Which five countries and one city-state make up Southeast Asias mainland?

Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore

What is the Ring of Fire?
Ring of volcanoes and plate boundaries around the pacific
Where are volcanic eruptions more typical in this region?
Indonesia
What happened in 1815 to Mount Tambora?
Mount Tambora spewed out so much ash that it blocked solar energy in many places in the
world; even the US and Europe were affected.
What is the common topography of this region?
Mountainous
What do mountains function as?
Natural Barriers
What have waterways served as for this region, and what have they made Southeast Asia
into?
Waterways served as trade routes, which developed those countries
What is the most dominant waterway for this area?
Pacific Ocean
What are the five major rivers of this area?
The Mekong, the Red River, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, and the Chao Phraya

What are the two climates of this region?

What are the two seasons in this area?

What does biodiversity mean?

What industries does Southeast Asia partake in?

What is a shatter belt?

What is a buffer zone?

Who colonized Indonesia? Burma? Malaysia? The Philippines? Vietnam, Cambodia, and
Laos?

Where did the first independence movement begin in this region?

What event started the independence movement in this region?

What divided Vietnam, and what kind of government were they finally unified under?

Describe the conflict in Thailand.

Describe soil productivity differences between the mainland and volcanic islands.
Where is population density greatest?

What is the largest minority ethnic group in this region?

What is the most common religion in Southeast Asia?

What has Vietnam historically served as, and what is particularly unique about this?

Describe the role of women in this region.

What was the economic boom of the 80s based on?

What are emerging markets?

What is Southeast Asias leading economic activity?

What was the city-state of Singapore originally founded as?

What is a free port?

Whose population has the highest standard of living in the subregion?

What is the ADB? ASEAN?

What threatens plant and animal species that do not exist anywhere else on Earth as well
as some of the last remaining rainforests?

What is shifting cultivation and why is it bad?

What three island groups make up Oceania?

How are these groupings based?

What does Melanesia mean and what are some countries in this group?

What does Micronesia mean and what are some countries in this group?

What does Polynesia mean and what are some countries in this group?

What type of islands do earthquakes and volcanic eruptions still occur and what is this
type of island?
What are low islands, what are they also known as, and describe the state of their soil
and resource supply?

What are lagoons?

What is the largest body of water on the planet?

Where has the worlds greatest ocean depth been measured?

What are most trenches located next to?

What do the small islands of Oceania depend heavily on?

What kind of water do high islands have?

Low islands?

What climate does most of Oceania have?

What does being an endemic species mean?

What helps offset the lack of natural resources on many of the islands?

Who was the person of highest status in many of the island societies?

What are kinship groups?

What does being matrilineal mean?

What changes did Europeans bring to the peoples of Oceania?

What are trust territories?

What was the first Pacific Island to win freedom.

Describe the governments in this region.

How are people in the Solomon Islands building a strong relationship to the land?

Who were probably the first people to settle the islands of Oceania?

What did the migration between islands mean about the people?

What have historians been using to date the arrival of the first people to these islands?
Where does the largest population of Polynesians live?

Which country has the largest population out of all the islands?

What blend of regions have shaped the cultures of societies in Oceania?

What is pidgin English?

What is the most widely practiced religion in Oceania and who was it introduced by?

Describe education disparities in this region.

Describe the family structure and status of women in this region.

What kind of economic activities does this region partake in?

What is tabu?

What is terracing?

What benefits does crop diversification have?

What natural structures hold only limited supplies of freshwater and what improvements
can be made to sustain clean drinking water?

What is a major threat posed by climate change?

Describe the effects of nuclear weapons testing to the islands.