Online Quizzes Flashcards
Contagious diffusion is strongly associated with local distance effects, whereas hierarchical diffusion often involves the leapfrogging of innovations among widely separated places. True/False
True
Japan’s natural landscapes:
are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium
Taiwan was invaded by the Communist Chinese in 1945.
False
Biogeography is divided into the fields of climatology and geomorphology.
True/False
False
The largest oil reserves in the realm are located in:
Saudi Arabia
In Iraq, the Shi’ite population is concentrated in:
Southeast
For many years, Australia had an immigration policy that:
Allowed only white people to enter the country
More than half of Southeast Asia’s population lives in which two countries?
Indonesia and the Philippines
Native Australians are known as:
Aborigines
A former Portuguese colony that is the newest state in Southeast Asia is:
East Timor
Darfur Province, the recent scene of a massive ethnic cleansing, is located in the central-west of:
Sudan
The concept that indicates that destabilization in one area will eventually affect neighboring areas is known as the:
Domino Theory
Which of the following mother country-colony associations is incorrect?
Netherlands–Brunei
Wallace’s Line refers to:
the line separating Australian animal species from non-Australian species
The empire that ruled over much of Southwest Asia prior to World War I was the:
Ottoman Empire
Hydraulic civilization theory holds that:
Cities able to control irrigated farming over large hinterlands hold power over other cities
Which of the following is true?
While much of interior Australia is desert, most of interior New Zealand is mountainous.
Today, more than 80 percent of all Muslims are Sunnis. True/False
True
Which of the following is not included in the North Africa/Southwest Asia realm?
Pakistan
The two core areas of Vietnam are centered at:
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
The first stage in boundary evolution is:
Definition
The leader of the legendary Long March through interior China was Mao Zedong True/False
True
Vietnam constitutes an elongated state.
True/False
True
A boundary is actually marked on the ground during the stage called:
demarcation
Iran differs from most of the North Africa/Southwest Asian realm in that:
Predominately Shi’ite
Mao Zedong’s proclamation creating the communist People’s Republic of China was announced in:
1949
The Australian capital city is:
Canberra
Thailand is a good example of an elongated state.
True/False
False
The capital of Japan was moved:
from Kyoto to Tokyo by the Meiji rulers
China’s total area is:
Slightly larger than the United States
The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as:
Marsupials
The SEZ located closest to China’s largest city, Shanghai, is:
Pudong
Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Israel?
Iran
The two major cities on the North China Plain are:
Beijing and Tianjin
The fortified political boundary separating the two Koreas has done little to halt trade and population movements between the two political entities. True/False
False
The island across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is called:
Tasmania
Three countries located on the Malay Peninsula are:
Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar
New Zealand’s largest ethnic minority group, whose roots are Polynesian, is known as the:
Maori
Xizang:
All of the above
The vast interior rural area of Australia is known as the:
Outback
