Southeast Asia: Ch 29 and 30

Question 1

Cordilleras

Answer 1

Parallel mountain ranges and plateaus

Question 2

Archipelagoes

Answer 2

Group of islands

Question 3

Which peninsulas make up Southeast Asia?

Answer 3

Indochina and Malay

Question 4

What is the other name for Malay Archipelago?

Answer 4

East Indies

Question 5

How many mainland countries are there?

Answer 5

11

Question 6

Which countries lie on the Indochina peninsula?

Answer 6

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar

Question 7

What countries share the Malay Peninsula?

Answer 7

Malaysia and Thailand

Question 8

Insular

Answer 8

Insland

Question 9

What are the island countries? (5)

Answer 9

Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines

Question 10

What is the largest island country and how many islands does it have?

Answer 10

Indonesia; 13,500

Question 11

Which country is now fully independent?

Answer 11

East Timor

Question 12

Where does Singapore lie?

Answer 12

South off the tip of the Malay Peninsula

Question 13

What do mountains do?

Answer 13

Create geographical and political boundaries

Question 14

Which cordilleras run north to south?

Answer 14

Arakan Yoma Range, Bilauktaung Range, and the Annam Cordillera

Question 15

Ring of Fire

Answer 15

Area of volcanic and earthquake activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean

Question 16

How many volcanoes stretch across Indonesia?

Answer 16

327

Question 17

Mount Pinatubo

Answer 17

1991, one of the twentieth centuries most powerful eruptions, north of manila

Question 18

What are waterways relied for?

Answer 18

Transportation, communication, and food

Question 19

Mainland rivers include:

Answer 19

Irrawaddy River, Chao Phraya River, and Red River

Question 20

Mekong River

Answer 20

2,600 miles, from China draining into Vietnam, splits Thailand and Laos

Question 21

Flora and Fauna

Answer 21

Plants and animals

Question 22

Malaysia’s major export

Answer 22

Petroleum

Question 23

Which country in the region is part of OPEC?

Answer 23

Indonesia

Question 24

Government control of key industries has led to what?

Answer 24

The mismanagement of resources and a black market economy

Question 25

Tropical wet climate

Answer 25

Little variation in temperature; mostly wet conditions year-round; 79-188 inches of rain

Question 26

Endermic

Answer 26

Those native to a particular area

Question 27

Singapore was once what?

Answer 27

An island covered by dense rain forest and surrounded by mangrove trees

Question 28

Tropical dry climate

Answer 28

Southward; alternate wet and dry seasons; supports tropical grasslands, scattered trees and some forests; May to September, summer monsoon brings rain; November to April, winter dry season

Question 29

Which countries have a humid subtropical climate?

Answer 29

Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

Question 30

Which tectonic plates formed Southeast Asia?

Answer 30

Eurasian, Philippine, and Indo-Australian

Question 31

What happened 2,500 years ago?

Answer 31

Groups of migrants from western China and eastern Tibet arrived in the region

Question 32

Where did the Khmers settle?

Answer 32

Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand

Question 33

Where did the Mons move to?

Answer 33

Thailand and Myanmar in AD 1000s

Question 34

Where do the Thai people descend from?

Answer 34

Southwestern China

Question 35

Who do the Lao people descend from?

Answer 35

Thai people

Question 36

What country has the lowest population density?

Answer 36

Laos

Question 37

What country has the highest population density?

Answer 37

Vietnam

Question 38

Where is population concentrated and why does it attract people?

Answer 38

In fertile river valleys or on coastal plains; water, fertile land, transportation, and jobs

Question 39

Where are people moving to and why?

Answer 39

Cities; political conflict, better jobs, and education

Question 40

Primate city

Answer 40

Serves as a country's major port, or economic center

Question 41

What is one effect of migration?

Answer 41

The loss of skilled and educated workers needed to sustain economic growth

Question 42

What did European colonial rule result in?

Answer 42

Struggles for independence and democracy

Question 43

Early people in Southeast Asia were what?

Answer 43

Highly skilled farmers

Question 44

Maritime

Answer 44

Seafaring

Question 45

Funan

Answer 45

Adopted Hinduism, indian model of a centralized gov under one powerful ruler

Question 46

Khmer

Answer 46

Used a complex system of lakes, canals, and irrigation to grow three or four rice crops annually; magnificent architecture; Angkor Wat

Question 47

What did Europeans do?

Answer 47

Spread Christianity, set up spheres of influence, acquired land as colonies

Question 48

Spheres of Influence

Answer 48

Agreed-upon areas of control

Question 49

Buffer state

Answer 49

Neutral territory

Question 50

What kingdom was a buffer state?

Answer 50

Siam (Thailand>

Question 51

What did Southeast Asians do after WWII?

Answer 51

Fought to gain their independence

Question 52

Martial Law

Answer 52

The control and policing of civilians by military rules

Question 53

When did the Vietnam war end and what was the result?

Answer 53

1975; unified under a Communist government

Question 54

When did the Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia?

Answer 54

1975

Question 55

Which countries have a high rate of HIV and AIDS?

Answer 55

Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar

Question 56

What do the languages mostly stem from?

Answer 56

Sino-Tebetan and Mon-Khmer

Question 57

What is the predominant religion?

Answer 57

Buddhism

Question 58

What other religion has a great number of people following it (mainly Chinese)?

Answer 58

Confucianism or Daoism

Question 59

Wats

Answer 59

Temples

Question 60

Where did the indigenous people of Malaysia settle?

Answer 60

Indonesia

Question 61

What happened in the AD 100s?

Answer 61

India introduced Hindu and Buddhist traditions, art forms, and concept of gov that glorified kings

Question 62

Who also influenced the region?

Answer 62

Chinese

Question 63

What did Arab traders introduce?

Answer 63

Islam

Question 64

Where do people mostly live?

Answer 64

Coastal plains where there is a supply of food, transportation, and jobs

Question 65

Which country has the highest population density?

Answer 65

Singapore

Question 66

Urbanization

Answer 66

Shift from rural to urban life

Question 67

Srivijaya controlled when?

Answer 67

AD 600 to 1300

Question 68

What straits did Srivijaya use and how?

Answer 68

Strait of Malacca and Sunda Strait; used its navy; taxed traders who passed through

Question 69

When did Islam spread?

Answer 69

After 1400

Question 70

Netherlands had what?

Answer 70

Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

Question 71

What did the UK control?

Answer 71

Singapore and Brunei

Question 72

What did the US control?

Answer 72

Philippines

Question 73

What did Europeans bring?

Answer 73

Infrastructure and changed economic systems

Question 74

When did East Timor become independent?

Answer 74

2002

Question 75

When did Indonesia move to democracy?

Answer 75

1998

Question 76

Which countries are democratic?

Answer 76

Philippines, Singapore, East Timor

Question 77

Which countries are constitutional monarchies?

Answer 77

Malaysia and Brunei

Question 78

Which country has the largest number of ethnic and linguistic groups? How many?

Answer 78

Indonesia; 300 ethnic groups and 250 languages

Question 79

What is the largest Islam country in the world?

Answer 79

Indonesia