GEO 204 exam 3
China's current population is closest to:
1.4 billion
The Muslim minority constitutes approximately ____ percent of the total population of India.
15%
Mao Zedong's proclamation creating the communist People's Republic of China was announced in:
1949
East Pakistan became Bangladesh in:
1971
The approximate percentage of India's urban population is ___________.
30%
During the 20th century, a majority of the 10 costliest natural disasters in the world struck __________.
Bangladesh
The highest ranking priestly caste in India is known as the ________.
Brahmans
The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the __________ River.
Chang-Yangzi
Figure 8-7 shows that the territory called Aksai Chin is currently under this country's political control:
China
Taiwan is located off the mainland coast of:
China
The country of the "people of Han" is:
China
The huge volcanic plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the __________.
Deccan Plateau
Which of the following cities is NOT connected to the Golden Quadrilateral superhighway that links India's main urban centers? a) Mumbai b) Dhaka c) Delhi d) Kolkata e) Chennai
Dhaka
The peoples and languages of southern India are collectively known as:
Dravidian
T/F: China's One-Child Policy was instituted during Mao's regime.
F
T/F: China's population has many more females than males.
F
T/F: In China's SEZs, contract labor is not allowed.
F
T/F: Japan's 4 largest islands are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Sakhalin.
F
T/F: Taiwan was conquered by the Chinese communists in 1949.
F
T/F: The Yangzi River flows into the Pearl River Estuary.
F
T/F: The fortified political boundary separating the 2 Koreas has done little to halt trade and population movements between the 2 political entities.
F
The most important river of India is the:
Ganges
The coastal edges of the Deccan plateau are marked by highlands known as the:
Ghats
The Chinese city containing the largest population is:
Guangzhou
The Untouchable caste in India is also known as the _________.
Harijans
The official language of India, one among the 14 major and numerous minor languages, is:
Hindi
The caste system is most associated with which religion?
Hinduism
Japan's largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area is:
Honshu
The country bordering Bangladesh on its north and east is:
India
The country with the 2nd largest population in the world is:
India
Which of the following pair of states emerged from the 1947 partition of British India?
India and Pakistan
The majority of India's languages belong to the language family known as __________.
Indo-European
The leading river of Pakistan is the:
Indus River
The earliest and fullest conversion of adherents to Islam in the South Asian realm occurred in the ____________.
Indus Valley
The forward capital of Pakistan, completed in the 1970s, is:
Islamabad
The component(s) of India in which tensions continue to boil over border demarcation is _____.
Jammu and Kashmir
Taiwan was at one time a colony of:
Japan
Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, is located in the _____ District.
Kansai
Japan's leading region of urbanization and industry (and agriculture as well) is the:
Kanto Plain
Which of the following cities is located in Pakistan's Sindh region? a) Dhaka b) Kabol c) Islamabad d) Lahore e) Karachi
Karachi
The area of Japan best situated to do business with Korea and China is ______.
Kitakyushu
India's IT industry is concentrated in several major cities throughout the country. In which of the following is it NOT significant? a) Bengaluru b) Hyderabad c) Delhi/New Delhi d) Kolkata e) Mumbai
Kolkata
A former Portuguese colony that is now a Special Administrative Region is:
Macau
Two former colonial entities that were reunited with China during the late 1990s are:
Macau and Hong Kong
The small group of islands that constitute a country lying about 400 miles southwest of India are the ____________.
Maldives
Bangladesh is overwhelmingly ____________ in its religious complexion.
Muslim
Which of the following countries in the South Asian realm has NOT had a female prime minister? a) Sri Lanka b) India c) Bangladesh d) Nepal e) Pakistan
Nepal
The two countries of South Asia's Mountainous North are ____________.
Nepal and Bhutan
The capital of India is:
New Delhi
Which of the following is NOT considered an Asian Tiger? a) Hong Kong b) South Korea c) Taiwan d) North Korea e) Singapore
North Korea
The country located immediately northwest of India is:
Pakistan
Which of the following associations is INCORRECT? a) Sri Lanka and Colombo b) Bangladesh and Dhaka c) Nepal and Kathmandu d) Pakistan and New Delhi e) Bhutan and Thimphu
Pakistan and New Delhi
Which river flows through Guandong Province?
Pearl
Which of the following is located in the core area of Pakistan? a) Punjab b) Sindh c) the Indus Delta d) the Tribal Areas e) Balochistan
Punjab
The SEZ that is closest in proximity to Southeast Asia is:
Shenzhen
Guandong Province faces the:
South China Sea
The Buddhist religion predominates in which country?
Sri Lanka
T/F: Although the Communist Party controls the government of China, its economic policies are generally capitalist.
T
T/F: Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are 3 of China's largest cities.
T
T/F: Buddhism has its origins in India.
T
T/F: By 2100, Japan's current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to less than 60 million
T
T/F: Hong Kong was a former British colony.
T
T/F: In the second stage of the demographic transition, the overall population expands.
T
T/F: Japan's environment does not contain an area of B climate.
T
T/F: Mao Zedong launched a movement of great upheaval in the late 1960s known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to prevent "revisionism" and to rekindle enthusiasm for the Chinese communist system.
T
T/F: Sikhism is a blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs.
T
T/F: South Asia's wet monsoon refers to seasonal rains that usually start in June.
T
T/F: The demographic transition model describes changes in birth rates, death rates, and population growth over time.
T
T/F: The economies of North and South Korea are complementary, and both states would have much to gain by reunification.
T
T/F: The leader named Deng Xiaoping guided China into a new economic era following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.
T
T/F: With the single exception of Kyoto all primary and secondary cities of Japan lie on the coast.
T
Which of the following is NOT an Indo-European language?
Telegu
Which of the following is the Chinese name for Tibet?
Xizang
The language spoken in Hong Kong and much of the Pearl River Delta is:
Yue (Cantonese)
The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was _________.
a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country
Hindutva is (are):
a movement that promotes Hindu nationalism, heritage, and/or patriotism
Japan's population: a) is expected to decline over the next half-century b) is concentrated along the shore of the Sea of Japan (East Sea) c) exhibits a low rate of literacy d) is concentrated on Hokkaido and Shikoku e) is reflective of a multicultural society
a) is expected to decline over the next half-century
Which of the following regions has been known as and is sometimes still called "Manchuria"? a) northeast China b) Taiwan c) North China Plain d) Xinjiang e) Red Basin of Sichuan
a) northeast China
The Huang He:
almost encircles the Ordos Desert
Economic growth in the South Asian realm has come about mostly as a result of. ______.
an emphasis on modernizing agriculture
Japan's natural landscapes:
are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium
In comparing India with China, which statement is incorrect? a) India's population growth rate continues to grow, whereas China's is starting to shrink b) India has a larger middle class than China c) The Chinese economy employs more people in manufacturing that does India's d) India's IT industry is more important than China's e) India's government is open and democratic, whereas China's is communist
b) India has a larger middle class than China
Which of the following statements about agriculture in India is INCORRECT? a) Wheat is grown in areas that are not moist enough to support rice cultivation. b) Wheat is grown in the east while rice dominates in the west c) About half of rural families own less than 1 hectare (2.5 acres) of land d) India contains more than 500,000 villages that cannot be accessed by truck or car e) India's agricultural population is still larger than its urban population
b) Wheat is grown in the east while rice dominates in the west
Which of the following statements about Nepal is INCORRECT? a) deforestation is a problem b) agriculture is a success story c) the Himalayas form its dominant physical feature d) it shows signs of being a failed state e) its capital is located in the country's core area
b) agriculture is a success story
Which of these statements about Mongolia is INCORRECT? a) it is considered to be a buffer state b) is wishes to be unified with China c) it is landlocked d) it has a population of only about 3 million e) it was once a domain of a powerful nomadic people who challenged both Russia and China
b) is wishes to be unified with China
In Jammu and Kashmir: a) the majority population is Hindu and the rulers are Muslims b) the majority population is Muslim and the rulers are Hindus c) India has long campaigned for elections d) the majority population is Buddhist and the rulers are Hindu e) both sides have avoided violence through compromise
b) the majority population is Muslim and the rulers are Hindus
Which of the following has NOT been important in the development Shenzhen as an SEZ? a) proximity to Hong Kong b) the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development c) state of the art port facilities d) investment of Overseas Chinese in its development e) the fastest urban growth rate in human history
b) the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development
The result of this realm's tectonic encounter ________. a) is the recently ended conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka b) is the annual monsoon c) are the Himalaya mountains d) is the simmering conflict in Jammu and Kashmir e) was that the British ruled India until 1947
c) are the Himalaya mountains
More than half of Pakistan's exports consist of _________.
cotton and textiles
Japan's unique modernization pathway was most likely assisted by _________. a) it being an island nation b) its wealth of land resources c) its relative location to other industrialized countries d) its homogeneous population e) its proximity to China
d) its homogeneous population
A widening regional economic disparity in India since 2000 has opened between ________.
east and west
The physiologic density of India is _______ the arithmetic population density.
greater than
Which of the following industries spearheaded the economic development of Bengaluru (Bangalore) over the past decade? a) coal mining b) oil refining c) textiles d) gambling and tourism e) information technology
information technology
The reason for Bangladesh's vulnerability to natural disasters is its ___________.
lowland physiography
North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of:
regional complementarity
Dominant crops in India's agricultural system include all but which of the following? a) wheat b) soybeans c) rice d) millet e) chickpeas
soybeans
South Korea's growth has resulted from an economic system described as:
state capitalism
The belt of river lowlands that extends across northern South Asia lies between _________ and ________.
the Himalaya and the Deccan Plateau
Figure 8-4 shows that the Indus Valley civilization was located in which of South Asia's physiographic regions?
the River Lowlands
India today is probably in the ______ stage of its demographic transition.
third
