GEOGRAPHY 352
Geography 352 – World Regional Geography
Exam 3 Study Guide
The eventual test will be made up of 70-80 Power Point identification, multiple choice, true/false, matching, and map questions. Not all of the questions below will end up on the final version of the exam.
Power Point Image Identification Section
➢ Match the images on the Power Point slides to the corresponding physiographic regions of South Asia they represent.
➢ Match the images of the three major rivers of South Asia on the PowerPoint slides with their corresponding names.
➢ Match the images of South Asian ecosystems on the Power Point slides with their appropriate name.
➢ Match the images of South Asian holy places on the Power Point slides to the cities in which they are found.
➢ Match the images of East Asian physiographic provinces on the Power Point slides with their corresponding names.
➢ Match the images of East Asian ecosystems on the Power Point slides with their appropriate names.
Multiple Choice, T/F, Matching, and Map Section
➢ Are the Himalayas are volcanic mountains formed by the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates?
➢ ________ means "Land of Five Rivers" and is the ancestral home of the Sikhs.
➢ Which country lies almost entirely in the deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers?
➢ Does India's wet monsoon comes in winter?
➢ The Taj Mahal is an example of ________ architectural influence in northern India.
➢ Of the following, only ________ is not predominantly Muslim.
➢ "Tamil Tigers" are rebels in ________.
➢ Do women have high status in Indian society and are girls are particularly prized by parents?
➢ The holiest site for Hindus is ________.
➢ Tibet was annexed in 1959 and is now which Chinese region?
➢ Is the primary reason for flooding rice paddies is the suppression of weeds?
➢ Are noodles traditionally part of cuisines in rice growing areas of China?
➢ Use the map below to match the regions of China with their corresponding map locations.
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➢ Match the regions of eastern China below with their corresponding characteristics.
• "Pearl" River; reaches the South China Sea near Hong Kong
• Most polluted industrial region; home to China’s oldest and least efficient industries
• Most navigable river; site of the Three Gorges Dam
• "Yellow" River; cradle of Chinese civilization
➢ Is tea grown only in the hot, humid lowlands of India and eastern China?
➢ ________ are discriminated against in Japanese society because their ancestors were butchers and leather workers, which reveals religious biases brought into Japan by Buddhists.
➢ The holiest site for Buddhists is ________.
➢ Have the holy sites of Buddhism been preserved through the centuries and are they meticulously maintained even though India is now predominantly Hindu?
➢ The holy sites of Buddhism are all in the ________ River Valley.
➢ ________ is the holy city situated where the Ganges River first spills out onto the North Indian Plain.
➢ Is the Ganges River considered sacred by Hindus because it is thought to have sprung from the hair of the Hindu god Shiva?
➢ Which region is the primary source of tea in India?
➢ Is wheat the primary subsistence crop in South Asian areas that intercept large amounts of monsoon rains?
➢ Were Pakistan and Bangladesh once one country?
➢ Did Jammu and Kashmir vote to remain a part of India in 1947 because their populations are overwhelmingly Hindu?
➢ Match the regions of China below with their primary domesticated animal/beast of burden.
• bactrian camel
• horse
• water buffalo
• yak
➢ The largest city in China is ________.
➢ The British flooded Chinese society with ________ from their colonies in South Asia in order to weaken China's resistance to invasion during the Nineteenth Century.
➢ Because it is considered sacred, has India kept the Ganges River free of pollution so ritual bathing in its waters poses no health risks?
➢ Mt. Everest -- the world's tallest mountain -- is on the border between China and ________.
➢ Hindus readily adopt ideas from other religions. ________ are Hindus in the Punjab who have borrowed from Islam.
➢ Is reverence for animals among some Hindus based on the belief that behavior in this life may affect the soul's status in the next?
➢ Are Buddhist shrines cavernous structures that often house thousands of worshippers?
➢ Siddhartha Gautama was the name of ________ before his revelation/enlightenment.
➢ Oasis agriculture is practiced in which Chinese region?
➢ Is spring wheat planted in the fall and harvested in late spring or early summer?
➢ Do areas which produce more than one rice crop each year also have the largest number of harvest festivals?
➢ The "Red Basin" is a Chinese industrial region in the upper ________ Basin.
➢ Use the map below to match the following South Asian crops with their corresponding map locations.
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➢ Use the map below to match the following physical features of South Asia with their corresponding map locations.
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➢ Use the map below to match the following regions of South Asia with their corresponding map locations.
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➢ Match the crops and crop regions below with their corresponding locations in China.
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➢ The central organizing philosophy in China before the communist take-over -- stressing reverence for family and education – was ________.
➢ All of the following are considered "Asian Tigers" except ________.
➢ The most successful Special Economic Zone in China is ________, which is next to Hong Kong.
➢ Was Hong Kong a Portuguese colony that reverted to Chinese control in 1997?
➢ Is North Korea at a lower level of development than South Korea?
➢ The Western Ghats once were connected to which continent?
➢ Are the Eastern Ghats higher in elevation than the Western Ghats?
➢ What does the Hindi word “ghat” literally mean?
➢ The Deccan Traps are composed of ________.
➢ How many feet were added to the official elevation of Mt. Everest as a result of GPS observations?
➢ Is Mt. Everest the most dangerous peak to climb in South Asia?
➢ The Khyber Pass is found in the ________ mountain range.
➢ The Khyber Pass connects Pakistan with which war-torn country?
➢ Is the capital of Pakistan located in the delta of the Indus River?
➢ How many rivers run through the Punjab?
➢ Is the gavial or gharial dangerous to humans?
➢ Which country is largely composed of the combined deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers?
➢ Which major South Asian river flows for a significant length of its course through Tibet?
➢ The December 26, 2004 tsunami was triggered by the collapse of a portion of the sea floor off the coast of ________.
➢ What does the Japanese word “tsunami” literally mean?
➢ Do the wet monsoons come in winter?
➢ Equatorial rainforests are found in South Asia only in ________.
➢ Asian elephants are primarily used in which industry?
➢ Are tigers’ stripes a camouflage pattern adapted to dense forest biomes?
➢ Which South Asian biome is adapted to periodic fires?
➢ What large endangered animal has its primary South Asian population protected within the Chitwan National Park?
➢ What is the primary starchy filler food domesticated in the Monsoon Asia agricultural hearth?
➢ What was the product that most interested Columbus and which lured him into striking out westward across the Atlantic in 1492?
➢ In which modern country would Columbus have found the islands he was really searching for?
➢ Soybeans originated in ________.
➢ The British turned to India as its primary source of ________ as a result of the American Civil War.
➢ What part of the tea plant is harvested and used to make the drink tea?
➢ What part of the marihuana plant is harvested for smoking?
➢ Are all varieties of hemp capable of getting one “high”?
➢ Is winnowing the separation of the rice grain head from the stalk/straw while threshing is the separation of the grain from the husk/bran?
➢ How many months does it take until a rice crop is ready to be eaten?
➢ Were there cotton gins in India before Eli Whitney’s time?
➢ Did the British invent “tea time”?
➢ What type of plantation uses apes and monkeys in the harvesting process?
➢ Which Hindu deity has been identified in a “proto” form in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa?
➢ What animal became the symbol of the Indus Valley civilization after the Indo-European invasion?
➢ Is the swastika a symbol of racial hatred in Hindu society?
➢ Were the Germans the only western group to utilize the swastika?
➢ Which Hindu deity creates and destroys each incarnation of the universe and as a result is revered as both a creative force and an overseer of death?
➢ Does discrimination against the Dalit still occur in Hindu India?
➢ At which Hindu holy place does the largest singe gathering of humans occur every 144 years?
➢ What was put in the Ganges River at Varanasi to alleviate the problem of the accumulation of human corpses?
➢ What force overwhelmed both Hinduism and Buddhism in Indonesia and Bangladesh?
➢ Which branch of Buddhism has the largest number of adherents?
➢ In which culture is the Buddha portrayed as a fat and jolly character?
➢ Match the Buddhist holy places below to the events in the life of the Buddha that they commemorate.
• Awakening/enlightenment
• Birth
• Death
• First sermon
➢ Which Christian Apostle was sent to and subsequently was martyred in India?
➢ Match the invaders of South Asia with the period or innovation that they initiated.
• First European outpost at Goa
• Mughal Period
• Raj
• Vedic Period
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