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102 Cards in this Set
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Economic tigers |
Malaysia, singapore, thailand |
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Emerging tiger |
indonesia |
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Baby tiger |
Vietnam |
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Lagging economically behind |
myanmar, cambodia, laos |
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residual region |
external coherence, as opposed to internal coherence |
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mainland southeast asia |
burma, thailand, alos, cambodia, vietnam |
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archipelagic or insular |
malaysia, singapore, indonesia, brunei, phillipines, timor-leste |
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____ landscapes and _____location dominate fortunes of island realms |
marine, coastal |
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control ______ passageways marked the rise and fall of many a power groups |
ocean |
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which place fixed the control of the ocean and most dominant port in SE asia |
Singapore |
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Who founded singapore |
britain |
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2 geogrpahic features |
mountain formations, and crustal instability |
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Mainland SE asia geographical feature |
mountains dominate over plains, |
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river of myanmar |
ayeyarwady |
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what plateau in myanmar? |
shan plateau |
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what is the thai river? |
chao praya |
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What about its delta? |
elongated rather than fan shaped, and forms the thai highlands to bank gong |
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cambodian plateau, and lake and river |
mekong, tonle sap and khorat plateau |
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Mekong river in cambodian |
great river |
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longest river in SE asia |
mekong |
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Mekong river delta? which city |
ho chi minh |
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mekong culture? |
rural poor and fishing |
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what prevents development on mekong? |
waterfalls and rapids prevent shipping |
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what has china done to lead development on mekong? |
blast rapids, build dam and develop river for shipping |
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What happened due to this |
enviro damage, disruption of fishing, waves drown out crops seasonal flow of water for crops disrupted |
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what mountain runs through vietnam? |
annamite range, bewtween mekong and south china |
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north vietnam river? |
red river flows to gulf of tonkin |
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what shelf encloses mainland se asia |
sunda shelf |
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what emerges from shelf? |
borneo |
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populaton in SE asia is primarily around? |
rivers |
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most populated island realm? |
java and luzon |
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what do they both possess |
volcanic soil |
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most moisture deficient place? |
mainland and islands east of java |
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where is more distinct wet and dry season? |
increases as one moves away from teh equator? |
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equatorial regions? |
wet and dry monsoons are affected by convectional rainfall |
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what is the most instrumental in forging SE asia's personality? |
water |
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predictable winds, wood supplies allows what to happen? |
shipbuilding and maritime activity |
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what did indian culture spread? |
hinduism and buddhism |
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who brought islam? |
arabs |
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who disseminated buddhism? |
sri lanka |
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SE asia divided into what two regions? |
Highlands and lowlands |
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lowlands vs highlands? wat crops |
lowlands: rice, highlands dry cultivation |
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dominat races in thailand, cambodia, malaysia and burma? |
tai, kmer, malay, java and burmans |
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list of languages in SE asia? |
malayo-polynesia, sino-tibenetal, austro-asiatic, and english |
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malay polynesia languages |
java and malay |
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sino tibetan |
burmese, thai, catonese |
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austro asitatic |
khmer, annamese vietnamese |
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French |
laos, cambodia, vietnam |
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english |
phillipines, malaysia, singapore, thailand |
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Relgion of mainland SE asia? |
buddhism |
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Where is islam? |
indonesia, malaysia |
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where is hindu |
bali |
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where is christian |
phillipines |
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spice islands known as? |
moluccas or maluka |
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where is it located? |
mini archipegalgo, between sulawesi and pau north of timor lest |
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name of islands |
ambon, banda ceram |
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two produces |
mutmeg and cloves |
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who controlled spice islands |
dutch, they deopulated banda, destroyed all nutmeg and clove plants |
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which is the mother island |
ceram |
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where is rubber grown |
malaya, sumatra and java |
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where is tin? |
malaya, indonesia, and thailand |
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primate cities |
bangkok, KL, jakarta, manilia, hochiminh |
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what is EMR |
region base urbanization, growth in proportion of population engaged in non-agricultural of activities |
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components of EMR |
central region, and outer ing |
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what is teh most severe enviro problem? |
deforestation? |
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what causes it? |
slash and burn and tree crop plantation and ost important is commercial logglogging |
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problem in which countries? |
indonesia, malaysia, philippines and thailand |
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sources of tropical lumber |
concentrated in pilippines and layasian states and inodneisa |
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primary destination of logs? |
japan, largest importer of tropical timber |
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which places exports legally |
sarawak |
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parcels claimed by who? |
china, vietnam, taiwan |
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spratley claimed by who |
china, vietnam, philippines, malaysia taiwan |
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proport countries |
thailand and myanmar |
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fragmented states |
philipines, indonesia, malaysia, brunei |
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what is malaysia's strategic position good for |
meeting of traders from east and west |
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physical geo of malaysia |
strait of malaca, prescence of mountains and abscence of broad plains |
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what is the foundation of malaysia's history |
maritime trade |
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what was mined in malayasia and wehre was it mined? |
tin and main range close to coast in gravels |
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what other thing did malaysia produce:? |
rubber |
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what consist of east malaysia |
sarawak and sabah |
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what did borneo produce? |
bezoar stones, hornbill beaks, camphor and birdsnest |
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what did malays do, what did chinese do what did indians do |
farmers *east malaysia, miners and merchants |
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what is bumiputera? |
increase malay participation int he economy goal by 2020 30% of economy is controlled by malay |
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what 2 regions in malaysia will be focuse of economic growth |
Northern corridor economic region in pinang 2. iskandar with links to singapore |
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malaysia tenth year plan: |
1. agriculture 2. manufacturing 3. tourism 4. infrascture 5. human capital 6. environemt |
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multimedia super corridor |
stretches from KL to the international airport, special tax and investment incentive |
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four languages of singapore |
english, mandarin, tamil and malay |
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where was oil initially discovered? |
sumatra, indonesia |
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transmigrasi |
move people to senstive such as aceh apaua and lakimantan |
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what happended with this? |
cultural clashes, mlack of sutiable land, pig farming |
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jaboteabek |
largest urban agglomeration in southeast asia |
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where is the largest gold mine and copper located? |
paua |
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what has destroyed home of organgutans? |
fire and palm oil |