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The main character in the movie
Rabbit Proof Fence is of which ethnicity?
three half-caste Aboriginal girls
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Where does the movie Rabbit Proof
Fence take place?
Austrailia
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Traditionally, where did people want
to live?
- Where soil is fertile
- and near water for FARMING
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Now, people are moving to where?
cities
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Which countries do/do not have tropical
rainforests?
- Indonesia, Malasia,
- Phillipeens, Veitnam, Cambodia, Laos, Congo, Tialand, Brazil
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Where do fertile soils come from?
- Rivers, Volcanoes, Glaciers,
- Wind storms
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Fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Very High: some of the highest in the world
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Where, in Africa, is Islam more prevalent?
Nothern Africa
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Makkah (Mecca) is in which country?
Saudi Arabia
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Exotic rivers?
- Rivers that go through
- the desert: NILE, TIGRIS, JORDAN, EUPHRATES
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Which has more pollution problems:
Western or Eastern Europe?
Eastern Euprope
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Which countries were once part of
the Soviet Union?
- CHECK - Russia,
- Belaroos, Ukrane, Maldona, stans (not Pakistan, not Afganistan)
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Literacy rates under the Soviet regime?
Very High
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What's the problem with the Aral
Sea?
Shrinking
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Population density of Central Asia?
Population density of Central Asia
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Is there deforestation in Japan?
- NO – Japan is
- working hard to preserve its forests
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What is China's population quandary?
usually only one child per couple
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The Green Revolution: how important is it in South Asia's ability to feed its population?
- Very important to south Asia – a lot of people not enough food – special crops,
- fertilizers, crops grow fast to feed people
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The main reason for deforestation in Southeast Asia is the desire for which wood?
Teak
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Is there deforestation in Malaysia?
- leading EXPORTER OF TROPICAL
- HARDWOODS, BIG PROBLEM
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Where, in the regions covered in
chapters 13 and 14, would you expect the least amount of rain?
Central part of Australia
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Where does most of the population
live in mainland Southeast Asia?
Near rivers and river deltas
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What were the world's two largest
rice exporters in 2006?
Tialand and vietnam
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Which is the most populous country
in Southeast Asia?
Indonesia
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What percentage of the citizens of
Singapore live in rural areas?
- Close to none (all in
- cities)
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The Vietnam War?
- French colonized Vietnam,
- communism in North, French in South. Fighting (US for South Vietnam),
- DRAFT, Vietnam again became communist
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The domino theory?
- The theory that if you
- let one country go to communism that every country will go
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What is Indonesia's largest source
of tax revenue, and where is it located?
- A gold mine in Western
- New Guinea
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A new country has recently been created
on which island?
- Eastern Timor (used to be
- Indonesia)
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Which regions in Southeast Asia have
tried to secede?
- Western New Guinea, South
- Western Philippines, Southern Thailand, Northern Burma
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The Spratly Islands?
- Small Islands that everyone
- wants because they might have petroleum underneath them
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What is an archipelago?
chain of islands
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What is Oceania's greatest future
environmental threat?
Global Warming = Rising sea levels
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Are rabbits native to Australia?
No
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What are the only native mammals
of New Zealand?
Bats
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The brown tree snake in Guam?
- killed most of the birds,
- power outages by climbing on wires
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What did a geological hot spot create?
created Hawaii
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What is an atoll?
- Volcanic Island starts
- exploding and all that remains is coral reef
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Most of Australia's population is
located in which section of the country?
South Eastern part
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The majority of Australia's population
traces its roots to where?
Britain, Ireland
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Who were the first people to populate
Australia, how long have they been there, and how did they get their
food?
- Aborigines: hunters and
- gatherers
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"Uncontacted peoples:"
where are they?
- Probabably in mountains
- of Papau New Guinea
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The tsunami of December '04 hit the
shores of which countries?
- Indonesia, Sri Lanka,
- Kenya
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The people of which country just
elected a new President? The election is disputed because the military
threw out the last President.
Honduras
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Rebels from which region take responsibility
for bombing a train traveling between Moscow and St. Petersburg?
Chechnya
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