Unit 9 Vocabulary Quiz

a political division made up of a city and surrounding area

• Territory

• city-state

• County

• Government

government where the leader has unlimited power and severely limits the rights of the citizens.

• Dictatorship

• Communism

• Ring of Fire

• Soviet Union

type of government where there is a command economy and rights of the people are limited

• Dictatorship

• Communism

• Ring of Fire

• Soviet Union

A chain of islands

• Vacation

• Hawaii

• Ring of FIre

• Archipelago

an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean

• Archipelago

• Ring of Fire

• Globalization

• Eruption

the growing connectedness of different regions of the world resulting in the spread of culture, ideas, disease, goods, and technologies

• Modernization

• Urbanization

• Globalization

• Deforestation

the process of adjusting to the surrounding conditions

• Communication

• Globalization

• Urbanization

• Adaptation

process of changing the environment

• Modification

• Adaptation

• Globalization

• Urbanization

island formed by tectonic plate movement that causes the rising and folding of the ocean floor

• Globalization

• Earthquake

• Continental Island

• Ring of Fire

a portion of a continent that is submerged under the ocean and gradually slopes away from the continent.

• Continental Island

• Tsunami

• Erosion

• Continental Shell