Final Flashcards
(100 cards)
1
Q
A major __ of Laos is electricity
A
Export
2
Q
An insect that carries a disease from one host to another is known as a ___
A
vector
3
Q
Australia’s population is about __ of California’s Population
A
60%
4
Q
The world’s most active volcano is located in __
A
Hawaii
5
Q
The principle religion of Bali, Indonesia is __
A
hinduism
6
Q
__ of New Zealand’s land area is devoted to pasture
A
half
7
Q
Kemal Ataturk moved the capital of Turkey to Ankara, in the center of the country, to remind Turks they were Anatolians.
A
true
8
Q
If the Antarctic ice sheet were to melt, world sea level would ___ by over 200 feet.
A
rise
9
Q
. The “Opium Wars” were fought over
the ____
A
import of Indian opium to
China.
10
Q
Malays are mostly __
A
Muslims
11
Q
Nepal, dominated physically by the
Himalaya Mountains, is 90% Hindu
and very poor, and has problems of
deforestation.
A
true
12
Q
. The term for the seasonal flow of
warm, moist ocean air into South
Asia is ___
A
wet monsoon.
13
Q
Of India’s over 1 billion population,
over___
A
150 million are Muslims.
14
Q
The \_\_\_\_ of the 1960s introduced "miracle" varieties of wheat and rice that significantly increased the productivity of these crops.
A
Green Revolution
15
Q
Both Gandhi and Nehru tried to lessen discrimination against the untouchables, the lowest caste. The caste system is strongest in rural areas, and may have an ancient racial basis
A
true
16
Q
The partitioning of Hindu India from
Muslim Pakistan occurred in ___
A
1947
17
Q
Carpets, cotton textiles and rice are
major contributors to the Pakistani
economy, ____
A
but not oil production
18
Q
The Sikh population is concentrated
in the ____
A
Punjab.
19
Q
The official language of India, one of
14 given national status, is ___
A
Hindi.
20
Q
India is probably in the ___
of the demographic transition.
A
third stage
21
Q
About ____ of Pakistan is Shiite
A
20%
22
Q
____ has been imposed in
Northern Nigeria.
A
Sharia Law
23
Q
The primate city and capital of North
Korea is _____
A
Pyongyang.
24
Q
____ owns the Suez Canal.
A
Egypt
25
The capital of Kenya, which is today
marked by a modern CBD with
skyscrapers, is ___
Nairobi.
26
Over a million people of Indian
descent reside in South Africa, most
of them near the city of ____.
Durban
27
```
Taiwanese have a higher per capita
income than Mainland Chinese.
Taiwan’s capital is Taipei, and its
highest peak is over 12,000 feet. A
main export is personal computers
```
true
28
. The purpose of the Berlin
| Conference of 1885 was to ______
divide Africa among European powers
29
A common language, used by
speakers of different languages to
communicate, is a _____
lingua franca
30
The prophet Muhammad lived from
| _____
570 A.D. to 632 A.D.
31
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is at its
| worst in _____
Southern Africa.
32
Africa’s climate and vegetation
regions are arranged symmetrically
around the ____
Equator
33
“Jakota Triangle” refers to______
three
countries that developed strong,
modern economies
34
```
. Mongolia, a buffer state between
Russia and China, was guided in its
development for 60 years by the
Soviet Union. It became independent
from China in 1911 and wishes to
remain independent.
```
TRUE
35
Historically, China's most influential
philosopher and teacher was
_____
Confucius
36
Early African civilizations included
Ghana, Mali, and Zimbabwe, but not
_____
Toltec
37
A city whose role may change as a result of the Three Gorges Dam and may become the number one growth pole of China's interior is ____
Chongqing
38
The Kanto Plain is the site of ___
Tokyo
39
___ were found at the
| confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers, changing the economic geography of South Africa
Diamonds
40
Shanghai lies near the mouth of the
| _____.
Chang-Yangzi River
41
Most people in west Africa live near
| the ____
seacoast
42
The "Golden Triangle" is located at
| the borders of _____
Myanmar, Laos, and
| Thailand
43
The genetic classification of
boundaries relates the political
boundary's creation to ____
```
the stage of
development of the cultural
landscape in the boundary area at
the time the boundary was laid
down.
```
44
Muslims believe Jesus was a ____.
great
| prophet
45
The Islamic group called the Taliban
| ruled ___ until 2001.
Afghanistan
46
The country with the largest oil
| reserves in the Middle East is ____.
Saudi
| Arabia
47
The Southeast Asian country with an
| elongated morphology is ____
Vietnam
48
The most fertile part of Algeria is
| known as ___
The Tell.
49
___ does not lie in the Fertile
| Crescent
Oman
50
____ is located closer to
Southeast Asia's vitally important
Strait of Malacca than is Manila,
Bangkok, or Jakarta.
Singapore
51
The group forming a significant part
of the commercial class in Southeast
Asia is the ____
Chinese
52
The country that controls the
Musandam Peninsula, controlling the
entrance to the Persian Gulf, is
____
Oman.
53
Singapore, a former ___,
is on a small island off Southeast
Asia and ____
British Colony
has a large Chinese
population.
54
The main religion in the Philippines
| is ____
Roman Catholicism.
55
The Great Bantu Migration began
thousands of years ago in the region
of ___
Nigeria.
56
About ___ of Australians live in
| cities or towns.
89%
57
Australia’s major trading partner is
| ______.
Japan
58
Aborigines came to Australia ____
| years ago
50,000
59
Most of the core area of Australia is
| in the ____ part of the country.
southeast
60
The animals found in Australia who
carry their young in pouches are
collectively known as _____
marsupials
61
The Eddie Mabo ruling in Australia
| deals with the rights of ____
Aborigines
62
Wallace’s Line refers to ______
the line
separating Australian species from
non-Australian species.
63
Australia is seeing its most
significant growth in immigration
from ____
East Asia.
64
Great Barrier Reef, built by sea
animals called coral polyps, is over
1,000 miles long of the coast of
Queensland, however, _____.
half its coral
| has died in the past 30 years
65
The largest city of New Zealand is
| _____
Auckland.
66
When a body of territorial water is
less than 24 miles wide, a ____ is drawn to divide the
overlapping claims.
median
| line
67
The Tasmanian devil, koala, and
Wallaby are marsupial mammals, but
____
the Dingo is not.
68
One consequence of colonial rule in
| Africa is that _____
national boundaries
ignore cultural differences and
similarities.
69
The term for a disease that is
constantly present to a greater or
lesser degree in people living in a
particular location is _____
endemic
70
An indigenous minority group of
Polynesian ancestry in New Zealand
is the _____
Maoris
71
```
The Pacific region called ____
is contained within a huge triangle
whose corners are New Zealand,
Easter Island, and the Hawaiian
Islands.
```
Polynesia
72
```
The UNCLOS allows states to claim
a so-called____ that extends up to 200 nautical
miles from the coast. In this zone,
coastal states can control other
countries’ fishing fleets, exploration,
and other activities.
```
Exclusive Economic
| Zone
73
Papua New Guinea is considered
| part of _____.
Melanesia
74
. The largest city of the Pacific Realm
| is ______.
Honolulu, Hawaii
75
The better-watered volcanic islands,
where the economy is based upon
agriculture, are known as ____
high
| islands
76
____ is located on the Bulge of
| Africa.
Liberia
77
```
On Fiji, South Asians arrived during
the British era to work on the sugar
plantations, and now they dominate
the commercial life of the country.
Most Fiji Melanesians are Christian,
whereas the South Asians are Hindu.
_______
```
Few Australians have retired
| there.
78
Economies of low coral islands are
| most often based on ____
fishing and
| coconuts.
79
The Sahel region is located
immediately ____ of the Sahara
Desert.
south
80
About half of Fiji’s nearly one
| million people are ____
Indian.
81
```
Antarctica, the world’s highest and
driest continent and about the size of
the United States and Mexico
combined, is covered by an ice sheet
averaging over a mile thick.
Ecologically, Antarctica plays a
critical role in the world
environmental system.
```
true
82
The country that gained
independence from the United States
on July 4, 1946 is the ____
Philippines
83
The body of water called the____ separates Honshu from Shikoku
and Kyushu, providing a sheltered
inland shipping channel within
Japan’s core area.
Inland
| Sea
84
The Yellow River (Huang He) and
Yellow Sea derive their color from
____.
soil
85
. The two parties to the Treaty of
| Waitangi in 1840 ___
were Great
| Britain and the Maori.
86
The term ____ is used for
an area of the ocean where all the
rights of a coastal state prevail (its
12-mile zone).
Territorial Sea
87
The city of ____ is located at
the confluence of the White Nile and
the Blue Nile and serves as the
capital of ____
Khartoum
Sudan.
88
The narrow entrance to the Persian
| Gulf is the ____
Strait of Hormuz.
89
The boundary between Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea on New Guinea
is an example of an ___
boundary.
imposed
90
The boundary between Vietnam and
China is an example of a ____
boundary
subsequent
91
. The longest River in Asia is the
| _____
Chang-Yangzi.
92
The main religion in East Timor is
| _____
Roman Catholicism.
93
____ of the
Demographic Transition Model have
the greatest increase in population
Stages II and III
94
New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter
Island are all in Polynesia, but not
____
Guam.
95
Mount Everest is located on the
| border of ____
Nepal and China
96
The Gobi Desert lies between China
| and ____
Mongolia.
97
The most widely spoken SinoTibetan
| language is ____
Han.
98
About half of Chinese exports come
| from the province of _____
Guangdong.
99
An earthquake and tsunami struck
the ____ on March
11, 2011
east coast of Honshu
100
Antarctica has ____
no capital.
