World Geo Exam 3

2024

Asia contains ___ of the world’s population

54%

Number of people in China/India combined

2.4 billion

Monsoons are a source of ____

life

Monsoons are a

seasonal reversal of winds

Wet monsoon season

May-September

Dry monsoon season

October-April

Legacies

religion, language, transportation, diet, political boundaries

Main exporter of rice

Thailand

Farming style that produces 75% of rice

Irrigated farming

Farming style that produces 20% of rice

rainfed lowland

Rice needs a ___ and ___ climate to grow

hot and humid

BeriBeri

lack of thiamine, causes eventual heart failure

Most Indonesians are ____

Hindu

Political geography

A systematic field of geography that focuses on the spatial expressions of political behavior

Buffer State Domino Effect

Vietnam fell to communism, then Laos, then Cambodia

The Golden Triangle countries

Laos, Thailand, Burma

The Golden Triangle output

heroin from opium poppies

Pol Pot and Cambodia

Communist leader of Khmer Rouge, killed 2 million people

China’s Population

1.39 billion

China’s one child policy outcomes

More men than women, dramatically curbed population

SouthEast Asia has a _____ climate

tropical