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Section 1
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consistently declining population
What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the Soviet Union?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Which of the following religions arose in North Africa/Southwest Asia?
low population density
Why is the environment in Central Asia relatively clean?
False
Shiite Islam is the dominant form of islam in terms of followers worldwide?
a landscape that has been heavily transformed by human activities
What is an anthropogenic landscape?
True
Russian mafia prison tattoos can indicate the crimes committed and rank in organization
Lamaist Buddhism
Followers of which religion in Central Asia suffered brutal prosecution when China invaded Tibet?
a harmful parasitic disease spread by waterborne snails
What is schistosomiasis?
Large-scale irrigation projects implemented by the Soviets in the 1950's have diverted water from the two rivers that feed the sea
What is the primary reason for the shrinking of the Aral Sea?
European Russia is better suited for agriculture
What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?
Dalits
What is the name for India's secluded or untouchable class?
Australia's huge, dry interior
What is the "outback"?
a fundamentalist Islamic group in Afghanistan
What is the Taliban?
Libya
Colonel Muammar al-Qadadafi was recently killed in the city of Sirte. He was that former leader of which North African country?
to move their pollution generating activities to countries that have less stringent environmental standards (pollution exporting)
As nations such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have industrialized, what strategy have they used to address their air pollution problems?
a population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land
What is physiological density?
Salinization, Desertification, Deiceation
What are three problems of arid environments?
Australia
What is the largest country (in terms of land area as well as population) in the region encompassing Australia and Oceania?
The Soviet Union severely discouraged and even persecuted religious practice
What was the policy of the former Soviet Union regarding religion within its borders?
Russification has been reversed, greater numbers of Russians are leaving these areas because of stricter citizenship and language requirements and are returning to Russia
Since the collapse of the Soviet union, what has become of the processor Russification within former Soviet republics?
Super-conurbation
Several of Japan's cities are experiencing this phenomenon, defined as the "massive urban agglomeration that results from the coalescing (merging) of two or more formerly separate metropolitan areas"
Mandarin
What is both "the common language" and the national language of China?
Feng Shui (geomancy)
What is the name of the belief system that deals with designing buildings and placing objects on the landscape in accordance with the spiritual powers that course through the local topography?
a plentiful supply of water
What is the dominant factor that determines where people live in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
an irrigation system, developed in Iran, that taps into groundwater through a series of gently sloping tunnels
What is a "qanat"?
sediment load
What do we call the quantity of suspended clay, silt, and sand in water (especially in rivers)?
in the area between the mountains slopes and the Taklaman desert
In the Tarim Basin, where do most of the people reside?
a rebel force in Sri Lanka
What are the Tamil Tigers
an art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or struggling against capitalism
What was social realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain?
It was the site of a 1984 explosion at a fertilizer factory that killed 1,000s of people
Why is Bhopal, India known?
an earthquake
What causes a tsunami?
Siberia
In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union's Gulag Archupelago located?
the area of low rainfall found on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range
What is the rain-shadow effect?
rabbits
Which exotic animal was introduced in Australia by Europeans, reached plague proportions, and was finally brought under control only after the purposeful introduction of a virus, myxomatosis, that affected only this particular species?
the urban center of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque and bazaar
What is a medina?
ideographs
What writing system forms the basis for the writing throughout East Asia?
exclave
The region of Kaliningrad is an example of an _______, a piece of nation territory that exists separate from the majority of a country's land
Han Chinese from China
Since the 1960s, from which group has the largest proportion of migrants to Tibet and the western provinces of China come from?
sprawling squatter settlements in South Asia
What are bustees?
It is named after a Hindu goddess
What is the source of the place name "Mumbai"?
The Maldives
What country of south Asia has the greatest reason to be concerned about global warming?
It is the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident
Why is the city of Chernobyl well-known?
It established Israel within Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people
What was the goal of the Balfour Declaration?
grapes
Viticulture refers to the growing of what crop?
Shanghai Cooperation Organization "Shanghai Six"
What is the name for the organization in Central Asia that acts as a counterweight to the US in international policy?
Hydroelectricity reduces the nation's dependence on coal power, which is causing widespread air pollution in the country
What is an environmental benefit of constructing the massive Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric project?
Afghanistan
Of all the Central Asian countries, which one has the worst overall composite record of social indicators?
British East India Company
What private trade organization entered into South Asia colonial times and came to control most of the region?
north of South Asia
Where do the Himalayan Mountains lie, relative to South Asia?
Japan
Which country in East Asia experienced a devastating earthquake that resulted in a massive tsunami, almost 16,000 deaths, and nuclear plant meltdowns?
Section 2
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