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How do of Aborigines and Maoris fair in education and economically as compared to whites in Australia and New Zealand?
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What is the current situation for native land rights in Australia and Oceania?
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According to your textbook, how and why has American football become important to many Pacific Islanders?
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What is Pidgin English and why is it important?
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What has been the response to climate change in Australia and Oceania and why is it an especially important issue for the region?
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Describe the differences in environment between Oceania's low and high islands.
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Australia and Oceania face numerous environmental risks. Write an essay in which you describe and assess two of the most severe of these problems.
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Mining contributes the most to Australia's economy.
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Australians voted to retain their ties to the British Crown and recognize the British Queen as their official head of state.
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Traditionally the term "haoles" was used to describe an elite group in Hawaii who profited from commercial sugarcane plantations.
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A reason that many Polynesians are recruited to play on American football teams is the emphasis in Polynesian culture on group activity and bonding.
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English missionariesemphasized male characters and heroic warrior attributes, removing strong females from Maori proverbs and legends.
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In the Australia and Oceania region, anthropologists have the greatest chance of finding "uncontacted peoples" in Fiji.
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The Maori have a greater political impact on New Zealand than the Aborigines do in Australia.
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Emigration from Tonga is very high.
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Australia and New Zealand are the most urbanized countries in the region of Australia and Oceania.
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In the region of Australia and Oceania, the most populated country is New Zealand.
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Exotic plants and animals are the most serious challenge to many of New Zealand's indigenous plant and animal species such as the moa birds that are now extinct.
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Australia is known around the world for having marsupial animals.
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Kwajalein is the best example of an atoll in Australia and Oceania.
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In the Australia and Oceania region, you would expect the highest amount of rain near the interior of Australia.
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Which of the following is the best definition of "uncontacted peoples"?
A) people who do not have Internet hook-ups
B) people who do not have telephones
C) people who do not have access to television
D) cultural groups that have yet to be "discovered" by the Western world
E) cultural groups, like the Maroons in Latin America, who make a point of living away from major population centers
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Where in Australia and Oceania do anthropologists have the greatest chance of finding "uncontacted peoples"?
A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Fiji
D) New Guinea
E) Tasmania
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How did Pacific Islanders first come to be recruited heavily for American football?
A) many Pacific Islanders began to watch American football on t.v. and saw this as a way to improve their economic status
B) the strong presence of Mormon missionaries in Oceania led to the recruitment of Pacific Islanders for Brigham Young University football
C) Polynesian culture's emphasis of group activity and bonding made them transition easily to American football culture
D) None of the above are correct
E) All of the above are correct
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The Maori account for approximately what percentage of New Zealand's population?
A) 22
B) 45
C) 8
D) 1
E) 30
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What is the cultural origin of the majority of Australia's population?
A) Australia (the Aboriginal population)
B) France
C) Spain
D) Britain
E) South Asia
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The Aboriginal population numbered approximately ________ upon European conquest?
A) 1 million
B) 10,000
C) 300,000
D) 800,000
E) 3 million
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What is the situation today between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians in Fiji?
A) The two groups coexist peacefully.
B) Ethnic tensions exist between the two groups.
C) Intermarriage between the two groups is common.
D) The Indo-Fijians have enslaved the indigenous Fijians.
E) The indigenous Fijians have put the Indo-Fijians to work on farms as indentured laborers.
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Why did South Asians migrate to Fiji?
A) They had committed crimes in India, and came as prisoners.
B) They came to fill labor shortages in the sugarcane fields
C) They came to colonize Fiji.
D) They were fleeing civil war in India.
E) They came as a result of a government policy in India to relieve overcrowding.
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Which countries in the region comprising Australia and Oceania are the most urbanized?
A) Australia and Fiji
B) New Zealand and French Polynesia
C) Australia and Micronesia
D) Australia and New Zealand
E) New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
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Not including Australia and New Zealand , what type(s) of rural settlement are found in the island realm of Oceania?
A) commercial sheep farming
B) commercial dairying
C) shifting cultivation for village populations
D) commercial plantation agriculture
E) commercial plantation agriculture and shifting cultivation
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In the early days of its colonization, Britain used Australia initially as a
A) source of natural resources.
B) source of slaves.
C) tourist destination.
D) prison colony.
E) plantation.
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Of the following places in Australia and Oceania, which was the first to be settled by humans?
A) Australia
B) New Zealand
C) Fiji
D) Hawaii
E) Cook Islands
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By approximately what year was Australia settled by Aborigines?
A) by 2500 BCE
B) by 1200 BCE
C) by 200 BCE
D) by 400 CE
E) by 1200 CE
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Groups such as SPA (Sustainable Population Australia) argue that
A) Australia's very low natural increase rate will create a slowing of economic production.
B) Australia should institute policy to restrict population size.
C) global warming will make Australia's interior more inhabitable and therefore able to support a larger population.
D) that Australia is underpopulated by more than 8 million people.
E) Australia's population has reached a sustainable level compared to other world regions
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In what part of Australia do most of its people live?
A) southeast
B) southwest
C) northwest
D) northeast
E) the Outback
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What causes a tsunami?
A) plate tectonics
B) a volcano
C) a monsoon
D) climate change
E) orographic precipitation
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Papua New Guinea's greenhouse gas emissions are less than that of New Zealand due primarily to the fact that
A) they have far fewer people.
B) they have taken strict measures to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
C) they are participating in a cap and trade program.
D) there are far fewer livestock.
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Which of the following areas of Australia and Oceania has NOT been affected by mining in comparison to other areas in the region?
A) Australia
B) Hawaii
C) Papua New Guinea
D) New Caledonia
E) Nauru
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Which of the following environmental problems is NOT a major issue in Australia and Oceania?
A) Major mining operations have threatened the environment.
B) Global warming threatens to drown islands of the region as sea levels rise.
C) Wide-scale burning of forests after they have been cleared is creating smoke pollution.
D) Exotic plants and animals are leading to the extinction of indigenous species.
E) Woodlands have been destroyed to produce pastures.
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What caused the dramatic decline in Guam's native bird species?
A) climatic change in the region
B) the elimination of its food supply by humans
C) the thinning of their eggshells and the subsequent death of their young as a result of heavy DDT use on the island in the 1970s
D) radiation poisoning caused by nuclear tests of the United States and France
E) the accidental introduction of the non-native brown tree snake
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Which exotic animal, introduced to Australia, reached plague proportions, and was finally brought under control only after the purposeful introduction of a disease that affected only this particular introduced species?
A) camels
B) dogs
C) goats
D) wallabies
E) rabbits
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Which of the following factors is NOT listed in your textbook as one of the three factors influencing the climates of New Zealand?
A) rivers
B) latitude
C) moderating effects of the Pacific Ocean
D) proximity to local mountains
E) All of the above are listed as factors influencing the climates of New Zealand
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Which part of the Australia and Oceania region receives the LEAST amount of precipitation? A) the northeast coast of New Zealand
B) the mid-slopes of the 13,000-foot-plus volcanoes of the island of Hawaii
C) anywhere in Samoa
D) the largest of the Marshall Islands
E) the interior of Australia
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Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?
A) off the west coast of New Zealand
B) along Australia's southern coast
C) along New Zealand's east coast
D) off the northeastern coast of Australia
E) off the southwestern coast of Australia
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What landform dominates much of New Zealand?
A) volcanic mountains
B) wide plains
C) lush tropical rainforest
D) eroded sedimentary formations
E) deserts
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What is the second most populous country in the Australia andOceania region?
A) Australia
B) Papua New Guinea
C) Fiji
D) Nauru
E) New Zealand
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What is the approximate population of Australia?
A) 5 million
B) 13 million
C) 45 million
D) 23 million
E) 200 million
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What is the largest country (in terms of land area as well as population) in the Australia and Oceania region?
A) Australia
B) Fiji
C) New Zealand
D) Solomon Islands
E) Vanuatu
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Fifty years ago, the Philippines was the most highly developed Southeast Asian country and was considered to have a very bright economic future. However, by the 1980s and 1990s the Philippines' economy took a sharp downturn. Explain the factors that contributed to this nation's economic change.
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What are the three farming patterns that are found in Southeast Asia, and generally where are each of these patterns found?
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What are the major environmental issues confronting Southeast Asia? How serious are they, and what steps have been taken to deal with them?
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Describe the monsoon climates of Southeast Asia.
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Because the Dutch had used Indonesia largely for its tropical crops and invested little in transportation, health, or education in this country, Indonesia was extremely poor when it gained its independence from the Netherlands in 1949.
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Islam largely replaced Hinduism and Buddhism in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Vietnam is the most urbanized country in Southeast Asia, and is 95 percent urbanized.
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Within Southeast Asia, transmigration is most commonly practiced in Indonesia.
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Plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia now often focuses on specialty crops like pineapple or rubber.
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Swidden agriculture restores soil nutrients allowing people to settle in one place for an extended period of time.
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A commercial airliner crashed in Southeast Asia during the late 1990s due to terrible air pollution.
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Insular Southeast Asia lies in the tropics.
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In Southeast Asia temperatures are high year-round throughout most of the region, and rainfall is generally plentiful, but varies from place to place.
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What is ASEAN's relationship to the United States?A) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all countries, except the United States, from having too much influence in the region.B) ASEAN is on friendly terms with the United States, but wants to keep all countries, including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.C) ASEAN wants the United States to help it develop good ties with other countries to encourage international trade.D) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep all countries, including the United States, from having too much influence in the region.E) ASEAN is on unfriendly terms with the United States, and wants to keep the United States from having too much influence in the region.
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What is the mission of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)?
A) ASEAN was created to promote tourism in the region.
B) ASEAN fosters regional cooperation and regional coherence.
C) ASEAN's primary goal is to clean up the environment in the region.
D) ASEAN was created to improve education in the region.
E) ASEAN is a military alliance (like NATO).
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What is(are) the main cause(s) of Burma's (Myanmar's) lack of economic development?
A) internal warfare
B) an international economic embargo
C) economic policy
D) a lack of resources and economic policy
E) internal warfare and economic policy
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What country has Vietnam primarily emulated as it works to improve its economy?
A) United States
B) China
C) South Korea
D) Japan
E) India
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Why was Indonesia so poor when it gained its independence from the Dutch in 1949?
A) Indonesia had no marketable products.
B) Indonesia had accumulated high levels of international debt.
C) It suffered several years of drought and famine.
D) Civil war drained resources and stifled manufacturing.
E) The Dutch had used Indonesia largely for its tropical crops and invested little in transportation, health, or education in Indonesia.
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What country is the newest country in Southeast Asia?
A) East Timor
B) Burma (Myanmar)
C) Cambodia
D) Malaysia
E) Indonesia
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Which country of Southeast Asia has been troubled by tensions from its orthodox Muslim region known as Aceh?
A) Thailand
B) the Philippines
C) Indonesia
D) Singapore
E) Vietnam
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The Vietnam War started when which European country tried to retain control of its Southeast Asian colonies?
A) Great Britain
B) Spain
C) France
D) United States
E) Netherlands
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About how many distinct languages are spoken in the Philippines?
A) 1
B) 85
C) 100
D) 25
E) 8
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Which of the following phrases best describes the linguistic geography of Southeast Asia? A) There are five distinct languages, and each one can be placed in a different language group.
B) There are several hundred distinct languages that can be placed into five major linguistic groups.
C) There are five languages, and they are all in the same language group.
D) Each island has its own unique language family.
E) Because there are so many languages in this region, ASEAN has required that everyone in the region learn English.
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Which of the following is relatively common in Southeast Asia?
A) major conurbations
B) a megalopolis
C) counterurbanization
D) primate cities
E) gentrification
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What is transmigration?
A) a migration of refugees from one nation to another.
B) a long period of migration stagnation, when a nation's population remains in one region for a significantly long period of time.
C) a government-implemented policy forbidding emigration from a nation in any form.
D) the forced movement of certain citizens to concentration camps.
E) the relocation of a nation's population from one location to another within its national territory.
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What is the most densely settled island of Indonesia?
A) Borneo
B) Java
C) Sumatra
D) Bali
E) Luzon
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Plantation agriculture in Southeast Asia
A) focused primarily on rice in the early part of the twentieth century, however rice is no longer grown on plantations in Southeast Asia.
B) now often focuses on specialty crops like pineapples or rubber.
C) was not prominent historically, however it has been growing in importance in recent decades.
D) is no longer practiced to any significant extent in Malaysia.
E) remains as it was 100 years ago.
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Under what conditions is swidden agriculture sustainable?
A) when the government intervenes to control land use
B) when private entities purchase land for development, minimizing the acreage of land used for swidden agriculture
C) when population densities remain relatively low and stable, and where practitioners of swidden control an adequate amount of land
D) when there is a large number of people to do the hard, manual labor associated with swidden
E) when long-term weather patterns provide adequate moisture and warmth
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Swidden agriculture
A) has benefited significantly from logging operations.
B) is most common on coastal plains.
C) works best in regions of high population density.
D) usually relies on monocrop production.
E) depletes soil nutrients within a few years.
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What country of Southeast Asia has the region's lowest total fertility rate--a rate so low (below replacement level) that without immigration, its population will begin to decline?
A) Burma
B) Cambodia
C) Malaysia
D) Vietnam
E) Singapore
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What is the approximate population of Southeast Asia?
A) 2 million
B) 60 million
C) 130 million
D) 600 million
E) 4000 million