WorksheetsWorld Geo Unit 3 Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 16mins
The polder allow the Dutch people to do what?
Reclaim land from the sea
Live in the far north of Europe
Build houses over open canals
Adapt to the desert environments of the Netherlands
What is Venice famous for?
Its windmills that drain coastal marshes
Its many canals and wood piles that support its buildings
Its history as a trading city and citizens like Marco Polo
For the wooden shoes people wear throughout the city
Which body of water in central Asia is shrinking almost to the point of disappearing
The Black Sea
The Arctic Sea
The Caspian Sea
The Aral Sea
Which of the following is a cause of the Aral Sea's evaporation?
Water from feeder rivers were diverted to irrigate cropland
The cold winter winds from the Siberian Plain dry the land
The World Bank built a dam at Kokaral that stopped the flow
The Soviet Union outlawed fishing in the sea
What connected the large cities of Russia's North European Plain with the distant reaches of east Russia along its Pacific Coast?
The Royal Romanov Highway
The Trans-Siberian Railway
The Cross Russian Expressway
The St. Petersburg-Vladivostok Causeway
The Irish used peat as a substitute for what fossil fuel that is not found in great abundance in Ireland.
Andesite
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
The Soviet Union (also called the USSR) was created after which events? (Select all that apply)
The Treaty of Versailles
The Cold War
The Bolshevik Revolution
The Second World War
What major resource allowed the United Kingdom to power its factories during the Industrial Revolution?
Peat
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
Which person posted the "99 Theses" and is often credited with beginning the Protestant Reformation?
Pope Alexander VI
John Theses
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Which form of government ruled ancient Athens and inspired later government in the United States?
Monarchy
Communism
Democracy
Dictatorship
Which feature of the Roman republic later form the foundation for a US institution of government.
Consuls
The Senate
Strict citizenship laws
Dictatorship of Caesar
In Britain, legal documents limited the power of the kings. What form of monarch has its power limited in that way?
Constitutional Monarchy
Autocratic Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Divine Monarchy
Renaissance led to a "rebirth" of intellectual thought and expression in Europe. From where did many renaissance thinkers and artists take inspiration?
The Romans
The Chinese
The Greeks
The Russians
The division between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1000 AD is known as the __________.
The Great Schism
The Council of Trent
The Edict of Milan
The Filioque Clause
Which disease spread through Europe in the 1300s and caused widespread death and change in society?
The Black Plague
COVID-19
The Spanish Death
The Influenza
Which economic system is based on private ownership of property and the free exchange of goods on the open market?
Captialism
Communism
Fascism
Socialism
Balkanization refers to which process...
process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units
process of an ethnic group getting into conflict with its neighboring states
process of urbanizing over a given period of time
process of industrialization that occurs as a direct result of capitalism
Which major event in the Balkan peninsula resulted in the mass murder of many Muslims and others in the 1990s?
The Balkan Massacres
The Crusades
The Bosnian Genocide
The Holocaust
Which organization is a confederation of European states working together for their mutual benefit and which has a shared, common currency?
NATO
UN
EU
NAFTA
Which of the following were reasons democratic leaders appeased Hitler in the lead up to World War Two
Memory of the losses during WW1
Unease about the terms of the Versailles treaty
The democracies' close alliance with the Soviet Union
Hope for compromise with Germany
The general unconcern in the democracies about Hitler' regime
Which organizations did the United States lead after the Second World War in order to prevent the spread of communism?
NATO
The League of Nations
The Anti-Comintern Pact
EU
What is a satellite nation?
A country that the follows the orders of a stronger nation which dominates it
A country who sphere of influence extends over other, smaller states in a given region
A country that shares power with other states in its orbit
A country that is a colony of an imperialist power
Which of the following were causes of the Russian revolution?
Huge loss of Russian life during WW1 that caused many to resent Russian's government
Communist revolutionaries gaining strength in Russia during the war
The mistakes and missteps of the last Tsar/Czar, Peter II
The strategic defeat of German forces by the Imperial Russian Army
The areas in red show the extent of the British empire prior to World War One. What term do historian use to refer to empire building?
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Appeasment
What was one Christian goal during the Crusades?
Eliminate the Orthodox heretics from Catholicism
Capture the holy sites in Jerusalem from Muslims
Secure trade routes to the new world
Ensure an inquisition of non-Christians in Palestine
In Britain, legal documents limited the power of the kings. What form of monarch has its power limited in that way?
Constitutional Monarchy
Autocratic Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Divine Monarchy
Balkanization refers to which process...
process of a region breaking up into small, mutually hostile units
process of an ethnic group getting into conflict with its neighboring states
process of urbanizing over a given period of time
process of industrialization that occurs as a direct result of capitalism
One negative consequence of the high levels of urbanization in Western and Central Europe is...
More rural infrastructure
Air pollution
Increased agricultural output
Increased manufacturing output
