Chapter 8 Review

**Please get into groups of 4-5 people

**One sheet of notebook paper per group
Ch. 8 Trivia Challenge
Write a team name on the top of your paper
Rounds will last 5 minutes
During a round, 5 questions will be posted on the board
You will write down the answers to the questions on the paper
Once the five minutes are up, turn-in paper to me
Ill grade the papers and read the scores
You may use notes, the textbook, and your brain
NO CELL PHONES
Slides will be posted on Google Classroom later today so you can use it to
study
Good luck!
Round #1
1. How many countries and territories are in the world?
2. Before 1940, most countries were still colonies on
what continent?
3. A place with a permanent population and a defined
territory is called what?
4. What peace treaty created the modern European
state system?
5. What word is used by geographers to describe
control over space and time?
Round #1 Answers
1. 200
2. Africa
3. State/Country
4. Westphalia
5. Sovereignty
Round #2
1. What type of economy is based on the idea of the
mother country controlling the trade and production
of their colonies?
2. What group proved the undoing of monarchical
absolutism?
3. What is the name of the people who live in the Gaza
Strip and West Bank?
4. What is the largest stateless nation?
5. How did the European state idea spread?
Round #2 Answers
1. Mercantilism
2. Merchants/Middle Class
3. Palestinians
4. Kurds/Kurdish Nation
5. Colonialism
Round #3
1. The World Systems Theory states that the global
integrating force is what?
2. What conference divided up Africa in the late 1800s?
3. What type of government is highly centralized and
suppresses regional subcultures?
4. The movement of power from the central
government to regional governments is called what?
5. What is the name of the law that is practiced in some
Muslim countries?
Round #3 Answers
1. Capitalism
2. Berlin
3. Unitary Government System
4. Devolution
5. Sharia Law
 Round #4
1. When distance and remoteness enhance the potential
for devolution, what is it called?
2. What is it called when the number of representatives
shifts in relation to the population?
3. The boundary of a country extends up and down to
what?
4. When people fight about water on a boundary, what
type of boundary dispute is it?
5. What plan was written to help rebuild Europe after
WWII?
Round #4 Answers
1. Territorial Devolution
2. Reapportionment
3. Rocks/Sky
4. Allocation Boundary Dispute
5. Marshall Plan
Round #5
1. What is it called when more than 3 nations form an
alliance for a common goal?
2. What country did not join the League of Nations?
3. What is it called when the electoral district is
redrawn in order to take political advantage?
4. In order to join the UN, one must commit to what?
5. Who created the League of Nations?
Round #5 Answers
1. Supranational Organization
2. USA
3. Gerrymandering
4. International Standards of
Behavior
5. President Woodrow Wilson