Deck 13: Southeast Asia

Question 1

What is transmigration?

A) a migration of refugees from one nation to another.
B) a long period of migration stagnation, when a nation's population remains in one region for a significantly long period of time.
C) a government-implemented policy forbidding emigration from a nation in any form.
D) the forced movement of certain citizens to concentration camps.
E) the relocation of a nation's population from one location to another within its national territory.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

What is the major difference between the two types of tropical climates found in Southeast Asia?

A) the temperature
B) the seasonal distribution of temperature
C) the prevalence of fog
D) the total amount of rainfall
E) the pressure

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following phrases best describes the linguistic geography of Southeast Asia?

A) There are five distinct languages, and each one can be placed in a different language group.
B) There are several hundred distinct languages that can be placed into five major linguistic groups.
C) There are five languages, and they are all in the same language group.
D) Each island has its own unique language family.
E) Because there are so many languages in this region, ASEAN has required that everyone in the region learn English.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What geological feature is associated with the islands of Sumatra,Java,and the Lesser Sunda Islands?

A) petroleum reserves
B) erosion
C) karst topography
D) volcanic activity
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 5

Insular Southeast Asia

A) typically has dry winters.
B) straddles the equator.
C) has few peaks above 5,000 feet.
D) includes about 25 islands.
E) has tremendous temperature variation.

Question 6

What country is the newest country in Southeast Asia?

A) East Timor
B) Burma (Myanmar)
C) Cambodia
D) Malaysia
E) Indonesia

Question 7

Which of the following is relatively common in Southeast Asia?

A) major conurbations
B) a megalopolis
C) counterurbanization
D) primate cities
E) gentrification

Question 8

Plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia

A) focused primarily on rice in the early part of the twentieth century, however rice is no longer grown on plantations in Southeast Asia.
B) now often focuses on specialty crops like pineapples or rubber.
C) was not prominent historically, however it has been growing in importance in recent decades.
D) is no longer practiced to any significant extent in Malaysia.
E) remains as it was 100 years ago.

Question 9

What is the most densely settled island of Indonesia?

A) Borneo
B) Java
C) Sumatra
D) Bali
E) Luzon

Question 10

What country of Southeast Asia has the region's lowest total fertility rate--a rate so low (below replacement level)that without immigration,its population will begin to decline?

A) Burma
B) Cambodia
C) Malaysia
D) Vietnam
E) Singapore

Question 11

About how many distinct languages are spoken in the Philippines?

A) 1
B) 85
C) 100
D) 25
E) 8

Question 12

Under what conditions is swidden agriculture sustainable?

A) when the government intervenes to control land use
B) when private entities purchase land for development, minimizing the acreage of land used for swidden agriculture
C) when population densities remain relatively low and stable, and where practitioners of swidden control an adequate amount of land
D) when there is a large number of people to do the hard, manual labor associated with swidden
E) when long-term weather patterns provide adequate moisture and warmth

Question 13

What type of climate dominates in most of insular Southeast Asia?

A) occasionally hot and humid
B) constantly hot and dry
C) constantly cool and humid
D) constantly cool and dry
E) constantly hot and humid

Question 14

Swidden agriculture

A) has benefited significantly from logging operations.
B) is most common on coastal plains.
C) works best in regions of high population density.
D) usually relies on monocrop production.
E) depletes soil nutrients within a few years.

Question 15

Which country of Southeast Asia has been troubled by tensions from its orthodox Muslim region known as Aceh?

A) Thailand
B) the Philippines
C) Indonesia
D) Singapore
E) Vietnam

Question 16

What environmental damage(s)is(are)often caused by logging in Southeast Asia?

A) erosion
B) destruction of wildlife habitat
C) smoke pollution as cut-over land is burned
D) increased flooding
E) All of the choices are correct

Question 17

According to your textbook,what factor causes Southeast Asia's role in climate change to be larger than it appears at first glance?

A) the region's rapidly growing industrial sector
B) deforestation's effect on greenhouse gases in the region
C) the region's equatorial location
D) the large number of islands in the region
E) the oil industry in the region

Question 18

What is the approximate population of Southeast Asia?

A) 2 million
B) 60 million
C) 130 million
D) 600 million
E) 4000 million

Question 19

The Vietnam War started when which European country tried to retain control of its Southeast Asian colonies?

A) Great Britain
B) Spain
C) France
D) United States
E) Netherlands

Question 20

The Khorat Plateau is composed of __________,and is found in ___________ Southeast Asia

A) granite; insular
B) limestone; mainland
C) volcanic soil; insular
D) sandstone; mainland
E) coral; insular

Question 21

Islam largely replaced Hinduism and Buddhism in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Question 22

Insular Southeast Asia lies in the tropics.

Question 23

A commercial airliner crashed in Southeast Asia during the late 1990s due to terrible air pollution.

Question 24

Because the Dutch had used Indonesia largely for its tropical crops and invested little in transportation,health,or education in this country,Indonesia was extremely poor when it gained its independence from the Netherlands in 1949.

Question 25

Fifty years ago,the Philippines was the most highly developed Southeast Asian country and was considered to have a very bright economic future.However,by the 1980s and 1990s the Philippines' economy took a sharp downturn.Explain the factors that contributed to this nation's economic change.

Question 26

What is the mission of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)?

A) ASEAN was created to promote tourism in the region.
B) ASEAN fosters regional cooperation and regional coherence.
C) ASEAN's primary goal is to clean up the environment in the region.
D) ASEAN was created to improve education in the region.
E) ASEAN is a military alliance (like NATO).

Question 27

In Southeast Asia temperatures are high year-round throughout most of the region,and rainfall is generally plentiful,but varies from place to place.

Question 28

What are the three farming patterns that are found in Southeast Asia,and generally where are each of these patterns found?

Question 29

What is ASEAN's relationship to the United States?

A) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all countries, except the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
B) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, but wants to keep all countries, including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
C) ASEAN wants the United States to help it develop good ties with other countries to encourage international trade.
D) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all countries, including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.
E) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep the United States from having too much influence in the region.

Question 30

Plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia now often focuses on specialty crops like pineapple or rubber.

Question 31

What are the major environmental issues confronting Southeast Asia? How serious are they,and what steps have been taken to deal with them?

Question 32

Why was Indonesia so poor when it gained its independence from the Dutch in 1949?

A) Indonesia had no marketable products.
B) Indonesia had accumulated high levels of international debt.
C) It suffered several years of drought and famine.
D) Civil war drained resources and stifled manufacturing.
E) The Dutch had used Indonesia largely for its tropical crops and invested little in transportation, health, or education in Indonesia.

Question 33

What is(are)the main cause(s)of Burma's (Myanmar's)lack of economic development?

A) internal warfare
B) an international economic embargo
C) economic policy
D) a lack of resources and economic policy
E) internal warfare and economic policy

Question 34

Swidden agriculture restores soil nutrients allowing people to settle in one place for an extended period of time.

Question 35

Within Southeast Asia,transmigration is most commonly practiced in Indonesia.

Question 36

Describe the monsoon climates of Southeast Asia.

Question 37

What country has Vietnam primarily emulated as it works to improve its economy?

A) United States
B) China
C) South Korea
D) Japan
E) India

Question 38

Vietnam is the most urbanized country in Southeast Asia,and is 95 percent urbanized.