Geography Chapters 14-15 Test
Plateau of Tibet
"Roof of the World"
Chang Jiang (Yangtze)
3rd longest river in the world (in China)
China's civilization is more than _____ years old.
4,000
Silk Road
4,000 mile long trade route
Ecotourism
A business that draws visitors to rainforests and coral reefs
Absolute Monarchy
A government where a ruler has unlimited power over a country
Constitutional Monarchy
A government where the ruler's powers are limited by laws
Archipelago
A group of islands
Dynasty
A line of rulers from a single family
Likay
A popular form of folk theatre in Thailand
Cultural Revolution
A program to rid China of anti-communism among intellectuals
Han
A river that flows through Seoul (South Korea)
In the early 1500s, Portuguese navigators discovered they could reach India and Southeast Asia by sailing around the southern tip of _____.
Africa
Insular Area
An area made up of islands
Sphere of Infulence
An area of a country where a single foreign power has trading rights
Fauna
Animal life
Four large islands and thousands of smaller ones form the _____ of Japan.
Archipelago
China's major river systems _____.
Begin on the Plateau of Tibet
Across most of the mainland of Southeast Asia, _____ is the most widely practiced religion.
Buddhism
The ethnic group that dominates the mainland in Myanmar is the _____.
Burmese
Huang He
Called Yellow River because of the silt
In China and Japan, the art of _____ is considered one of the highest art forms.
Calligraphy
In which country did the Khmer Rouge develop?
Cambodia
Which country enacted a "one-child" policy to help slow its population growth?
China
Which country is the largest in the region of East Asia?
China
Great Leap Forward
Chinese program to increase industrial output
China is the world's largest producer of _____.
Coal
In China, factories and _____ power plants have led to large increases in air pollution.
Coal-burning
Daoism
Comes from someone named Laozi
Which term refers to a material, resource, or product that is bought and sold?
Commodity
Taiwan
De facto country
Hong Kong
Dominated by tall buildings because of limited territory
Many animal species in Southeast Asia are _____, or found nowhere else in the world.
Endemic
_____ is one of the greatest challenges that Southeast Asian countries face.
Environmental Change
The Plateau of China is called "the roof of the world" because of its _____.
Extremely high elevation
During the 1800s and early 1900s, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia became colonies of _____.
France
Established in the A.D. 100s, _____ was one of the first important trade-based states in the region.
Funan
Which city in East Asia is described as "one of the most vertical places on Earth"?
Hong Kong
Tsunami
Huge ocean wave triggered by an earthquake
Mekong River
Important river in Vietnam
Khmer Empire
In Cambodia; the one that built the Angkor Wat
Forty percent of the population of Southeast Asia live in _____.
Indonesia
The largest country in Southeast Asia is _____.
Indonesia
The megalopolis of Jakarta in _____ is one of the largest in the world.
Indonesia
_____ has the greatest number of active volcanoes in the world.
Indonesia
By the 1600s, which religion had become dominant across much of the Malay Archipelago?
Islam
The dominant religion on the southern Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian islands is _____.
Islam
The Huang He is sometimes called "China's Sorrow" because _____.
Its floods have destroyed homes and crops and have drowned many people
The Japanese islands were settled by people from _____ and China.
Korea
Samurai
Land-owning warriors in early Japan
Which Chinese thinker thought that people should live in harmony with nature?
Laozi
In Thailand, plays known as _____ feature singing, dancing, and vibrantly colored costumes.
Likay
Which term refers to the silt that gives the Yellow River and Yellow Sea their names and color?
Loess
Buddhism
Main religion of mainland SE Asia, introduced from India
The Strait of _________ links the South China and Andaman seas.
Malacca
What Southeast Asian island group has a larger area than any other island group in the world?
Malay archipelago
The official language of China is _____.
Mandarin Chinese
In the Philippines, _____ is a primate city that dominates the rest of the country.
Manila
Megalopolis
Many cities that have merged
Southeast Asia is called "the Crossroads of the World" because it is located along important _____.
Maritime trade routes
Southeast Asia's longest river is the _____.
Mekong
Shogun
Military leader in early Japan
Rice
Most widely grown crop of the area
The Himalaya reach their highest point at _____, which is the highest mountain in the world.
Mount Everest
Which landform is a well-known symbol of Japan?
Mount Fuji
Which country in Southeast Asia is also known as Burma?
Myanmar
East Timor
Newest country of SE Asia (2002)
In addition to China, which other country in East Asia has been criticized for violating human rights?
North Korea
To defend the _____ area of their empire, the Chinese began building the Great Wall of China about 2,200 years ago.
Northern
Which product invented during China's Han dynasty is still in use around the world today?
Paper
Flora
Plant life
"K-Pop'
Popular kind of music in East Asia
Southeast Asia was important to Japan before and during World War II because it had valuable _____.
Resources
Irrawaddy
River that runs through the plains area in the middle of Myanmar
In the Philippines and East Timor, most people are _____.
Roman Catholic
Landowning warriors called _____ supported Japan's military leaders.
Samurai
Ring of Fire
Seismically active zone
In Japan, many people practice a religion that combines Buddhism with _____.
Shinto
Han rulers encouraged trade along the _____, which was a caravan route between China and Southwest Asia.
Silk Road
The fabulous wealth of the _____ led European powers to seek ocean routes to Southeast Asia.
Spice trade
Sepaktakraw
Sport that is like soccer and volleyball
The biggest holiday of the year in China is _____ Festival, also known as Chinese New Year.
Spring
Which country in East Asia is a de facto country?
Taiwan
Himalaya
Tallest mountains in the world
Formerly known as Siam, _____ was the only state in Southeast Asia that Europeans did not colonize.
Thailand
Pacific Rim
The area around the Pacific Ocean
Manila
The capital of the Philippines
Thailand
The only SE asian country that was NOT colonized
The Irrawaddy, Salween, and Mekong rivers begin high on the Plateau of _____.
Tibet
When a country exports more products than it imports, a(n) ______ occurs.
Trade surplus
Which term describes the large movement of people from the country to the cities?
Urbanization
In the 100s B.C., China conquered the Red River delta area and made ______ a province of China for the next 1,000 years.
Vietnam
The traditional regional sport called sepaktakraw is similar to the sport of _____.
Volleyball
Trade Surplus
When a country exports more than it imports
Calligraphy
Written words turned into expressive images
Krakatoa
an Indonesian volcano that erupted in 1883 that killed thousands of people
Mao Zedong
communist Chinese leader
The United States sent warships to Japan in 1854 to _____.
pressure the Japanese to open their country to foreign trade
