Deck 13: Pacific Realm and Polar Futures

Question 1

The UNCLOS allows states to claim all resources within a(n)_____________ that extends up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts.

A) Special Administrative Region
B) Exclusive Economic Zone
C) Underwater Protrusion
D) Extraterritorial Zone
E) Territorial Sea

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following about Fiji is INCORRECT?

A) Nearly a million people live on about 100 islands.
B) The vast majority of Fijians are of Melanesian heritage.
C) A large number of South Asians arrived during the colonial era to work on the sugar plantations.
D) The South Asians have long been political activists.
E) The South Asians have dominated the commercial life of the country.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which country temporarily withdrew from UNCLOS as an indirect result of the independence of East Timor?

A) Australia
B) Indonesia
C) New Guinea
D) East Timor
E) New Zealand

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In territorial size,the largest country in Melanesia is:___________________.

A) the Solomon Islands
B) Fiji
C) Papua New Guinea
D) Hawai'i
E) Easter Island

Question 5

Which of the following is located in Melanesia?

A) Guam
B) Tahiti
C) Vanuatu
D) Samoa
E) Hawai'i

Question 6

Prior to independence,New Guinea was under the administration of __________________.

A) Australia
B) the United Kingdom
C) the Netherlands
D) Indonesia
E) Japan

Question 7

Which of the following is located in Micronesia?

A) Hawaiian Islands
B) Marshall Islands
C) New Caledonia
D) the Solomon Islands
E) Papua New Guinea

Question 8

Based on Figure 12-2,which of the following U.S.states would have the largest EEZ?

A) New York
B) California
C) Texas
D) Hawai'i
E) Washington

Question 9

Which of the following about New Caledonia is INCORRECT?

A) It has significant nickel resources.
B) It remains under British rule.
C) It is inhabited by less than 300,000 people.
D) Its capital is Nouméa.
E) It lies within Melanesia.

Question 10

Guam is politically affiliated with _________

A) China
B) Japan
C) France
D) The Philippines
E) The United States

Question 11

A territorial sea is ______________.

A) an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail
B) a body of water completely surrounded by a state
C) a small body of water that connects to larger bodies of water
D) identical to the term high seas
E) an area where a state has no rights to exploit minerals

Question 12

The Pacific region named ___________ takes its name from the word for many,and is contained within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand,Easter Island,and the Hawaiian Islands.

A) Polynesia
B) Amnesia
C) Micronesia
D) Melanesia
E) Oceania

Question 13

The dominant economic activity associated with high-island cultures is ______________.

A) tourism
B) fishing
C) agriculture
D) mining
E) manufacturing

Question 14

The better-watered volcanic islands,where the economy is based on agriculture,are known as ____________________,

A) high islands
B) low islands
C) Melanesian islands
D) Micronesian islands
E) Polynesian islands

Question 15

The largest cluster of population in Melanesia is found in _________________.

A) Papua New Guinea
B) Fiji
C) Vanuatu
D) Samoa
E) New Caledonia

Question 16

Regionally,the Hawaiian Islands are part of ________________.

A) Melanesia
B) Micronesia
C) Polynesia
D) the Pacific Rim
E) North America

Question 17

The majority of people of New Guinea are ______________.

A) ethnic Chinese
B) Polynesian
C) Indonesian in their ancestry
D) of Dutch descent
E) Papuans

Question 18

When a body of water is less than 24 nautical miles wide,the boundary between the states on each shore is drawn along ____________.

A) Wallace's line
B) the median line
C) the choke point
D) the Political Convergence Line
E) the deepest channel

Question 19

Based on Figure 12-3,which of the following is NOT considered part of Polynesia?

A) Hawai'i
B) Midway Islands
C) Easter Island
D) Tonga
E) Fiji

Question 20

The island of New Guinea is part of the Pacific region known as: _________________.

A) Melanesia
B) Micronesia
C) Polynesia
D) Insular Southeast Asia
E) Indonesia

Question 21

Countries have always claimed at least 12 nautical miles of offshore water as part of their territorial sea.

Question 22

Melanesia is the most heavily populated of the three Pacific regions.

Question 23

According to Figure 12-4,the body of water that separates Argentina from the Antarctic Peninsula is________________.

A) Drake Passage
B) Weddell Sea
C) Bellingshausen Sea
D) Amundsen Sea
E) Antarctic Sea

Question 24

A landlocked country does not have an EEZ.

Question 25

Which of the following countries has made no claim to territory in Antarctica?

A) Chile
B) Argentina
C) Australia
D) the United Kingdom
E) the United States

Question 26

Exclusive Economic Zones are always less extensive than territorial seas.

Question 27

Before the European invasion,Australia and New Zealand would have been included in the Pacific Realm.

Question 28

Low-elevation islands support productive agriculture better than high elevation islands.

Question 29

According to Figure 12-4,all of Antarctica lies south of _________________.

A) the Antarctic Circle
B) 60° South latitude
C) 60° West longitude
D) the South Pole
E) 0° longitude

Question 30

New Guinea is a part of Melanesia,a Pacific region that also includes the Solomon Islands,Vanuatu,and New Caledonia.

Question 31

The islands of Micronesia tend to be small,but they are,on average,higher in elevation than the islands of Melanesia.

Question 32

Most of Micronesia consists of low islands.

Question 33

Figure 12-5 shows that this country does not have territory bordering the Arctic Ocean.

A) Russia
B) Norway
C) Sweden
D) Denmark
E) the United States

Question 34

New Caledonia is still under French rule today.

Question 35

Establishment of EEZs greatly diminished the overall extent of the so-called "high seas".

Question 36

The United States conducted nuclear weapons tests after World War II in___________

A) Hawai'i
B) Fiji
C) The Marshall Islands
D) The Solomon Islands
E) Kiribati

Question 37

An atoll is a reef or island indicative of an undersea volcano.

Question 38

Valid Arctic claims can be made by all but which of the following countries:

A) Canada
B) Finland
C) Norway
D) Russia
E) the United States

Question 39

An international agreement allows exclusive 200-nautical-mile fishing zones for coastal states.

Question 40

Fiji lies west of the International Date Line.

Question 41

Low-island environments are marked by economies based on fishing.

Question 42

In the Pacific Realm,the so-called high islands mainly have volcanic origins,whereas the low islands are made of coral.

Question 43

Pie-shaped best describes the cartographic form of national territorial claims that have been made in Antarctica.

Question 44

The capital of Papua New Guinea is ____________

Question 45

The Antarctic Treaty that presently holds national land claims at abeyance expired in 1991 and was replaced by the Wellington Agreement.

Question 46

Papua New Guinea is located in Polynesia.

Question 47

Russia stands to gain the most from the opening of the Arctic.

Question 48

The U.S.state that is located in the Pacific Realm is ___.

Question 49

 Like the Antarctic,the Arctic is divided among various counties into well-defined territories.

Question 50

The finger of land extending from the main body of Antarctica toward South America is known as the ___.

Question 51

Shallow offshore continuations of coastal plains into adjacent seafloors are known as continental ___.

Question 52

Polynesia is the Pacific's most populous region.

Question 53

Polynesian culture is characterized by its variety,diversity,and inconsistency from island to island in the Pacific.

Question 54

The Pacific region that from the end of World War II through the 1980s was largely a United States Trust territory is ___.

Question 55

The South Pole is today claimed by the United States,whose explorer Marie Byrd was first to reach this distant outpost in 1895.

Question 56

High-island cultures are associated with fertile soils and farming economies.

Question 57

The "LOS" in UNCLOS stands for ___.