Geo Test 2

Front 1

know the 5 forces of gradation (erosion)

Back 1

1. moving water
2. flowing glaciers (ice)
3. blowing winds
4. force of gravity
5. living organisms (humans, beavers etc)

Front 2

know the 4 types of landforms and definitions of each

Back 2

1. plains- 0'-300' LR (local relief)
2. hills- 300'-2,000' LR, less than 50% in flat land
3. mountains- less than 2,000' LR, less than 25% in flat land
4. plateaus- 300'-15,000' LR, 50%-90% land is flat (escarpment)

Front 3

know the 2 types of tectonic forces

Back 3

pushing up crust...
1. diastrophism: bend, warp, fold and break rock
2. vulcanism: extrusion of lava from mantle to surface

Front 4

know the 4 types of flat plains

Back 4

1. coastal plains- 0-100' LR
2. lacustrine (lake)
3. delta plains
4. flood plains

Front 5

know the 4 main islands of Japan

Back 5

1. Honshu 101.7 mil
2. Kyushu 14.1mil
3. Hokkaido 6.1 mil
4. Shikoku 4.4 mil

Front 6

know the 4 main economic (industrial) regions of Japan

Back 6

1. Kanto Plain
*Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohoma
2. Nobi Plain
*Nagoya
3. Kansai District (Yamato Plain)
*Osaka, Kobe
4. Kitakyushu
*Yawata

Front 7

know the 4 islands the compose the greater Sundra Islands

Back 7

1. Javro (Jawa)
2. Sumatra (Sumatera)
3. Burneo (Kalimantan)
4. Celebes (Sulawesi)

Front 8

know the 5 state territorial configurations (morphology)

Back 8

1. compact
2. protruded
3. elongated/alenuated
4. fragmented
5. perforated

Front 9

know the 3 classification of boundaries

Back 9

1. physiographic: natural features that mark a boundary
2. anthropogeographic: cultural boundary
3. geometric: straight line boundary

Front 10

know the 4 great river valleys of SE Asia

Back 10

1. Red River: North Vietnam (Hanoi-Haiphong)
2. Mekong River: (Saigon-Cholon)
3. Chao Phaya River: Thailand
4. Irrawaddy River: Myanmar
(Rangoon)

Front 11

Alfred Wegener

Back 11

German climatologist believed South America and Africa were on at some point in history.
= continental drift, pangea

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Pangea

Back 12

time when all landmasses formed as one

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Continental Drift Theory

Back 13

the slow movement of continents controlled by the process associated with plate tectonics

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Theory of Tectonic Plates

Back 14

became certain of continental drift. crust is divided into 16 tectonic plates

explains cause of:
earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis/tidal waves

Front 15

Pacific Ring of Fire

Back 15

along the Pacific- highly active volcanic zone

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Tsunamis

Back 16

tidal wave: underwater earthquake and underwater volcanic eruptions

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subduction zone

Back 17

old land going under mantle of earth= movement of crust on earth

*crust= 5-25 miles thick
*mantle= 1800 miles thick

Front 18

richter scale

Back 18

scale used to measure strength of earthquakes
*strongest on record= 9.6 in Chile

Front 19

San Andreas Fault

Back 19

break between North American and Pacific plate in Southern California

Front 20

Tectonic forces

Back 20

pushing up crust

Front 21

Diastrophism

Back 21

bend, warp, fold and break rock

Front 22

Vulcanism

Back 22

extrusion of lava from mantle to surface

Front 23

orogeny

Back 23

a mountain building process

Front 24

70- year rule

Back 24

major earthquake will happen in Tokyo/San Fran every 70 years

Front 25

landfill

Back 25

not much flat land

Front 26

epicenter

Back 26

point on earth directly above where earthquake happens (7-20 miles deep) the closer the epicenter, the stronger the quake

Front 27

delimitation of boundaries

Back 27

in the field- mark it

Front 28

demarcation of boundaries

Back 28

demarcate boundary of map

Front 29

elevation

Back 29

heigh above sea level

Front 30

local relief

Back 30

height of feature from base to top

Front 31

Geomorphology

Back 31

study of landforms

Front 32

Rimland Theory (N. Spykman)

Back 32

whoever controls Rimland controls the world
(area along Pacific and Indian Ocean of Asian Continent)

Front 33

Organic Theory of the State (Friedrich Ratzel)

Back 33

looks at nation state as if it were a biological creature

Front 34

Sunda Shelf (Platform)

Back 34

continental shelf

Front 35

insular region

Back 35

islands
archipelago: chain of islands
Japan, Philippines

Front 36

Buddhism

Back 36

or Hindu culture or India
involves Karma, caste system

Front 37

Pacific Rim

Back 37

countries/cities located on coast of pacific ocean

Front 38

Siam

Back 38

former name of Thailand until 1939

Front 39

Burmese/Burman

Back 39

country formally known as Myanmar in Indochina

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Thai

Back 40

anything from Thailand

Front 41

Khemers

Back 41

ethnic people of Cambodia

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Malays

Back 42

people group make of: Indonesia, Malaysia, Phillipines

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overseas Chinese

Back 43

singapore= 77% chinese
Malaysia= 25%
Malaysia= 58%
Indonesia= 3%
Philippines= 1%

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Ho Chi Minh

Back 44

Vietnamese communist leader

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Indochina

Back 45

consisted of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos= under French colonial possession

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Netherland East Indies

Back 46

was the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II

Front 47

Sarawak

Back 47

one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo

Front 48

Sabah

Back 48

Malaysian state located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo

Front 49

Strait of Malacca

Back 49

China sees SE Asia as strategically important because of this body of water

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Chinese Imperialism

Back 50

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Front 51

core area

Back 51

national heartland, largest population cluster, most productive region

Front 52

Domino Theory

Back 52

said that SE Asia is like a row of dominoes, if Vietnam falls, the rest will follow

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Tonkin

Back 53

Northern Area of Vietnam

Front 54

Hanoi

Back 54

capital city of Vietnam

Front 55

Haiphong

Back 55

major port city in Vietnam

Front 56

Cochin China

Back 56

delta of mekong river

Front 57

Saigon-Cholon

Back 57

principal city of cochin china

Front 58

Annamite Cordillera

Back 58

mountain range of eastern Indochina, which extends approximately 1100 km (700 miles) through Laos, Vietnam, and a small area in northeast Cambodia

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Annam

Back 59

former name of Vietnam

Front 60

Laos

Back 60

poorest country in SE Asia
main export: electricity on Mekong River

Front 61

Paracel Islands

Back 61

consist of over 30 islets, sandbanks or reefs, occupy about 15,000 km2 of the ocean surface, and located in the South China Sea

Front 62

Spratly Islands

Back 62

group of more than 750 reefs,[2] islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines, China, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam

Front 63

Khmer Empire (9th-15th cent)

Back 63

one of the most powerful empires in Southeast Asia, based in what is now Cambodia and flourishing from the 9th to the 13th century

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Khmer Rouge

Back 64

was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, the totalitarian ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979

Front 65

Angkor Wat

Back 65

greatest treasure of Hinduism; located in capital city of Angkor in Khmer Empire- temple complex

Front 66

Bangkok

Back 66

Thailand's capital

Front 67

Pattani

Back 67

one of the southern provinces of Thailand

Front 68

Phuket

Back 68

island in the south of Thailand

Front 69

Chiang Mai

Back 69

the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand, and is the capital of Chiang Mai Province.

Front 70

Khorat Plateau

Back 70

area of dense population in Thailand. sandy area, soil doesnt hold water AKA Isan

Front 71

Golden Triangle

Back 71

Northern portion of Laos, Thailand and Burma. #1 producer of opium

Front 72

Mandalay

Back 72

the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma

Front 73

Rangoon (yangon)

Back 73

capital of Myanmar (Burma) and is the hub of the country

Front 74

Shan Plateau

Back 74

plateau in Myanmar, Shan people live here

Front 75

Shans (Thais)

Back 75

tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
live primarily in the Shan State of Burma (Myanmar)

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Malay Peninsula

Back 76

The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its teminus, is the southern-most point of the Asian mainland.
Territories of Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

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Multimedia Corridor

Back 77

Government designated zone, designed to leapfrog Malaysia into the information and knowledge age.

Front 78

Kuala Lampor

Back 78

the capital of Malaysia

Front 79

Penang

Back 79

a state in Malaysia, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca

Front 80

entrepot

Back 80

bring in goods and hold them til market price goes up, then send them out from Singapore to be sold

Front 81

Singapore

Back 81

officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula,

Front 82

aboriginal tribes/ hill tribes

Back 82

mountain people (Indonesia)

Front 83

Lesser Sunda Islands

Back 83

group of islands in the middle-south part of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands

Front 84

Bali/Timor/Lombok

Back 84

indonesian islands:
Bali- tourist center (Buddhism)
Timor- island divided between control of Indonesia and Portugal
Lombok-

Front 85

Molucca (maluku) Islands/ Spice Islands

Back 85

archipelago in Indonesia, spices are valuable in Europe

Front 86

Jakarta (Batavia)

Back 86

the capital and largest city of Indonesia

Front 87

Medan

Back 87

capital of the province of North Sumatra, Indonesia

Front 88

Aceh Province

Back 88

located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra

Front 89

Dyaks

Back 89

non malay people in Indonesia
*head hunters

Front 90

Minahasa Peninsula

Back 90

one of the four principal peninsulas on the island of Sulawesi that stretches north from the central part of the island, before turning to the east and forming the northern boundary of the Gulf of Tomini.

Front 91

Papua (Irian Jaya)

Back 91

Western New Guinea- found oil and gold here
-TImor, Lombok

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Luzon

Back 92

North Phillipene island

Front 93

Mindanao

Back 93

South Phillippene Island

Front 94

Moros

Back 94

Muslim filipinos

Front 95

Manila

Back 95

located on Luzon- primate city in Philippines - good harbor

is the DEFACTO capital (in fact, not constitutionally)

Front 96

Tagalog

Back 96

official Phil language (filipeno)

Front 97

lingua franca

Back 97

universal/common language of an area
in Phil= english

Front 98

Ifuago

Back 98

hill tribes (mountain people)

Front 99

Jakota Triangle

Back 99

Japan, Korea, and Taiwan), which is a region of great cities, huge consumption of raw materials from all over

Front 100

archipelago

Back 100

chain of islands

Front 101

Kurile Islands

Back 101

in Northern Japan, very cold

Front 102

Ryukyu Islands

Back 102

Japan stole them from China

Front 103

Okinawa

Back 103

biggest island in Ryuku islands
*USA Military base there

Front 104

Ainu

Back 104

10,000-20,000 years immigrated there before Japanese
-were white ppl
-gatherers, not as industrialized as Japanese ppl

Front 105

Shogun

Back 105

military leader in Japan

Front 106

Samurai

Back 106

Japanese army

Front 107

Shintoism

Back 107

natural spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people

Front 108

Shintoism

Back 108

natural spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people

Front 109

Meiji Restoration

Back 109

wanted to modernize Japan

Front 110

Front Japan

Back 110

pacific coastal region, big population, big cities

Front 111

Back Japan

Back 111

sea of japan coast

Front 112

Tokaido Megalopolis

Back 112

65% of industry, majority of people, major cities of Japan here

Front 113

aquaculture

Back 113

farming of freshwater and saltwater organisms

Front 114

Kanto Plain

Back 114

industrial region of japan-
30% population, 20% industry
= Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohoma

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Osaka

Back 115

big city in Kansai district

Front 116

Kobe

Back 116

port city, center of shipbuiliding in Kansai district

Front 117

Nobi Plain

Back 117

industrial region of Japan-

Front 118

Nagoya

Back 118

silting of harbor, home of Toyota motors in nobi plain

Front 119

Kitakyushu

Back 119

industrial region of japan

Front 120

Yawata

Back 120

in Kitakyushu- 1st steel mill

Front 121

Hiroshima

Back 121

capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It became the first city in history destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15am on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.

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Nagasaki

Back 122

capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū in Japan.
It was a center of Portuguese and European influence in the 16th through 19th centuries. Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War.

Front 123

Sapporo

Back 123

fifth-largest city in Japan by population. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture
apporo is best known outside Japan for hosting the 1972 Winter Olympics, the first ever held in Asia,

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Korean Peninsula

Back 124

a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles (1,100 km) from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (also called East Sea) on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.

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Yalu River

Back 125

North Korea Border

Front 126

Pyongyang

Back 126

North Korea capital

Front 127

38th parallel

Back 127

separates North and South Korea

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Kim Il Sung

Back 128

North Korea leader- created army, attempted to reunite Korea

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Yongbyon

Back 129

North Korea- developed nuclear weapons

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Seoul

Back 130

South Korea capital

Front 131

Incheon

Back 131

AKA Incheon Metropolitan City, third largest metropolis. As the largest seaport on the west coast and home to the country's largest airport, Incheon International Airport, Incheon is South Korea's most important transport hub

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Kyongsang

Back 132

major industrial city in South Korea

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Busan

Back 133

major industrial city- home of HYUNDAI

Front 134

Cholla

Back 134

major industrial city in South Korea

Front 135

Kwangju

Back 135

major industrial city in S Korea

Front 136

chaebol

Back 136

refers to a South Korean form of business firms

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KTX

Back 137

transportation- high speed rail system that connects major cities

Front 138

Hyundai

Back 138

made in south korea

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Samsung

Back 139

made in South korea

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regional complementarity

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exists when 2 regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each others demands.