Unit 4 Europe Vocabulary Review

The ability to read and write, and countries generally measure it based on the number of individuals who can read or write that are 15 or older.

• Literacy
• Gross Domestic Product
• Standard of Living

A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides

• Peninsula
• Isthmus
• Island

This is an economic indicator that refers to how well or how poorly a person, or group of people live (in terms of having their needs and wants met).

• Standard of Living
• Literacy Rate
• Poverty

A group of people identified by cultural, religious, or national characteristics is:

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Minority

an extreme devotion to a country characterized by a lack of questioning of state authority

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Nationalism

• Optimism

Answer explanation

Nationalism is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland.

adopting new cultural practices, generally from a dominant culture group

• Oligarchic

• Aristocratic

• Authoritarian

• Assimilation

Answer explanation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group

a collection of multiple states that make up a larger group that goes beyond national borders

• Supranational

• Supernatural

• Supreme

• Tourist

Answer explanation

The EU, United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are all supranational groups, to one degree or another. In the EU, each member votes on policies that will affect each other's member nation within Europe.

is the condition needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor and capital

• Factors of Production

• Cultural Diffusion

• Line of Demarcation

• Melting Pot

Answer explanation

The four factors of production are: Land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship

an area of land that includes lines of transportation, like railroads, highways, canals

• transportation corridor

• supranational organization

• nationalism

• ethnicity

large man-made structures generally created for the public to remember an event or individual

• assimilation

• monumental architecture

• transportation corridor

• service industries