Deck 11: Southeast Asia

Question 1

________ is home to 20 percent of the world's mangrove forests.

A) Laos
B) Burma
C) East Timor
D) Indonesia

Answer 1

Indonesia

Question 2

________ combine(s) with human factors to create an ideal environment for forest fires in Southeast Asia.

A) ENSO
B) Hurricane season
C) Trade winds
D) Apple plantations

Answer 2

ENSO

Question 3

Some colonial powers frequently forced or urged peasant farmers to dedicate part of their traditional paddy land to cultivating crops for export, a system called:

A) export processing
B) cash cropping
C) plantationism
D) paddy slavery

Answer 3

cash cropping

Question 4

- Most of Southeast Asia lies atop the ________ Plate.

A) Philippine
B) North American
C) Eurasian
D) Australian

Question 5

- The only landlocked country in Southeast Asia:

A) Laos
B) Thailand
C) Philippines
D) Burma

Question 6

- Mainland Malaysia is divided from the Island of Sumatra by the:

A) Indian Ocean
B) South China Sea
C) Strait of Malacca
D) Timor Sea

Question 7

- Vietnam is across the ________ from the Philippines.

A) Indian Ocean
B) South China Sea
C) Strait of Malacca
D) Timor Sea

Question 8

Compared to Hurricane Katrina flooding, which killed about 3,000 people, the 2004 earthquake and tsunami originating near the northwest coast of Sumartra killed about ________ times as many people.

A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 10

Question 9

Of the rivers in Southeast Asia, the ________ did NOT have a major pre-European core area centered on it.

A) Mekong
B) Salween
C) Red
D) Irrawaddy

Question 10

Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion in most of Philippines except the far:

A) east
B) west
C) north
D) south

Question 11

Of the reformer countries in Southeast Asia, ________ has the highest FDI.

A) Vietnam
B) Indonesia
C) Thailand
D) Philippines

Question 12

Which is the correct ranking of per capita GNI from highest to lowest?

A) Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos
B) Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei
C) Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam
D) Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand

Question 13

Which is the correct ranking of FDI from 2000-2011 from highest to lowest?

A) Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos
B) Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei
C) Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam
D) all of these are correct

Question 14

Visitors from USA comprise about ________% of tourists to Southeast Asia.

A) 1
B) 4
C) 12
D) 25

Question 15

Most tourists to Southeast Asia arrive from:

A) Australia
B) Europe
C) China
D) other Southeast Asian countries

Question 16

The Paracel Islands are in the ________ part of the South China Sea.

A) northern
B) southern
C) southeastern
D) southwestern

Question 17

Among the most lightly populated Indonesia islands are Borneo and:

A) Papua New Guinea
B) Sumatra
C) Singapore
D) Bali

Question 18

________, with more than 240 million people, is the world's fourth most populous country.

A) Philippines
B) Vietnam
C) Singapore
D) Indonesia

Question 19

Among the highest rates of fertility in Southeast Asia are the Philippines and:

A) Laos
B) Thailand
C) Vietnam
D) Singapore

Question 20

Because ________ costs were much higher in Singapore than in neighboring countries, the city-state promoted higher-technology and capital-intensive industries domestically, and enticed power-technology industries to relocate either long distance-to Thailand, Vietnam, or southern China-or to neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.

A) food
B) machinery
C) land and labor
D) medical

Question 21

With the exception of urban Singapore, ________ has the lowest rural poverty rate in Southeast Asia.

A) Thailand
B) Philippines
C) Malaysia
D) Timor Leste

Question 22

The Java Sea separates ________ from ________.

A) Java island; Borneo Island
B) Sunda Islands; Australia
C) Vietnam; Philippines
D) Singapore; Sumatara Island

Question 23

The Philippines was ceded by Spain to ________ in 1898.

A) the United Kingdom
B) France
C) Germany
D) the United States

Question 24

Multinational corporations are attracted to Indonesia because of inexpensive labor for export product assembly as well as ________.

A) a healthy agricultural sector which can supply exotic foods to management inexpensively
B) black markets for a wide variety of consumer goods
C) government bribes to management
D) a very large and youthful domestic consumer market

Question 25

Timor Leste was a ________ colony.

A) Dutch
B) British
C) French
D) Portuguese

Question 26

Singapore is separated from the mainland by the:

A) Johore Strait
B) Red Sea
C) Mekong River delta
D) South China Sea

Question 27

The country of Brunei is located on the ________ side of the island of Borneo.

A) northern
B) southern
C) western
D) eastern

Question 28

The Sulu Sea separates the Philippines from:

A) Japan
B) Taiwan
C) China
D) Borneo Island

Question 29

Luzon Island is in the ________ of the Philippines.

A) north
B) south
C) east
D) west

Question 30

Mindanao Island is in the ________ of the Philippines.

A) north
B) south
C) east
D) west

Question 31

The Sulu Archipelago is controlled by:

A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Brunei
D) the Philippines

Question 32

Economic development in Thailand is concentrated around the city of:

A) Bangkok
B) Hanoi
C) Saigon
D) Yangon

Question 33

Unlike Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, where FDI in manufacturing exports is anchored in electronics, Thailand has become the center of Southeast Asia's ________ industry.

A) shoe
B) ship building
C) automobile
D) household appliance

Question 34

Among Bangkok's environmental problems are saltwater intrusion in the water table and:

A) nuclear radiation
B) subsidence
C) destruction of song birds by foreign-introduced rats
D) acid rain

Question 35

The engine of Vietnam's economic turnaround has been:

A) government seizure of key industries
B) Foreign Direct Investment
C) hydropower sold to its neighbors
D) banana plantations

Question 36

This sector in 2008 employed almost 70 percent of the manufacturing workforce and accounted for 70 percent of manufacturing export value in Cambodia.

A) automobiles for export to Japan
B) processing coffee for the domestic market
C) small electronics
D) garments

Question 37

Unlike in other Mainland Southeast Asian countries, Chinese cultural, social, and political influences have been significant in:

A) Philippines
B) Thailand
C) Burma
D) Vietnam

Question 38

Burma recently instituted political reforms including:

A) deposing their king
B) a new constitution
C) assassinating their military leaders
D) releasing foreign hostages

Question 39

The road from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur passes through the:

A) Mekong Delta
B) Kra Isthmus
C) Khorat Plateau
D) Annamese Cordillera

Question 40

The capital of Laos, Vientiane, lies in along the border with Thailand and the:

A) Indian Ocean
B) Mekong River
C) South China Sea
D) border with China

Question 41

Vietnam's population density is high in the south, around the city of Saigon and the nearby:

A) city of Hanoi
B) Mekong River
C) Strait of Malacca
D) Khorat Plateau

Question 42

Mercantile colonialism was a period of commercial rather than government dominance by Europeans.

Question 43

In Mainland Southeast Asia, people are concentrated primarily along mountain-plateau foothills where growth has followed the historic settlement patterns.

Question 44

No region of Indonesia has a Christian majority.

Question 45

Theravada Buddhism has been so successfully adopted in Burma, that no regions dominated by Indigenous religions remain.

Question 46

Of the reformer countries in Southeast Asia, Timor Leste has the highest per capita GNI.

Question 47

Although per capita GNI is the lowest among modernizers, the Philippines still has a per capita GNI of $20,000 above highest per capita GNI of reformers.

Question 48

China's claims in the South China Sea are very similar to what the international agreement UNCLOS would grant the country.

Question 49

Among the lowest rate of natural increase in Southeast Asia are Singapore and Thailand.

Question 50

Besides Indonesia, Timor Leste's nearest neighbor is Australia.

Question 51

Smoke and haze from fires on the island of Borneo regularly affect air quality in western U.S. cities.

Question 52

Singapore has the highest GNI PPP per capita in Asia.

Question 53

Singapore is a single island with about 5 million people off southern coast of Malaysia.

Question 54

Dili, the capital of Timor Leste, lies on the southern side of the island.

Question 55

The Moluccas Islands are found in the eastern area of Indonesia.

Question 56

Singapore is a small country with about 5 million people, so the entire country falls within urban areas.

Question 57

Vietnam is distinctive among its mainland neighbors because it was never a Western colonial possession and is the only "modernizer"
country.

Question 58

Vietnam is the one reformer country most resistant to the openness associated with globalization.

Question 59

Cambodia's highest population densities are in the northeast.

Question 60

Compared to neighbors Vietnam and Thailand, Laos is relatively sparsely populated.

Question 61

Because Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh, is located on the coast, it benefits from FDI for garment manufacturing.

Question 62

Burma recently moved its capital toward the coast in order to benefit from FDI for garment manufacturing.

Question 63

Evaluate how deforestation in Southeast Asia helps the economies of the affected countries.

Question 64

Provide a synthesis of core-periphery relationships during industrial colonialism.

Question 65

Provide a synthesis of successes and setbacks of Overseas Chinese since the end of World War II.

Question 66

Evaluate how the spatial organization of Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMR) in Southeast Asia influences economic development in rural areas.

Question 67

Evaluate which energy resource seems most promising for Southeast Asia in the future.

Question 68

Evaluate how landforms combined with historical patterns affect current population distribution in Southeast Asia.

Question 69

Evaluate positive and negative of overseas workers from Southeast Asia.

Question 70

Evaluate whether Singapore is facing a demographic crisis.

Question 71

Evaluate how Indonesia benefits from economic success in nearby countries.

Question 72

Synthesize the development prospects of insular Southeast Asia as a region.

Question 73

Evaluate the validity of the term "internal colonialism"
in Indonesia.

Question 74

Evaluate the differing effects of the Chinese in the countries of insular Southeast Asia.

Question 75

Evaluate how FDI in Vietnam differs geographically from other Southeast Asia states.

Question 76

Evaluate unique challenges to development in Cambodia.

Question 77

Evaluate which government-Cambodia's or Burma's-appears most economic development oriented.

Question 78

Evaluate the differing effects of the Chinese in the countries of mainland Southeast Asia.

Question 79

Synthesize the development prospects of mainland Southeast Asia as a region.