Geography Final   Which of the following is true of Hindiusm? Why have countries been major supporters of the conventions to limit the production of greenhouse gases? What is the greatest potential environmental threat to Oceania? High islands what? An atoll typically has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT What causes a tsunami? What event sets off the process that creates an atoll? The Hawaiian islands were formed by ______________ Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall islands are already experiencing disastrous flooding related to global climate change

1. Which of the following is true of Hindiusm?

Hinduism lacks a single, uniformly accepted belief system

2. Why have countries been major supporters of the conventions to limit the production of greenhouse gases?

greenhouse gas emissions are directly related to the global temperature increase and as sea levels rise, many of the Pacific islands will be drowned if global temperatures continue to increase

3. What is the greatest potential environmental threat to Oceania?

climate change

4. High islands what?

are present throughout much of Oceania

5. An atoll typically has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

a high central peak

6. What causes a tsunami?

an earthquake

7. What event sets off the process that creates an atoll?

erosion

8. The Hawaiian islands were formed by ______________

an active hot spot beneath the moving Pacific plate

9. Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall islands are already experiencing disastrous flooding related to global climate change. What has been the response of the people on these islands?

several thousand islanders have left their homes and migrated to New Zealand