Geo Module 4 Review

What is China's Population?

What is the name of the world's largest hydroelectric dam under construction?

What was the purposes of the Three Gorges Dam?

What are some problems the Three Gorges Dam is causing?

Where is the Three Gorges Dam located.

Why is the Yellow River called "The river of China's Sorrow"?

This is a fine, wind-blown glacially deposited material. It is fertile but vulnerable to erosion when plowed.

This is one of the poorest parts of China

Is there a lot of forest conservation in China?

Which Asian country has the most forest conservation?

Have the reforestation programs in China been successful?

What may China need to do for development?

What have Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan done control pollution in their countries?

How much of Japan is mountainous?

Describe Japan's Physical environment

Describe the environment of Southern China

Describe Taiwan's environment

Out of North and South Korea, which has better farmlands?

The Koreas are environmentally...

How much of China is urban?

What are the dominant Chinese agricultures and where are they located?

What does anthropogenic landscape mean?

What part of China is most thoroughly anthropogenic?

Which is more populated in density and quantity of people..North or South Korea?

Which is the most densely populated?
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan

What type of products does Japan import?

Since when has China imported foods?

What was China's capital during the Manchu period?

What is the concentration of an urban population in a single city called?

What country is known for Urban Primacy?

What is a huge zone of coalesced metropolitan areas called?

This is a form of writing which uses symbols to represent whole words or ideas.

What is a disadvantage of Ideographic Writing?

What is the advantage to Ideographic Writing?

Which Asian country displays a pattern of Superconurbation?

What happened to the Korean Alphabet in the 1400s?

List the 3 parts of Japan's complex writing system

What is Kanji in Japan's writing system?

What is Hiragana in Japan's writing system?

What is Katakana used for in the Japanese writing system?

This philosophy has a strong influence on the Asian culture

When does Confucianism date back to?

What are the main pillars of Confucianism?

What raised questions in East Asia about the value Confucian ideas in the early 1900s?

What are the main religions prevailing in the East Asian region.

This is the Chinese and Japanese practice of designing buildings in accordance with the spiritual powers that flow through the local topography

This religion is closely bound to Japanese nationality

How much of China and Japan is Christian?

What is the attitude towards secularism in East Asia?

Is East Asia one of the most secular regions in the world?

Does Japanese have relations to any other language?

Are minority groups seen as equals in Japan?

What the Korean Diaspora?

Which ethnic group is the majority in China?

What are the 3 Han languages?

What are the Chinese names for the 3 Han languages?

What is one adjective that describes the Han Chinese languages, and what does it mean?

People who have a traditional social order based on autonomous village communities are called

Is Japanese related to another language..if so which one?

What is a common language in Japan?

When did China begin to liberalize?

What split East Asia (not literally)?

When was China unified?

From when to when was the Manchu Dynasty in power?

Why did the Chinese empire decline in the 1800s?

What did the British use in lieu of silver to buy Chinese goods?

When did Japan emerge as a unified state?

What reunited Japan in the 1600s?

What did the Tokugawa Shogunate?

This is a military leader who theoretically remains under the emperor but who actually holds power

This strengthened the government and economy in 1868

When was Korea divided and by who?

When was Mao Zedong and the communists victorious

When did Hong Kong get reclaimed by China

Name the characteristics of the Chinese military

What is Japan's economy ranked in the world?

List the conditions that characterize Japan today

What are the characteristics of women in Japanese society?

What went into the rise of South Korea?

What was wrong with "The Great Leap Forward"?

What does SEZ stand for?

What do SEZs welcome?

Why do they like to call Manchuria a "rust belt"?

What Chinese policy led to gender imbalance in the nation?

What countries make up South Asia?

What problems does China being the world's 2nd most populous region raise?

Who colonized South Asia for several years?

Which two countries have been embroiled in conflict since receiving their independence in 1947?

What is the name of the interconnecting highway being built in South Asia?

What cities will the Quadrilateral highway connect?

What event killed 2500 people in the region and when?

Which South Asian rivers are prone to flooding during wet summer monsoons?

What expansions are the causes of deforestation in South Asia?

This is precipitation due to uplift and cooling of moist winds.

How many people does India have?

What is the pop. of Pakistan?

What is the population of Bangladesh?

Name 3 characteristics that pertain to Pakistan's populaiton

List 2 characteristics that pertain to India's population

State 4 characteristics that contribute to Bangladesh's population

South Asia is one of the most urbanized regions in the world.
True False

Food production in South Asia has outpaced population growth since the 70s.
True False

Where is rice grown in South Asia?

Where is wheat grown in South Asia?

What is the name of India's "breadbasket"?

What are the three crop zone crops of South Asia?

These are agricultural techniques based on heavy use of hybrid crops, industrial fertilizers, and chemical pesticides

How did India more than double grain production from 1970 to 1990?

What were the costs of the Green Revolution on South Asia?

What percentage of the South Asian people live in urban areas?

What are bustees in South Asia?

These are crude shelters built on sidewalks

What is the name of the largest city in South Asia?

What are the problems with Calcutta?

What is the name of the largest city in Pakistan?

This movement promoted Hindu values as an essential and exclusive fabric of Indian society

This faith is complicated and has no single uniformly accepted belief system

What is Sanskrit?

This is the strict division of Hindu society into ranked hereditary groups

This is the ancient fourfold hierarchy of the Hindu world

This refers to hundreds of local endogamous groups

What Jati groups do Castes include?

What is the major faith of India and Nepal

This is a faith incorporating elements of Hinduism and Islam

What are Sikh men noted for?

This religion emerged around 500 B.C. as protest to orthodox Hinduism

This is an ancient religion focusing on the cosmic struggle between good and evil

This linguistic group is unique to southern India

This is the most widely spoken language in South Asia

This is the language of the Muslim minority

What is linguistic nationalism?

What language did India try to impose as the national language?

What is the main integrating language in South Asia?

Is it normal to see four language signs in South Asia?

During British rule, South Asian workers settled in other British colonies.
True False

Which empire ruled most of South Asia during 1500s?

When did the Mughal empire weaken?

this private organization acted as an arm of British govt and monopolized trade

This led to South Asia being directly ruled by the british

When were political protestors and Ghandi calling for independence?

What type of Indian state did Ghandi favor?

Which ethnic groups does Punjab have?

Which South Asian Prime Minister was assassinated by her own bodyguards in 1984?

What is the name of the rebel force that attacked the Sri Lankan army in 1983?

The Hindu Tamils are the majority group in Sri Lanka...
True False

The Buddhist Singhalese are the majority group in Sri Lanka...
True False

Who did China ally with during the cold war between India and Pakistan?

How much do Indians tend to live on?

What type of stance does butan have?

name some characteristics about Bangladesh's economic development

name some characteristics about Pakistan's economic development

based on GNI, which country is most prosperous in South Asia despite having such a smal economy?

name some characteristics of Sri Lanka's economic development

Which South Asian states showcase the Green Revolution?

What is India's economy based on?

When were regulations reduced in India and the economy liberalized?

Why are literacy rates high in the poor northeast of South Asia?

What do socialist leaders in Kerela promote that gives them the best social development in India

What are gender imbalances in South Asia due to?

This is the area of low rainfall found on the downwind side of a mountain range

Karachi's main conflict is between which two groups?

What is India's guiding political organization?

The sacred language of Hindu is called?

This is the fourfold social heiarchy of the Hindu world

In Hindu, Dalits are

In hindu, these refer to the hundreds of local endogamous (marry within) groups that exist at each Varna level