Globalization and Diversity Chapter 10

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1) Where are the desert regions of Central Asia mostly located?- -PG 333 – L

Central belt of deserts ?

2) What is the primary reason for the shrinking of the Aral Sea? – PG 329-R 330-L

Irrigation from the 2 rivers that fed the Arel Sea have been used extensively

3) Which Central Asian lake is the largest lake in the world? – PG 330 – R

Caspian Sea

4) Why is the environment in Central Asia relatively clean? – PG 330 – L

Due to low population density

5) Which of the following deserts is NOT found in Central Asia? (Kara Kum, Kalahari, Kyzyl

Kalahari

6) The Pamir Knot – What is it… – PG 332 – R

Complex tangle of mountains located where Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Tajikistan meet – towering ranges in several direction

7) What geologic event created Central Asia’s mountain ranges? – PG 332 – L

Collision of the Indian subcontinent with the Asian mainland

8) In the Tarim Basin, where do most of the people reside? – PG 336 figure

Along the edge (ring) of the basin

9) What do most climate change experts predict will happen to Central Asia as climate change continues? – PG 333 – R

Reduce freshwater resources, precipitation – prolonged droughts – less agriculture

10) In which country of Central Asian is the Gobi Desert found? – PG 329 figure

Mongolia

11) What is the livelihood of pastoralists? – PG 333 – R

People who raise livestock for sustenance purposes

12) What livelihood is "the only feasible way of life on the Tibetan plateau," according to the authors of your textbook? – PG 333 – R

Nomadic paternalism

13) Since the 1960s, where has the largest proportion of migrants to Tibet and the western provinces of China come from? – PG 336 – L

Han Chinese

14) Where do the majority of people in Uzbekistan reside? – PG 335-R/336 – L

near the river valleys and alluvial fans

15) What development led to the emergence of nomadic pastoralism in Central Asia? – PG 333 – R

Large areas are too arid or too high in altitude to support human life – lowland settlings are densely populated

16) Which language of Central Asia is an Indo-European language? – PG 339 – R

Mountain Tajik

17) What is the most common language group in Central Asia, based on the number of native speakers? – PG 339 – L

Turkic languages

18) What was the most common foreign language of the countries of Central Asia in the 1970s?- PG 342 – L

Russian

19) Which language is Tajik most closely related? – PG 339 – R

Persian

20) Followers of which religion in Central Asia suffered brutal persecution when China invaded Tibet?– PG 341 – R

Buddhist

21) When Central Asia has been under the communist rule of China, the Soviet Union, and Mongolia, what has happened to religion? – PG 340 – R

All forms of religion were discouraged

22) Who were the eighteenth-century founders of Afghanistan? – PG 340 – L

Pashtun people

23) Which country of Central Asia was NOT previously a republic of the former USSR? – PG 343 -R

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan WERE in the USSR

24) In the nineteenth century, what country began to displace China from Central Asia? – PG 342 – R

Russia

25) What was the source of the military dominance of Central Asia’s nomads before 1500?

Horses

26) Which areas in Central Asia remain under Chinese control? – PG 343 figure / 344 – L

Tibet , Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia

27) What is the name of the ultra orthodox Islamic group that was in power in Afghanistan until the United States military intervened in fall of 2001? – PG 345 – R

Taliban

28) Which Central Asian country had been engaged in a civil war that was brought to a head by the aftermath of the September terrorist attacks?

Afghanistan

29) What group founded the Taliban? – PG 345 – R

Young Muslim religious students

30) How many new countries appeared in Central Asia as a result of the break-up of the Soviet Union? – PG 334 – L

Six (6)

31) What word best describes the political structures in most countries of Central Asia? -PG 3525 summary

Authoritarian

32) Where is oil pollution worst in Central Asia? – PG 347 – figure / 330 – R

Caspian Sea

33) Most of Central Asia’s oil reserves are found near which physical feature of Central Asia?

Caspian Sea??

34) What is the most developed country of Central Asia? – G 47 – R

Kazakhstan

35) Since 1999, which Central Asian country has been the world’s largest producer of opium?

Afghanistan

36) What transportation technology must be constructed before the oil wealth of Central Asia can become economically viable? – PG 351 – figure

Pipelines

37) Afghanistan earns most of its foreign currency by selling what? – PG 349 – L

Opium

38) Which natural resource is of potentially great importance to economic development in Central Asia? – PG 349 – R

Oil / petroleum

39) According to government planners in Turkmenistan, what product will Turkmenistan begin to export in large quantities, bringing prosperity to the country?

Natural Gas ?

40) In which country of Central Asia do people have the shortest life expectancy?

Afghanistan – 45 yrs

41) Of all the Central Asian countries, which one has the worst overall composite record of social indicators? – PG 349 – R

Afghanistan

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