Geography 200, Final

The lava covered plateau that extends across most of southern India is known as the:

The area known as the "land of the five rivers" is:

The periphery of the Deccan plateau is marked by mountain ranges called:

The peoples and languages of southern India are collectively known as:

The first true indigenous empire in India was the:

Telugu, Tamil, Kanarese, and Malayalm are:

Asoka was a believer in:

The power coming through India in the tenth century was:

The direct administration of India by the British government lasted for:

A minority group within India that has been seeking independence are the:

Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Pakistan?
A. Iran
B. Bangladesh
C. China
D. India
E. Afghanistan

Which of the following is not located in Pakistan?
A. Punjab
B. Islamabad
C. Deccan Plateau
D. Baluchistan
E. Sind

What two countries fight over Kashmir?

The forward capital of Pakistan, completed in the 1970s, is:

About ___% of Pakistan is Shi'ite.

The Pathans irredentist movement in the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan is based on cultural affiliations with the neighboring country of:

What is the staple grain in Bangladesh? Pakistan?

The untouchable caste in India is known as the:

India is in the ______ stage of the demographic transition

Agriculture in India:
A. ranks the country third in the wrold in terms of acreage under rice.
B. is rapidly closing the gap between national food needs and grain supplies
C. is marked by the equal division of land among the country's millions of farming families.
D. remains inefficient and tradition-bound, so that yields per worker and per unit area are low
E. remained unaffected by the so-called Green Revolution

Land reform in India:
A. has resulted in the redistribution of land to the peasant farmers
B. significant increases in agriculture production
C. has done away with the problem of land fragmentation
D. never got off the ground
E. all but d above

Eight of the ten costliest natural disasters in the world have struck which country?

The Hindu population of Sri Lanka is called the:

The Tamil and Sinhalese groups are currently in dispute over:

The two countries in the Mountainous North of South Asia are:

China's economy is growing at ___% per year in the 1990s.

China's population is closest to:

China's civilization began under the:

China reached its maximum extent during the ______ Dynasty

The last great dynasty, ending in 1911, was the _______ Dynasty

The principle of extraterritoriality refers to the:

The Portugese possession near the mouth of the Xi River is:

During the period following World War I:
A. the so-called Boxer Rebellion erupted
B. there emerged two powerful governments, one in Beijin and another in Gungzhou
C. the Chinese Communist Party was formed in Shanghai
D. Dr. Sun Yat-sen came to power in Beijing
E. all of the above events took place

The political dominance of one country by another is known as:

The foci of China's two most populous and important regions are:

Which of the following did not happen under Mao?
A. population control
B. government ownership of the means of production
C. collectivization of agriculture
D. health conditions improved
E. All of the above took place under Mao

The Chinese name for the Yellow River is the:

Major iron and steel producing activities occur in:
A. Lhasa
B. Shenyang
C. Beijing
D. Shanghai
E. Xanggang (Hong Kong)

The Huang River:
A. flows from the Loess Plateau eastward toward the East China Sea south of Shanghai
B. flows into the South China Sea
C. almost encircles one of China's driest areas, the Ordos Desert
D. originates in the Tarim Basin
E. drains the Xi River Basin

The two major cities on the North China Plain are:

Central China is dominated by the ______ River.

The Gobi is associated with which region?
a North China
b. Northeast China
c. Inner Mongolia
d. Xinjiang
e. Xizang

The shortest of the three great rivers in China is the ________ River.

The only major Japanese city not along the coast is:

The Japanese Empire began with the conquering of:

Japan's largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area is:

Japan's dominant urban and industrial region which also contains the largest city, is the _____ Plain.

The largest conurbation in Japan is:

The ________ is Japan's Mediterranean.

_______ percent of Japan's labor force is engaged in agricultural production in the 1990s.

The primate city and capital of South Korea is:

The Nationalist leader who led two million refugees to Taiwan during the Communist takeover of the mainland and then established the Republic of China on that island, was:

The attempt to rekindle the revolutionary spirit in China in the 1960s was known as the:

The Special Economic Zone that has been most successful is:

____ percent of China's population live in urban areas.

Which of the following is not a commonly used measure of economic development?
A. per capita energy consumption
B. population density
C. per capita national product
D. productivity per worker
E. literacy rates

Which of the following statements is false?
A. The capital of Australia is Canberra.
B. Most Australians live in rural areas.
C. Australia's total population is modest in size.
D. The largest core area of Australia is on the southeastern coast.
E. Must of Australia is arid or semi-arid.

Which of the following cities is located nearest the Australian capital of Canberra?
A. Auckland
B. Melbourne
C. Oakland
D. Perth
E. Wellington

Most of the core area of Australia is in the:

Australia's big three income earners are:

Which of the following is true?
A. Australia's population is quickly approaching 100 million.
B. Only one-third of Australia's population is of British-Irish origin.
C. The aborigines are gradually losing rights
D. Australia has very few natural resources
E. All of the above are false.

The agricultural activity most closely associated with Australia's moistest environment is:
A. wheat farming
B. sheep raising
C. oasis agriculture
D. dairying
E. growing sugar beets

The Mabo ruling in Australia dealswith the rights of:

Which of the following is true?
A. While much of interior Australia is desert, much of interior New Zealand is moutains.
B. New Zealand is comprised of three large islands
C. The capital of New Zealand is Auckland.
D. Most of New Zealand's population lives in the interior of the country.
E. New Zealand is only about 100 miles from Australia