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4 Social Studies Ch 3

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

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1.

 MANY PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LITTLE HAVANA HAVE A CUBAN BACKGROUND.  WHAT KIND OF A REGION IS THIS?

a)

A cultural region

b)

A political region

c)

A physical region

d)

An economic region

2.

 WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT REGIONS IS FALSE?

a)

 Technology helps connect regions.

b)

Regions depend on one another.

c)

Regions are all the same.

d)

Regions change when people modify them.

3.

 Into how many regions do we group all of the states?

a)

Three

b)

Four

c)

Five

d)

Six

4.

WHY IS WASHINGTON D.C. AN EXAMPLE OF A POLITICAL REGION?

a)

Many government leaders live there.

b)

Government is the largest employer in the area.

c)

It is a city where people share a government.

d)

It is not part of any state.

5.

WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES?

a)

 Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

b)

Federal, State, and local governments

c)

State, Country, City

d)

Federal, District, Borough

6.

 WHICH OF THESE POLITICAL REGIONS SHARE THE WORLD'S LONGEST UNPROTECTED BORDER?

a)

Canada and the U.S.

b)

Mexico and the U.S.

c)

Canada and Greenland

d)

Central America and Caribbean Islands

7.

INTO WHAT KINDS OF POLITICAL REGIONS IS MEXICO DIVIDED?

a)

Commonwealth

b)

Provinces

c)

States

d)

Territories

8.

 WHAT IS A COMMONWEALTH?

a)

a former state of the U.S.

b)

a country that shares a border with the U.S.

c)

a country that trades with the U.S.

d)

a territory of the U.S. that governs itself

9.

All regions are interdependent. What does this mean?

a)

Regions are all the same size

b)

Regions share a landform

c)

Regions depend on one another for resources, products, and services

d)

Regions are only political

10.

Why do people divide regions into political regions?

a)

It helps people live and govern in an organized way, and makes places easier to describe/understand

b)

It keeps the resources in each state safe from other states

c)

It helps people stay in their communities

d)

It helps interdependence

11.

What kinds of features can be used to define a physical region?

a)

borders on a map

b)

landforms, rivers, oceans, lakes, vegetation, elevation, wildlife

c)

by the government that works there

d)

by the culture that lives there

12.

How can forms of communication connect regions?

a)

They allow people to see and hear what is happening in different regions

b)

It connects the mountain ranges

c)

Computers help grow natural resources

d)

They do not connect regions at all.

13.

What are some ways that people modify their environment to meet their needs?

a)

clearing forests

b)

plowing land, digging mines and wells

c)

putting dams in rivers and making new lakes

d)

all of them!

14.

What country is this?

a)

The United States

b)

Greenland

c)

Central America

d)

Canada

15.

What country is this?

a)

Canada

b)

Mexico

c)

The United States

d)

Greenland

16.

What country is this?

a)

Greenland

b)

Mexico

c)

Central America

d)

Canada

17.

What are these countries called?

a)

The United States

b)

Canada

c)

Central America

d)

Greenland

18.

What country is this?

a)

Greenland

b)

Canada

c)

Mexico

d)

The United States