Download Name:

Unit 12 Test Review
East / SE Asia
1. How have the people of East Asia modified/adapted to their environment to maximize agricultural
production?
Because so much of the land is unusable, the farmers have to use terrace farming.
2. What physical process created much of the landforms of East Asia?
The collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
3. What is the Ring of Fire? What occurs along the Ring of Fire? Where is the Ring of Fire located?
A ring of volcanic mountains surrounding the Pacific Ocean. Volcanoes and Earthquakes.
Surrounds the Pacific Ocean.
4. What European countries were involved in the colonization of East Asia?
Portugal, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Spain
5. What type of climates are you going to find in the following parts of East Asia:
a. West and Southwest: Highlands
b. Central: Arid in the central part, semi-arid in the north central part
c. Northeast: Humid continental
d. East: Humid subtropical
6. What belief systems, religions, originated in China?
Confucianism and Daoism
7. What was the Great Leap Forward program? Who instituted it? What were the results of the Great Leap
Forward?
Mao Zedong’s plan to change China into a modern country by increasing the population, increasing
the production of steel and capital goods, and increasing agricultural productivity by forming
collective farms and people’s communes. Mao Zedong. China’s population more than doubled in 40
yrs. – went from 550 million to 1.1 billion, production did NOT increase and China could not support
a population that big.
8. Who succeeded Mao Zedong? What were the results of his 4 modernizations?
Deng Xiaoping. Uneven growth and income gap, urbanization, urban poor, crime, corrupt police, the
economy quadrupled and daily life improved.
9. What are the Special Economic Zones of SE China? Why were they created by the Chinese government?
Geographical regions that have economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than
China’s typical or national laws. To attract foreign companies, technology, and capital.
10. How can the Chinese language be described?
Ideograms, not phonetic, symbols represent ideas or things. Need to learn 2,000-3,000 symbols to be
able to read a newspaper, and learn 20,000+ symbols to master the language.
11. What area of China has the highest population density? Why?
East and Southeast. Because of its farming and climate.
12. List five (5) policies / regulations that China has instituted to slow down the population growth of China?
a. Creating one child/birth policy
b. Marketing to promote the positive aspects of only having one child
c.
Increased taxes
d. Fines
e.
Loss of job and social respect
13. Describe how the Korean War started. How long did it last? What were the results? How can relations of
the Korean Peninsula be described today?
North Korea launched a surprise attack on South Korea. 3 years. 4 million people died; there is a
cease-fire treaty in place, and a demilitarized zone on the 38th parallel. Still divided and still hostile.
14. What is North Korea like today?
Very sparsely populated, cold climate, rural, mountainous, Communist, isolated and secretive, has a
low standard of living.
15. What is South Korea like today?
Very densely populated, mild climate, fewer mountains, and has arable land.
16. How can the physical geography of Japan be described? Culture?
It’s an archipelago about the size of California made up of almost 4,000 islands (4 large and 3,900
small), subject volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons due to it’s location on the “ring of
fire”, temperate climate, mountainous, little arable land, and isolated by dangerous seas.
Homogenous, middle class, highly educated, nuclear families, crowded urban areas.
17. How have the Japanese adapted to their environment and their high population density?
They build up and underground, they have building land in the deltas and wetlands, they terrace,
their apartments are smaller than a typical American family room, they have multiple use rooms with
futons that can double as beds, they have tiny appliances, and trees (bonsai), are cremated when they
die, and stay in capsule hotels.
18. Which religions spread to South East Asia from India, South West Asia, and Europe?
Buddhism, Islam, Christianity
19. What natural resource supports the economy of Brunei?
Oil
20. What type of economic activity are most South East Asians involved in?
Subsistence farming and fishing
21. Which ecosystem is most common in Vietnam?
Tropical Rainforest
22. What do most Vietnamese people, who live along the Mekong and Red River, do to adapt to their
environment?
Put their houses on poles
23. What are the 10 geographic qualities of South East Asia?
Land (peninsulas and islands), culture (different languages and religions), powerful foreign
influences, political instability and conflict, dense population even in rural areas, poor
communication within the region, agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, no dominant state,
emergence of Newly Industrialized Countries i.e. Singapore, former colonial domination of the region.
24. How does Singapore differ from the rest of South East Asia?
It is a small, but wealthy country.
25. How can the physical geography of South East Asia be described?
Two rivers dominate: Mekong and Irrawaddy, volcanic archipelagos, tropical rainforests