Exam 10: Southeast Asia

Which statement best summarizes the environmental impact of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia?

Indonesia became an independent country in _______.

Which of the following activities has destroyed the largest share of Southeast Asian rain forests?

Which of the following is located at the very southern tip of the peninsular appendage of mainland Southeast Asia?

No powerful indigenous empires emerged in Southeast Asia in the era prior to European colonization.

All of the countries of Southeast Asia are nearing the last stage of the demographic transition.

Which of the following did NOT play a role in the economic crisis that swept Southeast Asia in the late 1990s?

In Vietnam, the provision of basic education and health care and the attraction of foreign investment have contributed to a lower infant mortality rate.

Of the over 4.5 million people killed during the Vietnam War, 58,000 were American soldiers.

In what way does Thailand's experience during the European colonial era differ from that of all other countries in Southeast Asia?

Which facet of life in Southeast Asia is sometimes used by leaders to make the case that Asian nations are NOT well suited to democracy?

What country colonized parts of Southeast Asia during World War II?

When a field lies fallow, farmers are allowing it to regenerate its fertility naturally.

The name given to the country of Burma by its military junta is:

Which of the following descriptions most aptly describes the so-called Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia?

Ho Chi Minh was the leader of which country's resistance against French occupation?

Explain how swidden cultivation helps preserve the fertility of farmland, and discuss how population growth and logging activities can interfere with swidden cultivation and lead to climate change and other environmental side-effects.

More than half of Southeast Asia's population currently lives in cities.

Which pollutant is a result of wet rice cultivation and the fermentation of soil as oxygen supplies are cut off?

Which of the following is NOT among the problems fostered by commercial farming in Southeast Asia?