diseases and insects high-yield crop strains of wheat and rice
