WorksheetsChapter 6 Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 2hrs 55mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The movement of peoples within a country or region.
a)
migration
b)
immigration
c)
journey
d)
trip
2.
the movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration.
a)
triangular trade
b)
columbian exchange
c)
silk roads
d)
cumberland gap
3.
the territory, including the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, that the United States purchased from France in 1803.
a)
Oklahoma Land Grant
b)
French connection
c)
Louisiana Purchase
d)
Westward expansion
4.
the free, open land in the American West that was available for settlement.
a)
west
b)
manifest destiny
c)
gold rush
d)
frontier
5.
a political unit or community touching the borders of the central city or touching other suburbs that touch the city.
a)
town
b)
city
c)
suburb
d)
village
6.
a government in which the people rule through elected representatives.
a)
appointed democracy
b)
representative democracy
7.
a product or a good that is sold from one economy to another.
a)
supply
b)
import
c)
export
d)
demand
8.
an economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government.
a)
free enterprise
b)
communism
c)
socialism
d)
toaism
9.
any kind of economic activity that produces a service rather than a product.
a)
service industry
b)
production industry
10.
an economic phase in which manufacturing no longer plays a dominant role.
a)
pre-industrial economy
b)
post-industrial economy
c)
industrial economy
d)
tertiary activity
11.
a corporation that engages in business worldwide.
a)
prestige worldwide
b)
multinational
c)
nationalism
d)
wall street
12.
the six northern states in the Northeast United States - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
a)
southwest
b)
New England
c)
Newfoundland
d)
Boswash
13.
a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas have grown together.
a)
the metroplex
b)
metropolis
c)
megalopolis
d)
polis
14.
a region of the United States that contains the 12 states of the north-central United States.
a)
The North
b)
The Northeast
c)
The Southwest
d)
The Midwest
15.
a region that covers about one-fourth of the land area of the United States and contains more than one-third of its population.
a)
The southwest
b)
The south
c)
The West
d)
The southeast
16.
a functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically.
a)
metropolitan area
b)
rural area
c)
urban area
d)
backwoods area
17.
North American region, consisting of 13 states, that stretches from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and includes Alaska to the north and Hawaii in the Pacific.
a)
The East
b)
The West
c)
The southwest
d)
The deep south
18.
a portion of public land given by a government to an organization or an individual.
a)
gift
b)
land grant
c)
land sell
d)
land adoption
19.
the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior to different societies.
a)
diffusion
b)
acculturation
c)
convergence
d)
divergent
20.
the major cattle drive route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
a)
Trail of Tears
b)
San Antonio Trail
c)
Chisholm Trail
d)
Dexter Trail
21.
the abandoned mission and fort near San Antonio where Texans battled Mexican forces in 1833.
a)
La Bahia
b)
Goliad
c)
The Alamo
d)
Gonzales
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