Question

Analyze the map below and answer the question that follows.

A map of Asia with Southeast Asian countries highlighted. Two bodies of water are labeled A and B. A is near India between Africa and Malaysia and Singapore. B is east of Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan.
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The letters A and B mark two bodies of water that surround Southeast Asia, the __________.
A.
Mediterranean and Red Seas
B.
Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
C.
Indian and Pacific Oceans
D.
Bering and White Seas

Answer 1

C. Indian and Pacific Oceans

A is the Indian Ocean (southwest of Southeast Asia near India), and B is the Pacific Ocean (east of Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan).