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6th Grade SS Final Exam Review
1. Be able to identify on a
blank map
2. The country with the
largest land mass in Europe
2015-16
Name _____________________
Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, U.K.,
Poland, Belgium
3. What provides the raw
materials needed for
producing goods?
4. People who take risks in
order to make money
5. The leader of the
government in the UK
6. The leader of the
government in the UK is
chosen from this group
7. The citizens of this country UK, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy
have the least amount of
personal freedom (circle one)
8. The form of government
that allows its citizens the
most personal freedom
9. 2 major trading benefits
between countries that use
the euro
10. Why do people in Europe
often speak more than one
language?
11. How is a country’s
standard of living related to
the country’s literacy rate?
12. What event was an
immediate cause of WWI?
13. What long-term factors
led up to WWI? (give 3)
14. What is the Holocaust?
15. Why is Chernobyl,
Ukraine important?
16. What is included in one’s
culture?
17. Why is the EU
considered a major
economic force in the world?
18. 2 major benefits to
citizens who live in countries
that use the euro (eurozone)?
19. Who elects members of
the House of Commons?
20. Which explorer sailed
west to reach the East?
21. What area did Prince
Henry focus on learning
more about? What
motivated him to send
explorers here?
22. Europe’s standard of
living is high. This allows
citizens and governments
pay attention to issues
concerning: (circle one and
explain why)
23. Why is location on a
waterway a benefit for a
country?
24. Explain how Canada
achieved it’s independence
from Britain?
25. Explain the feeling of the
Separatists in Modern
Quebec. What do they want
to do?
26. List the physical features
that the United States shares
with Canada?
Literacy rate, economy, environment, religion, trading
partners
27. How do the harmful
effects of acid rain
demonstrate
interdependence among
countries?
28. Explain why Canada
has two official languages.
What are they?
29. Most democracies have
a government with three
branches: executive,
legislative and judicial. List
and name (specifically) these
branches in Canada. (What
are they called?)
30. List the ways British
influence can be seen in
Canada’s current system of
government.
31. The Panama Canal
connects which two oceans?
32. Which South American
river flows for nearly 4,000
miles before it flows into the
Atlantic Ocean?
33. The island of Cuba lies
90 miles off the coast of
Florida. Why is the location
of Cuba a concern to the
United States?
34. Brazil’s Amazon region is
in danger from which threat
to its environment?
35. Describe the results of
European exploration of the
Americas in the 1400s and
1500s on the native
populations?
36. Explain why European
diseases like Smallpox had
such a devastating effect on
Native Americans?
37. Which two European
nations have had the largest
impact on the development
of Central America and the
Caribbean?
38. A book about the history
of Latin America during the
1800s would have a chapter
in it with which title?
39. Which country in the
Americas is the only
communist nation with a
dictator?
40. Give an example of what
it looks like when countries
specialize.
41. What effect has the
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) had on
the Mexican economy?
42. The people who assume
risk by bringing natural, labor
and capital resources
together to produce goods
and services are known as
what?
43. What is the Great Barrier
Reef?
44. Explain the fate of the
Aborigines after the arrival of
the British.
45. How did the arrival of the
British influence the religion
of Australia?
46. Where did the Aborigines
originate from?
47. What was unique about
some of the colonists that
Great Britain sent to
Australia in the 1700’s?
48. Who is the head of state
of Australia? What does this
mean?
49. Australia’s economy
depends on mining and
farming.
50. Australia’s economy
depends on mining and
farming. What effect, if any,
does this have on Australia’s
exports?