Review Sheet 4
World Regional Geography
*This review sheet complements Review Sheets 1, 2, and 3 – The final exam is cumulative!
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mountain building processes in South Asia
climates of South Asia
sea breeze/land breeze (w/ diagram)
monsoon (winter and summer)
orographic rainfall
Chipko movement
Salinization
Urban South Asia
Hindu nationalism
Sanskrit
caste system
Mughal Empire
Sikhism
Hindi
Urdu
Linguistic nationalism
British East India Company
Independence and partition of British India
Mahatma Gandhi
Green Revolution
Jainism
Grameen Bank
Bangladesh
conflict in Kashmir
maharaja
Nepal
Indian Diaspora
Tibetan Buddhism
Sherpas
mountain hazards in Khumbu Himal
glacial lake outburst floods
climates of Southeast Asia
ASEAN
Karen
Sunda Shelf
typhoons
island biogeography
state territorial morphology
o compact
o elongated
o protruded
o fragmented
o perforated
nation-state
Indochina
Golden Triangle
mainland vs. insular Southeast Asia
Wallace’s Line
Colonial influences in Southeast Asia
Tambora
Krakatoa
2004 Asia tsunami disaster
How tsunamis form
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Maypenrai
causes of rural-to-urban migration in Thailand
transmigration
primate cities
lingua franca
Khmer Rouge
Domino theory
Spratly Islands
Crony capitalism
Ferdinand Marcos
Kleptocracy
Entrepot
Bumiputra
Tiger Economies
economic crisis in Thailand
causes of economic crisis in Thailand
environmental issues in Thailand
landforms of East Asia
Loess Plateau
climates of East Asia
three main factors influencing climates in East
Asia
Three Gorges Dam
Sediment load
pollution exporting
tectonic plates
population patterns in E. Asia
central place theory
urban primacy
superconurbanation
ideographic writing
kanji
hiragana
Confucianism
Mandarins
Shinto
Geomancy
Particularlism
Marxist philosophy
Burakumin
Evolution of China
Spheres of influence
Social and regional differentiation
Rust belt
China’s population quandry
Tibet Situation
Meiji Restoration
relative location of Japan
natural hazards in Japan
Sir Ernest Shackleton
South Georgia
West Wind Drift