Geography 3 – Flashcards
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Which of the following is largely responsible for the modern day poltical boundries in south asian realm
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British rule
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What is the name of the disputed territory between Pakistan and India
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Kashmir
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Which of the following explains the connection between high elevation mountains and large rivers in south Asian realm
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Seasonal snow melt
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Which of the following is the first atmospheric condition that leads to the Asian monsoon
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High pressure system develops over the subcontinental
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Which mountain in South Asia has the worlds tallest peak?
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Mount Everest
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What is one explanation for the emergence of social stratification in northern India?
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Solidify powerful positions of Aryans
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What other world realm did Hinduism reach following its birth in and spread across South Asia
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South east Asia
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What groups of people has Buddhism appealed to both in the past and today
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All the above
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What modern day Islamic state was established by Muslims who arrived by sea
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Bangladesh
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Which of the following is an accurate description of the indirect rule strategy employed by the British in South Asia
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Left local rulers in place and coerced them to offer preferable trade agreements.
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What role did South Asia have in Britons industrial revolution
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South Asia supplied raw materials to British industrial revolution
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Which if the following is true about the railroad system in India
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It covered most of the entire country.
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Which of the following sources of tension between India and Pakistan had raised global concern?
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India and Pakistan have been are still in conflict over Jammu and Kashmir
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Why does the United States put pressure on the Pakistani government?
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A efforts to find the Taliban are thwarted by Pakistani inability to secure its border
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How does china offer strategic support to Pakistan to the dismay of India?
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By building hydroelectric dans in Pakistan
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Which of the following statements about the western interior of china is false?
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Much of the area is a flat plain.
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What is name of the thick, wind blown soil formed from pulverize toon by glaciers
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Permadust
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Which of the following is true of the Han dynasty?
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It's the period when China's external trade began and the Chinese sphere of influence expanded
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In what year did Mao Zedong proclaim the creation of the communist peoples republic of china
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1949
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What is China's largest city?
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Shanghai
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Which of the following numbers is closest to China's current population?
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1.3 billion
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Which of the following has not been important in the development of Shenzhen as an sez
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The socialist economic principles
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Which of the following statements about Mongolia is least accurate?
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It can be termed a buffer state
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Which of the following best describes the meji restoration?
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It was the beginning of Japan's modernization and economic and military transformation
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Which of the flowing describes Japan's natural landscapes
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Thy are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium.
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Which of the following statements about Japan is false?
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It was isolated until u.s warships sailed into its harbors in the 1850s
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Which of the following is true of Japan's population?
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It's concentrated along the shore of the sea of japan(East Sea)
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Which of the following is not a contributing factor to Japan's recent economic problems?
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A heavy dependence on foreign oil.
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Which of the following statements about Japan is false
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Japan has numerous ethnic minorities that create significant internal strife.
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Which of the following best describes the outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s
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A military stalemate resulting in the enduring division of the country.
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Which of the following dominates southeast Asian physiography
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High mountains and valleys
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Half of southeast Asia's population lives in which two countries.
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Indonesia and Philippines
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What is the largest Muslim country in the world in terms of population?
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Indonesia
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To what religion do most of the people in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia adhere?
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Hinduism, Buddhism
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The genetic classification of boundaries interprets a boundaries function by examining
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The physical landscape through which it lies, weather that landscape is uniform or complex
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Which country does not border Vietnam?
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Thailand
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Angkor war is located in which country
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Cambodia
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The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million people in an attempt to change the society of
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Vietnam
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Three countries located on the Malay peninsula are
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Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar
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What is the name of the small, oil-rich Islamic sultanate of insular Southeast Asia?
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Brunei
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Which of the following best defines an archipelago?
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A chain of islands
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What is the collective name for the animals found in Australia who carry their young in punches?
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Marsupials
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What is the term for indigenous Australians?
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Aborigines
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Which of the following best defines a territorial sea?
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A adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail
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What is the largest country in Melanesia in terms of territorial size
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New Guinea
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Which pacific region includes the island of New Guinea?
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Melanesia
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Where is the largest cluster of population in Melanesia found?
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Papua New Guinea
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Which of the following is true of the people of new guinea
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They are Polynesians
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What is the term for an area within which the unclos allows states to claim all resources that extend up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts?
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Exclusive economic zone
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When a body of water is less than 24 nautical miles wide, the boundary between the states on each shore is drawn along
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The median line
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Which country temporally withdrew from unclos as a direct result of the independence of East Timor
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Australia
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Which of the following is located in Melanesia?
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Vanuatu
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The better- watered volcanic islands, where the economy is based on agriculture, are known as
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High islands
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Which of the following countries has not made a claim to territory in anarctica.
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The us
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Which of the following is not one of the four major cities of the pacific realm
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Nibok
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The quest for additional mineral deposits has led to the underwater search for so-called massive sulifides, which are enormous concentrations of
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Copper,some gold and silver
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How many miles offshore does an exclusive economic zone extend
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200
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What is the approximate current population of the pacific realm?
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8 million.
