Geography – Flashcards
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a plentiful supply of water
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What is the dominant factor that determines where people live in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
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a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land
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What is physiological density?
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Libya
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Colonel Muammar al-Qadadafi was recently killed in the city of Sirte. He was that former leader of which North African country?
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It established Israel within Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people
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What was the goal of the Balfour Declaration?
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an irrigation system, developed in Iran, that taps into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels
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What is a "qanat"?
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the urban center of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque and bazaar
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What is a medina?
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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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Which of the following religions arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia?
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False
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Shiite Islam is the dominant form of islam in terms of followers worldwide?
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a harmful parasitic disease spread by waterborne snails
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What is schistosomiasis?
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It is the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident
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Why is the city of Chernobyl well-known?
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European Russia is better suited for agriculture
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What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?
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Siberia
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In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union's Gulag Archupelago located?
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an art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or struggling against capitalism
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What was social realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain?
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consistently declining population
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What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the Soviet Union?
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Russification has been reversed, greater numbers of Russians are leaving these areas because of stricter citizenship and language requirements and are returning to Russia
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Since the collapse of the Soviet union, what has become of the processor Russification within former Soviet republics?
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The Soviet Union severely discouraged and even persecuted religious practice
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What was the policy of the former Soviet Union regarding religion within its borders?
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True
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Russian mafia prison tattoos can indicate the crimes committed and rank in organization
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exclave
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The region of Kaliningrad is an example of an _______, a piece of nation territory that exists separate from the majority of a country's land
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Large-scale irrigation projects implemented by the Soviets in the 1950's have diverted water from the two rivers that feed the sea
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What is the primary reason for the shrinking of the Aral Sea?
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Han Chinese from China
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Since the 1960s, from which group has the largest proportion of migrants to Tibet and the western provinces of China come from?
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Lamaist Buddhism
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Followers of which religion in Central Asia suffered brutal prosecution when China invaded Tibet?
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in the area between the mountains slopes and the Taklaman desert
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In the Tarim Basin, where do most of the people reside?
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Salinization, Desertification, Deiceation
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What are three problems of arid environments?
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a fundamentalist Islamic group in Afghanistan
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What is the Taliban?
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization "Shanghai Six"
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What is the name for the organization in Central Asia that acts as a counterweight to the US in international policy?
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low population density
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Why is the environment in Central Asia relatively clean?
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Afghanistan
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Of all the Central Asian countries, which one has the worst overall composite record of social indicators?
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Hydroelectricity reduces the nation's dependence on coal power, which is causing widespread air pollution in the country
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What is an environmental benefit of constructing the massive Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project?
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to move their pollution generating activities to countries that have less stringent environmental standards (pollution exporting)
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As nations such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have industrialized, what strategy have they used to address their air pollution problems?
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a landscape that has been heavily transformed by human activities
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What is an anthropogenic landscape?
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sediment load
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What do we call the quantity of suspended clay, silt, and sand in water (especially in rivers)?
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ideographs
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What writing system forms the basis for the writing throughout East Asia?
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Japan
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Which country in East Asia experienced a devastating earthquake that resulted in a massive tsunami, almost 16,000 deaths, and nuclear plant meltdowns?
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Mandarin
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What is both "the common language" and the national language of China?
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Feng Shui (geomancy)
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What is the name of the belief system that deals with designing buildings and placing objects on the landscape in accordance with the spiritual powers that course through the local topography?
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Super-conurbation
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Several of Japan's cities are experiencing this phenomenon, defined as the "massive urban agglomeration that results from the coalescing (merging) of two or more formerly separate metropolitan areas"
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The Maldives
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What country of south Asia has the greatest reason to be concerned about global warming?
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It was the site of a 1984 explosion at a fertilizer factory that killed 1,000s of people
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Why is Bhopal, India known?
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north of South Asia
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Where do the Himalayan Mountains lie, relative to South Asia?
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sprawling squatter settlements in South Asia
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What are bustees?
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It is named after a Hindu goddess
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What is the source of the place name "Mumbai"?
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the area of low rainfall found on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range
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What is the rain-shadow effect?
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Dalits
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What is the name for India's secluded or untouchable class?
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a rebel force in Sri Lanka
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What are the Tamil Tigers
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British East India Company
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What private trade organization entered into South Asia colonial times and came to control most of the region?
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rabbits
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Which exotic animal was introduced in Australia by Europeans, reached plague proportions, and was finally brought under control only after the purposeful introduction of a virus, myxomatosis, that affected only this particular species?
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Australia's huge, dry interior
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What is the "outback"?
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grapes
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Viticulture refers to the growing of what crop?
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an earthquake
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What causes a tsunami?
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Australia
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What is the largest country (in terms of land area as well as population) in the region encompassing Australia and Oceania?
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to promote immigration of (white) North Americans and Europeans to Australia
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What was the purpose of the White Australian Policy?
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the legacy of nuclear testing
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Why have residents of the Marshall Islands been displaced over the past few decades?
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Australia
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In which country are Aborigines the indigenous people?
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New Zealand
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In which country are Maoris are the indigenous people?
