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Geography #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Southern China's climate is | Tropical rainforest |
| East Asian storms similar to hurricanes are called... | typhoons |
| All parts of China have a dense population. T or F | false |
| China's main source of energy is | coal |
| The main cause of urban air pollution in China is | use of coal as fuel |
| _______ has acted as a buffer between China and Russia. | Mongolia |
| Because of the one-child policy, China's population is no longer growing. T or F | False |
| When the Communists were victorious over the Nationalists in 1949, the defeated Nationalists fled to | Taiwan |
| The country with the highest rate of sustained economic growth between 1980 and 2000 is | China |
| The part of China that is experiencing the greatest economic growth is | the coast |
| The first Chinese product that the British East India Company purchased was | tea |
| The Communist government of China at first patterned the country's development on that of | The Soviet Union |
| Most investment in the early years of the People's Republic of China went into | manufacturing |
| The British gained the island on which Hong Kong is located by the Treaty of | Nanjing |
| A boundary dispute in which there are no land boundaries concerns | The Spratley Islands |
| In 1910 Korea was annexed by | Japan |
| North Korea's economy collapsed after the end of subsidies by | The Soviet Union |
| A major population challenge in Japan is | the aging population |
| Why did American markets opened to Japanese goods following World War II? | the Cold War / Communist takeover in China / Korean War |
| What are factors in the recovery of the Japanese economy in the 1950s? | American aid / Contracts during the Korean War / Lack of need to invest in the military |
| The common term "Middle East" for Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia reflects the worldview of | Europe |
| Which of the following statements is not true of deserts? It never rains in deserts / Winter and nighttime can be cold / Evaporation exceeds precipitation. / The lower the average rainfall, the greater the variability | It never rains is false |
| What separates the Persian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman? | Strait of Hormuz |
| Water supplies in Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia include | rain and snowfall feeding rivers / underground reservoirs that accumulated millennia ago / desalination |
| The major cause of population concentrations in Arabic countries is | water availability |
| Material wealth generated by oil revenues is unevenly distributed both between and within countries. T or F | True |
| Which major religion did not originate in Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia? | Hinduism |
| The holy book of Islam is called the | Qu'ran |
| The preferred language of the Qu'ran and Muslim prayers is ________ | Arabic |
| The predominant language in Northern Africa is the | Arabic |
| One of the Five Pillars of Islam is making a pilgrimage to Mecca which is located in this country | Saudi Arabia |
| The people of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, western Iran, and parts of Syria that press for a state of their own are the | Kurd |
| The main language in Iran is | Farsi |
| The majority and ruling group in Iran today is | Shiite Muslims |
| The majority of Muslims are _______ | Sunni |
| All of the following are oil rich countries except what? Yemen / Saudi Arabia / Iraq / United Arab Emirates | Yemen |
| The largest Arab country in population is | Egypt |
| _____ is a very old Christian group that make up a sizable minority in Egypt. | Coptic Christianity |
| The global choke point that Egypt controls is | Suez Canal |
| Israel claims ____________ as its capital, but other countries do not recognize it. | Jeruselum |
| The leader under whom the Soviet Union was organized in 1922 was | Vladimir I. Lenin |
| The leader that created the Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps" also known as "gulag" was " | Joseph Stalin |
| Perestroika, or restructuring, under Gorbachev resulted in ________ | an economic crisis. |
| Under central planning, how are decisions regarding production made? | government decree |
| Soviet planners often located industrial centers for _______ rather than _________ reasons. | political / economic |
| Which of the following is not true about Russia's role in the world?: It is a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations. / It no longer attends meetings of the Group of 8 / It has a strong capitalist economy. / It is a nuclear power. | It has a strong capitalist economy |
| The Andes Mountains are the ________ highest mountain range in the world. | second |
| The world's largest river (in volume) is the | Amazon |
| Most of the soils in the Amazon Basin are fertile. T or F | False |
| Under the Monroe Doctrine, the United States warned | European countries not to interfere in Latin America |
| The city with the worst air pollution problems in Mexico is | Mexico City |
| The program that makes it possible to build manufacturing assembly plants in northern Mexico is called | maquiladora |
| In former British, French, and Dutch Caribbean islands, the dominant ancestry is | African |
| Concerns about development in the Amazon include | the welfare of the Indians / failure of settlers to grow crops on their land / destruction of the rain forest |
| Brazil was 90% dependent on foreign energy sources in the mid-1970's and continues to be. T or F | It was, but not anymore |
| How is population distributed across China? | most people are along the coasts, and especially in the Northeastern part of China. |
| What fuel does China use the most of and how does it affect the environment? | they use fossil fuels and it causes lots of CO2, air pollution, and water pollution. Their regulations are very lax |
| Is China’s population growing or shrinking? | growing |
| What form of transportation dominated during the industrial revolution in East Asia? | railroad |
| What is happening to Japan’s population | They have a large number of eldery. This is causing strain on pension and leisure provisions and medical costs |
| Where is the population of this region concentrated? | near the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the Persian Gulf, and in the fertile valleys of the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates rivers |
| How do the different sub-regions get their water? | North Africa sticks to coasts, Nile River Valley uses Nile River, Arab Southwest Asia surrounded by water sources (Fertile Crescent), Israel/Palestinian Territories uses the Mediterraean sea, and Turkey and Iran has mountains that cause precipitation |
| How does access to oil as a natural resource affect each country? | if a country has oil deposits, they are much more likely to have a good economy and be higher on the economic scale |
| What religions started in Northern Africa and Southwestern Asia and what religion is practiced by the majority of the population? | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were started here, Islam is the most popular |
| What is the ethnicity, language, and religion of the majority of Iranians? | Persians, Farsi (Persian), and Islam |
| Who are the Kurds? | Muslims who live in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran who are not Arabs |
| What is the name of the largest continuous forest in the world? | the taiga across northern Russia |
| How does Russia’s expansion differ from European colonization? | Unlike the European empires, which conquered lands overseas, the Russian Empire conquered peoples and land adjacent to it, extending its borders as it annexed new territories |
| What is central planning? | the Soviet practice in which the government decided how many goods and services were needed by society, almost without cost considerations |
| Define Glasnost and Perestroika | glasnost is the policy designed to create greater openness and exchange of information and perestroika is economic restructuring |
| Where is the population of Russia concentrated? | Western Russia (continue eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway) |
| How were the Andes Mountains formed? | The South American Plate overrides the Nazca Plate in a convergent boundary, causing mountains |
| By ______, the Amazon River is the largest river in the world. | volume |
| Why aren’t the soils of the rain forest very fertile? | they are low in plant nutrients because of commercial agriculture as well as deforestation |
| What is the Monroe Doctrine? | US asserted its fole as the geopolitical leader of the Western Hemisphere and the Americas in particular |
| What are assembly plants along the US-Mexican border called? | maquila |
| What forces drive deforestation in the Amazon? | The Brazilian government remains committed to developing the Amazon River basin meaning road construction, forest clearing and burning for crops that don’t grow |
| How is Brazil energy independent today? | made an ethanol fuel program using sugarcane in 1975. The government invested in sugar mills and other technologies, cars were capable of running on ethanol/gas mixed fuel, and this became the only fuel sold |
| Most of the rainfall in South Asia comes in _______ | summer with monsoons |
| An unresolved boundary dispute in South Asia pertains to | Kashmir |
| The dominant people in southern Afghanistan are the | Pashtuns |
| After 1979 the U.S. backed Mujahideen fought troops of the Soviet Union and then each other for control of Afghanistan. true or false | TRUE |
| The main product that brought India into the global economy in the late 1800s was | cotton |
| The leader who conducted a nonviolent campaign for Indian independence in the 1900s was | Mahatma Ghandi |
| The sacred river to the Hindus is the | Ganges |
| In population, India ranks _________ in the world. | Second |
| In 2010 India's total GDP was __________ in the world. | fourth |
| ________ was set up by the British in the late 1800s to be a buffer between the British Indian Empire and the expanding Russian empire. | Afghanistan |
| Because of their dependence on one or a few export crops, the Central American countries are sometimes called | banana republics |
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