GEO 207 WEEK 8 QUIZ II
1 The UNCLOS allows states to claim all resources within a(n) _____________ that extends up to 200 nautical miles from their coasts.
a. Special Administrative Region
b. Exclusive Economic Zone
c. Underwater Protrusion
d. Extraterritorial Zone
e. Territorial Sea
2. A territorial sea is:
a. an adjacent area of the ocean where all of the rights of a coastal state prevail
b. a body of water completely surrounded by a state
c. a small body of water that connects to larger bodies of water
d. identical to the term "high seas"
e. an area where a state has no rights to exploit minerals
3. When a body of water is less than 24 nautical miles wide, the boundary between the states on each shore is drawn along the:
a. Wallace's line
b. median line
c. right of left bank
d. Political Convergence Line
e. deepest channel
4. Which country temporarily withdrew from UNCLOS as an indirect result of the independence of East Timor?
a. Australia
b. Indonesia
c. New Guinea
d. East Timor
e. New Zealand
5. In territorial size, the largest country in Melanesia is:
a. Solomon Islands
b. Fiji
c. Papua New Guinea
d. Hawai'i
e. Easter Island
6. The island of New Guinea is included in the Pacific region known as:
a. Melanesia
b. Micronesia
c. Polynesia
d. Insular Southeast Asia
e. Indonesia
7. Which of the following is located in Melanesia
a. Guam
b. Tahiti
c. Vanuatu
d. Somoa
e. Hawai'i
8. The largest cluster of population in Melanesia is found in:
a. Papua New Guinea
b. Fiji
c. Vanuatu
d. samoa
e. New Caledonia
9. The people of New Guinea are:
a. mostly Chinese
b. Polynesian
c. Indonesian in their ancestry
d. of Dutch descent
e. Papuans
10. Papua New Guinea has faced an insurgency movement in:
a. Micronesia
b. neighboring Indonesia
c. Fiji
d. Timor
e. Bougainville
11. Prior to independence, New Guinea was administered by:
a. Australia
b. New Zealand
c. the Netherlands
d. Indonesia
e. Papua
12. Bougainville was made part of Papua New Guinea because:
a. it is geographically closest to Papua New Guinea
b. of the much-needed revenues its copper mines would bring to PNG
c. the people did not want independence, fearing takeover by the Solomon Islands
d. Indonesia felt that such an arrangement would allow them to continue to dominate the area
e. none of the above
13. Which of the following about New Caledonia is false?
a. It has significant nickel resources.
b. It remains under British rule.
c. It is inhabited by only about 240,000 persons.
d. Its capital is Noumea.
e. It lies within Melanesia
14. Which of the following is false about Fiji?
a. Nearly 800,000 people live on about 100 islands.
b. Large numbers of Australians have retired to the islands.
c. South Asians arrived during the colonial era to work on the sugar plantations.
d. The South Asians have long been political activists.
e. The South Asians have dominated the commercial life of the country.
15. Which of the following is located in Micronesia?
a. Hawaiian Islands
b. Marshall Islands
c. New Caledonia
d. Solomon Islands
e. Papua New Guinea
16. The better-watered volcanic islands, where the economy is based upon agriculture, are known as:
a. high islands
b. low islands
c. Melanesian islands
d. Micronesian islands
e. Polynesian islands
17. The dominant economic activity with high-island cultures is:
a. tourism
b. fishing
c. agriculture
d. mining
e. industry
18. The Pacific region called_______takes its name from the word for many, and is contained within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand, Easter island, and the Hawaiian Islands.
a. Polynesia
b. Amnesia
c. Micronesia
d. Melanesia
e. Oceania
19. Regionally, the Hawaiian Islands are part of:
a. Melanesia
b. Micronesia
c. Polynesia
d. the Pacific Rim
e. North America
20. Which of the following countries has made no claim to territory in Antarctica?
a. Chile
b. Argentina
c. Australia
d. the United Kingdom
e. the United States
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