2025 HONORS World Geography : Unit 10 - Southeast & East Asia 2

How does the summer monsoon season benefit the region of Southeast Asia?

• It provides plentiful rains for rice fields.

• It calms ocean waves to provide for good fishing conditions.

• It prevents the approach of typhoons from the Pacific Ocean.

• It has strong winds that clear out cloudy skies for months of sunshine.

Which natural disaster is a threat to much of Southeast Asia because of seismic activity occurring in the Indian Ocean?

• Tsunamis

• Monsoons

• Hurricanes

• Volcanic eruptions

Mongolia is a landlocked country in north central Asia with a harsh climate and few resources. Livestock outnumber people many times over. It can be inferred that Mongolia's economic system is a —

• subsistence economy based on farming

• subsistence economy based on herding

• market economy based on agriculture

• market economy based on light industry

Which of the following statements is true?

• Goods and services are most expensive in traditional economies.

• Countries with market economies have a higher standard of living.

• Smaller and less-developed countries tend to encourage free enterprise.

• Individual purchasing power is greatest in command economies.

North Korea has a communist government with a strong dictator. As a result, it is one of the few economies in the world where the government—

• trades exclusively with South Korea

• allows individuals the right to property

• controls all major aspects of the economy

• mixes elements from free-market and command economies

Before Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese, it was considered to be an example of pure free enterprise. What did this mean?

• Trading was freely allowed with the Chinese communists.

• Hong Kong was controlled by a committee of capitalists.

• The market was primarily controlled by supply and demand.

• All production was determined by tourists who shopped there.

Entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) might change China's economic relationship with the rest of the world because China will have to —

• allow more foreign competition in its markets

• allow Europeans to manage the economy

• produce completely different goods

• become a democratic country with a market economy

In what way has the opening of the Three Gorges Dam affected the movement of goods in China?

• Shanghai’s harbor has been deepened.

• Overland routes have been cut by the dam.

• Ocean-going ships are able to travel farther inland.

• Travel between China’s northern and southern regions is easier.

A geographer could place North Africa and Indonesia in the same category because most of the people living in these regions —

• practice nomadic hunting

• rely on the monsoon season

• elect their own rulers

• adhere to the same religion

The religious affiliations of many of the people living in Southeast Asia include —

• Islam and Hinduism

• Buddhism and Islam

• Judaism and Hinduism

• animism and local religions