As demand for petroleum decreases in Europe, which region of the world is Russia turning to as a potential export market?
What is East Asia
100
Due to their reliance on this country, many Central Asian countries are rebuilding their economies after its disintegration.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
Describe pollution exporting
Companies locating factories to foreign countries where industrial pollution occurs and remains an environmental problem for the foreign host country
100
With over 500 million native speakers, this Indo-European language is the most common language in South Asia.
What is Hindi?
100
This entertainment industry in India is rapidly gaining popularity in the South Asia region.
What is Bollywood?
200
What is the dominant language family spoken in the Russian domain?
What is Slavic
200
Xinjiang province in China has seen ethnic protests and riots between these groups of people.
What are Muslims and Han Chinese immigrants?
200
List 3 environmental threats to Japan
What is tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, nuclear contaminants
200
What are the two largest religions seen in South Asia?
Islam and Hinduism. Others include Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity.
200
Headed by the Dalai Lama, this set of semi-religious practices is popular in Mongolia and an autonomous region of China.
What is Tibetan Buddhism?
300
Russia feels threatened by Eastern European countries becoming members in which supranational organization?
What is NATO
300
Once larger than Lake Michigan, extensive irrigation has reduced the size of this water body.
What is the Aral Sea?
300
List two effects of China’s one child policy
What is possible labor shortages, gender imbalance (more guys than girls), decrease in social services for elderly
300
This dominant climatic event happens twice a year in most of South Asia.
What is a monsoon?
300
What are the pros and cons of a national language for India?
What is pro there is a common language for school, business, and government. Con = there is so much linguistic diversity that it would be difficult to implement and would cause social unrest
400
What is the Commomwealth of Independent States?
What is the successor organization to the USSR. Has less power and importance than USSR and not all former USSR members are in the CIS?
400
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, is a forward capital. This type of capital is characterized by what?
Creation on the peripheral area of a country to solidify power there.
400
List three geographic regions in East Asia that are sources of geopolitical tensions
What is South China Sea (spratly islands) East China Sea (Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, Taiwan), North Kora, Kuril Islands, Aksai Chin Region
400
The end of British occupation in South Asia led to the separation of these groups, leading to the creation of these new countries.
What are Hindus, Sihks, and Muslims; What are India and Pakistan?
400
What is the Caste System and what are its consequences?
What is A rigid social hierarchy in south asia based on family status. Can result in generational poverty, unequal access to school, discrimination, violence
500
Provide 3 causes of Russia’s population decline from low birth rates and rising death rates?
What is economic uncertainty, decline in women’s health, murder, suicide, alcoholism, social unrest
500
Much of the urbanization in Central Asia is based around alluvial fans. What is an alluvial fan?
A fan-shaped deposit of sediments dropped by streams flowing out of the mountains.
500
How does the communist government in China affect china’s urbanization patterns
What is more orderly and controlled, eliminates the occurrence of slums.
500
It has been possible to feed the rapidly growing population in South Asia through the agricultural research done by this movement in the 1960s.
What is the Green Revolution?
500
What are some effects of countries having borders drawn by outside powers with no regard to physical or cultural landscapes
What is can cause internal strife with different ethnic, linguistic, religious groups being put in the same country while not identifying as 1 country