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Europe & Russia Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The belief people should be loyal to their nation. People with whom they share land, culture, and history with.

a)

Feudalism

b)

Federalism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Americanism

2.

Organize these options into the right categories

Categorize the following

France, Germany, & the United Kingdom

Communist governments

Belarus, Poland, & Bulgaria

High standard of living

Low standard of living

Protestant & Roman Catholic

Orthodox Christianity

"Buffer states"

Most members of NATO

Western Europe
Eastern Europe
3.

Citizens in a democratic country can demonstrate civic engagement by ​ ​ (a)   and by ​ ​ ​ (b)   .

Choose from the below words
attending town hall meetings
avoiding community discussions
voting
ignoring elections
4.

What does nationality refer to?

a)

A person's cultural traditions.

b)

A person's physiological traits.

c)

A person's legal attachment to a country.

d)

A person's skin color.

5.
Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics
a)
cultural, physical
b)
physical, cultural
c)
achieved, ascribed
d)
citizenship, cultural
6.

Which of these landforms contributed the MOST to the development of ethnic differences throughout Europe?

a)

Plateaus

b)

Plains

c)

Seas

d)

Mountains

7.

All of the following affect the location of cities EXCEPT --

a)

Latitude

b)

Trade routes

c)

Immigration patterns

d)

Traditions

8.

Where did the Chernobyl disaster take place?

a)

Russia

b)

Ukraine

c)

Belarus

d)

Soviet Union

9.

What was one effect of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion?

a)

Nuclear power plants everywhere were closed.

b)

Drinking water was contaminated.

c)

People got sick but not animals.

d)

Air pollution began to improve.

10.

Russians migrated to other Soviet republics during the middle of the twentieth century to rebuild cities, find new jobs, and farmers needed to grow crops on available land. What category would these reasons fall under?

a)

social reasons

b)

cultural reasons

c)

political reasons

d)

economic reasons

11.

What happened as a result of the Chernobyl power plant explosion in Ukraine?

a)

The population near Chernobyl was devastated with radiation diseases

b)

The people decided to not use nuclear power any more

c)

The government continued to thrive in Russia

d)

The government made more money as a result of the Chernobyl disaster

12.
What is an enormous mass of ice moving over land?
a)
Ice wedging
b)
Glacier
c)
Iceberg
d)
Dune
13.

What is a political border?

a)

A line or area used to identify the area of control of a state.

b)

Boundaries that are drawn based off divisions in culture.

c)

Boundaries that are based off physical features like mountains.

d)

A system in which a people with a shared culture live within one firm border.

14.

What defines a nation-state?

a)

A system in which a people with a shared culture or background live within one firm border and a single government.

b)

A body of people that share a common origin, history, culture, ethnicity, or language.

c)

An independent political entity with a fixed boundary.

d)

A nation or group of people with a common history that have no place to call home.

15.
Identity/connection with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
a)
Ethnicity
b)
Nationality
c)
Race
d)
Religion
16.
A group of people who have certain things in common: cultural heritage, beliefs and values, claim to a particular space as their homeland, desire to establish their own state or express self-determination (a cultural unit)
a)
State
b)
Country
c)
Nation
d)
Race
17.
A country that contains more than one ethnicity
a)
Multiethnic State
b)
Multistate Nation
c)
Nation-State
d)
Microstate
18.

In a __________, the territory occupied by a group who view themselves as a nation is the same as the politically recognized boundaries of the state they call their own. (Think Iceland or Japan)

a)

Nation-State

b)

nation

c)

State

d)

Multistate nation

e)

Multinational State