East Asia

What is the name of the desert where China meets Mongolia?

Gobi

In terms of total land area, East Asia is mostly island countries

False, but they play a huge role

How many geographic regions are there in East Asia? 

7

The east Asian realms population is concentrated in its eastern regions 

True 

What is Chinas largest city?

Shanghai

A very positive aspect of the South-North Waster transfer project is that it has not and will not displace people

False 

The final dynasty to rule China was the

Qing

In China the most varied and most numerous minority groups inhabit the northeast corner of the realm

False

____ location on the main railroad line to the vast western frontier of China sustains it's long term role as one of country's key gateways

Xian

Even though Japan lost WWII, just four decades later it has completely reinvented itself and could be described in which of the following ways 

An industrial behemoth 

Which of the following is not one of the four Asian tigers?

Mongolia 

In the 1970s this communist state proved to be extremely adept at understanding how global capitalism operated and how best to put it to use

China

All of the following are given as reasons why families decided for themselves to have less children throughout the East Asian realm except

Jobs were less secure

China has the largest share of population over the age of 65

False 

China has the most serious and prolonged gender imbalance

True

All us north korean talks were suspended when a successfull ballistic missle launch by north korea occured 

true 

Virtually all of the people who live in Taiwan are ethnically

Chinese

To the PRC, Taiwan is viewed as a wayward provice althought its per capita income is more than triple that of mainland China

true 

China’s Belt and Road initiative involves massive investments by China in infrastructure in more than a hundred countries in the world

True 

Rather than criticizing China, most observers feel the U.S should stay involved around the world and especially in Asia 

true

The administrative map of China is very static as the boundaries and designations have not changed for 50 years 

False

What was China’s inaurgural SAS

Hong Kong

For administrative purposed, China is divided into the following units. Which of the following is an example of the characteristics of those unit?

Autonomous regions were created to recognize the non-Han ethnic minorities living there 

Which of the SEZs is located in the Pearl River Esturary

Shenzhen

China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations

true

which of the following comprise the many peoples of the East Asian realm

mongols, tatars, tibetans, napalese, and chinese

As part of China’s economic transformation the government introduced a __ tier system that would attract technologies and investments from abroad 

3

One downfall of the SEZ is that china did not build adequate seaport facilities or railroads to facilitate trade

false 

China’s interior region is centered on

Lanzhou

The investments and push to develop China’s interior region is spearheaded by the

go west campaign

China’s interior region can be divided into

3 subregions

The ___ Dynasty had forged a sprawing empire covering eastern Asia but lost most of it’s periphery after 1850

Qing

The ARs of the western periphery subregion are almost always under the top leadership of a

Han

What is the heartland of Tibetan-Buddhist culture

Xizang

The capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, holds more than 90% of the country’s population. This reflects a desire for many people to leave the nomadic life behind

false 

What country is the main consumer of Mongolia’s commodities

China

Which of the following is true about Mongolia’s pollution problems?

One issue is that people heat their homes with coal or firewood

___ once colonized Korea

Japan

After WWII the Korean peninsula became the scene of a great power struggle between ___ supported communist armies and ___ led anticommunist forces 

Chinese, American

The media in South Korea is as free as any on earth and the country paticpates in peacekeeping and security operations worldwide 

true

Japan consists of ___ main islands

4

What is the principal disadvantage of the Kanto Plain, and Japan as a whole?

It’s vulnerability to earthquakes

Before the 2011 Tohuku quake/Tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster __ of all energy came from the country’s 22 nuclear power plants

about 1/3

Most of Taiwan’s population is located

in a crescent lining the western and northern coasts

The people’s republic of china will never allow Taiwan to gain independence 

true