PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY/ENVIRONMENT
The geographic feature separating European Russia from Siberia.
Ural Mountains
What is the dominant ethnic group in Sri Lanka?
Sinhalese
____________ is often characterized as a system of social and ethical philosophy rather than a religion dominant in China.
Confucianism
The area fought over by India, Pakistan and China.
Jammu and Kashmir
Describe the concept of centralized planning
the state controls what is produced, where industries are located, policies controlling trade, education etc.
Explain the driving force behind deforestation and habitat loss in the different subregions in Southeast Asia.
Demand for agricultural lands for Palm Oil plantations
Most of India's population is settled in this narrow area
Ganges Plain
The world most populous religion is in South East Asia?
Islam (Indonesia with the largest population)
The least developed country in the region of East Asia is:
North Korea
Who are oligarchs?
Very wealthy businessmen who control important aspects of Russian economy.
A geographic process that makes parts of Central Asia increasingly arid and reduces use of large swaths of land
Desertification.
Single, large urban settlements that overshadow all others in many Southeast Asian countries
Primate Cities
List the major religions found in the South Asia region.
Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Parsi (Zoroastrianism), Sikhism
The disintegration of the _______________ in the year ____________generally proceeded peacefully although a civil war that broke out in Tajikistan that lasted until 1997.
Soviet Union, 1991
Define China’s Rust Belt.
Regions of state-owned heavy industries that are declining due to inefficiencies.
The northern Russia vegetation type commercially harvested for international lumber markets.
Boreal Forest
Describe the reason for the contemporary population distribution we see in the Russian Domain.
Harsh climate of northern Russia and Siberia not suitable for agricultural production and so historically sparsely populated.
Centralized planning created specialized towns in resource rich areas.
Forced migration of cultural groups away from their homelands.
Describe Reverse Russification
A major population shift in post-Soviet era. In many post-soviet countries’ citizenship is now tied to language requirements based on the language of the ethnic majority, meaning that many Russian speakers have moved back to Russia
Two areas of internationally recognized as belonging to other counties which are currently under Russian control or autonomous with Russian protection.
Crimean Peninsula and Eastern Ukraine, Abkhazia, South Ossetia
What are some negative effects of the Green Revolution?
- Pollution of wells and rivers,
- exposure to chemicals,
- increased cost of production and indebtedness of poor farmers
- Soil salinization
Central Asia is characterized by both Dry and Highland climates represented by what letters of climatic classification?
D (BWk for midlatitude desert and BSk for midlatitude steppe) and H (Highland)
What is a Forward Capital City?
Is a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. A forward capital is sometimes used to integrate outlying parts of a country into the state
______________ Languages are one of the world’s most widespread language families in Southeast Asia that extends from Madagascar to most of the Pacific.
Austronesian
The _____________ theory that guided US foreign policy held that if a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow.
Domino theory
Singapore is the regional Hub for economic and development success. The island has transformed itself from ______________ (a place where goods are imported, stored, and then transshipped) to one of the wealthiest and modern states in world today.
Entrepot