World Regional Geography: Module 4
Which nation's growing global economic presence and growing foreign investments has the greatest direct benefit to Eurasia?
China
What is perestroika?
Restructuring of the planned centralized economy, an early move toward a freer market.
The most common language spoken in Moldova is
Romanian
In the mid-19th century, which country moved into Central Asia to fill the power void left by the decline of the Chinese Empire and to keep the British out of the region?
Russia
Which East Asian country has several disputes with neighbors over land borders and over claims to islands in the region?
Taiwan
Which nation in East Asia is an island?
Taiwan
What is the name of the fundamentalist Islamic group that was in power in Afghanistan until the United States military intervened in fall of 2001?
Taliban
Which of the following cities of Central Asia is largely a Soviet creation?
Tashkent
What is the primary reason that more people live in western Eurasia than in Siberia?
The western part of Eurasia is better suited for agriculture.
Which of the following statements best reflects religion in the post-Soviet era?
There has been a religious revival with the downfall of the Soviet Union.
The populations of Japan and South Korea
are predominately urban
Hikikomori
are young Japanese, usually male, who rarely leave their homes and largely live online
The Pamir Knot
is a complex of mountain ranges where Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and China meet.
When was the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad completed?
1984
What is the approximate population of Eurasia?
200 million
Which country of East Asia has the lowest percentage of its population living in urban areas?
China
Eastward movement of Russians into Siberia
Accelerated with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Which Central Asian country has been the world's leading producer of opium?
Afgahnistan
The country with the highest crude birth rate (CBR) in Central Asia is
Afghanistan
Which Central Asian country suffered a Soviet invasion in 1979 and subsequent civil war after the Soviet were forced out?
Afghanistan
Which country served as an independent buffer state separating the Russian Empire from British India?
Afghanistan
Which of the following was NOT a former Soviet Republic? 1. Afghanistan 2. Kyrgyzstan 3. Kazakhstan 4. Uzbekistan 5. Azerbaijan
Afghanistan
Which nation in East Asia once promulgated a one-child per family policy?
China
Japan remained largely closed to foreign commerce and influence until gunboats from which nation sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 to demand trade access?
American
Which city of Central Asia is a prime example of a forward capital?
Astana
The most densely populated area of Central Asia is
Fergana Valley
The sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese in 1997 by which former European colonial power?
Britain
Which area is NOT considered part of Eurasia?
Central Asia (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan)
Which of the following deserts is primarily located in Mongolia?
Gobi
Where has the recent, largest proportion of migrants to Tibet and western provinces of China originate from?
Han Chinese from eastern China
Which group of people in Afghanistan practice Shiite Islam?
Hazara
The most populous urban area in China is comprised of
Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou
Which statement about economic development in Central Asia is most accurate? 1. It is one of the world's poorest regions, but it contains significant natural resources. 2. It is one of the world's poorest regions, and it contains few significant natural resources. 3. It is one of the world's middle developed regions and has few significant natural resources. 4. It is one of the world's richest regions, and it contains significant natural resources. 5. It is one of the world's richest regions, but it contains few significant natural resources.
It is one of the world's poorest regions, but it contains significant natural resources.
What is predicted to happen in Central Asia as climate change continues?
It will experience melting of glaciers and reduced river flows.
The Shinto religion is most closely associated with which country of East Asia?
Japan
Where is almost all of the rice grown for Japanese consumption?
Japan
Which East Asian country has a historic tradition of forest conservation?
Japan
Which country in East Asia has resorted to "pollution exporting" because of strict environmental laws and as a way to improve its environment?
Japan
Which country in East Asia is rapidly ageing and facing population decline?
Japan
Which nation was once ruled by a shogunate?
Japan
Which of the following is an example of an exclave?
Kaliningrad
What former Soviet republics had the greatest minorities of Russia as a result of Russification policy?
Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Estonia
Which body of water in Eurasia is the world's largest reserve of freshwater?
Lake Baikal
What are mikrorayons?
Large housing projects built in the 1970s and 1980s in the former Soviet Union.
Where is China's "rust belt" located?
Manchuria
The Ming Dynasty was toppled in 1644 by the
Manchus
The architect of the Great Leap Forward was
Mao Zedong
Which Central Asian country was created as a buffer state between two larger powers?
Mongolia
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding social development and gender issues in Central Asia? 1. Social conditions are very similar throughout Central Asia. 2. Mongolia is noted for its relatively high levels of social development as well as for its pronounced gender equity. 3. Women tend have low levels of education in Central Asian countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union. 4. "Bride abduction" has become an issue of the past in Kyrgyzstan. 5. Women have historically had less autonomy in pastoral societies than they did in agricultural and urban societies.
Mongolia is noted for its relatively high levels of social development as well as for its pronounced gender equity.
Which of the following best characterizes the physical geography of Siberia?
Much of the tundra region of Siberia is associated with permafrost.
Which country has isolated themselves from global culture?
North Korea
Where did the Taliban establish safe havens after their defeat in Afghanistan by the United States following the September 11, 2001, attacks?
Pakistan
Which of the following languages is Tajik most closely related to?
Persian
In the post-Soviet era what has become the policy of Russification in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia
Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave Central Asia.
In the post-Soviet era, what has become the policy of Russification in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia?
Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave Central Asia.
Which of the following cities is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Samarkand
Cossacks are
Seminomadic, Slavic-speaking Christians living on the Russian steppes.
In what region of Eurasia was the Soviet Union's Gulag Archipelago located?
Siberia
In which region of Eurasia is permafrost a natural occurrence?
Siberia
What language group dominates the Eurasian region?
Slavic
What was the Soviet policy regarding religion within its borders?
The Soviet Union discouraged all religion and even persecuted religious practice.
What does the term "Russification" mean?
The policy of resettling Russian into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union.
Why have Central Asian countries had difficulty in exporting petroleum and natural gas?
The region is landlocked and countries must pay pipeline transit fees to neighboring countries.
Which statement best describes the religious geography of Ukraine?
The western half is largely Catholic, while the eastern half is largely Eastern Orthodox Christian.
The most extensive plateau region of Central Asia, most of which is over 12000 feet (3700 meters) above sea level, is the
Tibetan
What were the two main reasons China constructed the massive Three Gorges Dam project?
To control flooding on the Yangtze and to generate hydroelectricity.
The capital and most densely populated city in Japan is
Tokyo
Which country imposed strict migration laws in 2018 that banned anyone under the age of 40 years from leaving the country, as an attempt to reduce the number of its people fleeing poverty?
Turkmenistan
Which part of Eurasia has historically been the most productive agricultural areas of the region with its "black earth" chernozem soils?
Ukraine
What natural feature marks the division between European Russia and Siberia?
Ural Mountains
The ethnolinguistic group who practices Islam in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang are known as
Uyghurs
Which country is the world's fourth-largest cotton exporter?
Uzbekistan
The British sphere of influence in the 19th century in China and East Asia was mainly in
central coast and interior China
The Soviet economy was based on a system known as
centralized economic planning
What is the pattern of land-use zones in the Russian city?
circular
Central Asia is unique among world regions in that it is
completely landlocked in the core of the largest landmass
China has recently invested in Afghanistan to produce
copper
What has been the general pattern of population change in post-Soviet Eurasia?
declining population
The Trans-Siberian Railroad
ends at the port city of Vladivostok
What is a design practice in accordance with the spiritual powers found in local topography?
feng shui
How many new countries appeared in Central Asia as a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union?
five
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) allowed for
foreign investment with minimal state interference
The practice of forced labor or prostitution of individuals, usually women and often sent to another country, is known as
human trafficking
Which two climate types are found in Japan?
humid subtropical and humid continental
Urbanization in Eurasia
often features outstanding public transportation
What transportation technology has been constructed and with more planned so that oil and natural gas from Central Asia can be exported?
pipelines
Which are the characteristics of a high-latitude continental climate, as illustrated by Eurasia?
seasonal temperature extremes and short growing season
Much of Central Asia is dominated by
steppe
Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that survives in the podzol soil region of Eurasia?
sugarcane
Which two bodies of water are north of Eurasia?
the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean
The radicalism which swept through China in the mid-1960s that aimed to rid the country of traditional social values and replace them with communist ideology was known as
the Cultural Revolution
Which region of East Asia is most prone to desertification?
the North China plain
Which two countries decided to divide Korea at the end of WWII?
the Soviet Union and the United States
Which two countries were the primary rivals in the Cold War?
the United States and the Soviet Union
Who were the Bolsheviks?
the faction of Russian communism representing interests of industrial workers, who established the former Soviet Union
Confucianism stresses all of the following ideals EXCEPT: 1. respect for tradition 2. the importance of the family 3. the importance of ethics 4. the reverence of nature 5. deference to authority
the reverence of nature
Which of the following climates is NOT featured in Central Asia? 1. humid continental (Dwa) 2. midlatitude desert (BWk) 3. tropical savanna (Af) 4. highland (H) 5. midlatitude steppe (BSk)
tropical savanna (Af)
The highest population densities in Eurasia are found in which region?
west of the Ural Mountains
The northern part of China largely grows
wheat, millet, and sorghum
The majority of emigrants leaving the Central Asian former Soviet republics are currently
young men seeking work in the booming Russian economy
