Unit 4 check
Unit 4 check: Political Patterns and Processes
10 questions from 10 lessons in Unit 4. Answer each one, and if you miss, follow the link back to where it is taught, then try again. Your score counts first tries.
Question 1 · from 4.1 · Sort it
Each card describes a hypothetical place. Tap a card, then the bin it belongs in.
An independent state
Not an independent state
Question 2 · from 4.2 · Decide and justify
The Ilo, a nation inside hypothetical Country Marr, hold a vote and choose to form a state of their own. Marr's government says the vote changes nothing, because Marr alone governs all the land inside its borders. Which idea is Marr's government appealing to?
Which reason supports your answer?
Question 3 · from 4.3 · Fill the statement
Hypothetical Country Lusa won its independence from Country Varn decades ago. Today Varn's banks hold most of Lusa's debt, and Varn's companies own Lusa's largest mines. Complete the description.
Lusa's own elected government makes its laws, so Varn's power over Lusa today is not . Varn steers Lusa's economy through instead, which makes its power over Lusa .
Question 4 · from 4.4 · Select all
Officials of a foreign empire drew a boundary along a single line of longitude, straight through the farmland of the hypothetical Hesu people, who had lived there for centuries. The line still divides two states today. Which two types describe it? Select two.
Select 2 answers, then check.
Question 5 · from 4.5 · Rank it
Hypothetical Country Osk's coast faces open ocean, with no other country's coast within 400 nautical miles. Four foreign fishing boats are fishing at these distances from Osk's baseline. Rank the boats by how much of Osk's law applies to each one.
Most of Osk's law first
Give each one a place, 1 for first. Give two the same place if they are equal.
Your ranking: none yet
Question 6 · from 4.6 · Fill the statement
The legislature of the hypothetical state of Dalen draws a new map for Dalen's six seats.
Party B has 42 percent of Dalen's voters, and the new map gives Party B about 42 percent of the voters in every district. This move is , and it will most likely leave Party B with seats than its share of the vote.
Setup for question 7
Hypothetical Country Zell is divided into eight regions. Each region has a capital and an elected assembly. The table shows which level of government decides each matter under Zell's constitution, and whether the national parliament can change that on its own.
| Matter | Decided by | Can the national parliament change this alone? |
|---|---|---|
| Defense and the currency | National government | Yes |
| Highways between regions | National government | Yes |
| Schools | Each region's assembly | No: the constitution gives it to the regions |
| Police | Each region's assembly | No: the constitution gives it to the regions |
Question 7 · from 4.7 · Multiple choice
Which statement best describes Zell's form of governance?
Setup for question 8
Hypothetical Country Selva has four regions outside its capital region, and each has a movement asking for more self-rule. A geographer collects these facts about each region. Income per person is shown with Selva's average set to 100.
| Region | Main language | Income per person (Selva = 100) | Other facts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amar | Selvan, the national language | 190 | Its largest party wants Amar to keep more of its own taxes |
| Bell | Selvan, the national language | 100 | A wide desert, crossed by one road, separates it from the capital |
| Cora | Coran, the national language of neighboring Country Dess | 95 | Dess's government says Cora belongs in Dess |
| Dun | Dunic, spoken nowhere else | 100 | A Dunic party wants Dun to become an independent state |
Question 8 · from 4.8 · Multiple choice
What do the data for Amar imply about its push for self-rule?
Setup for question 9
Five hypothetical states on the Teal Coast formed the Teal Coast Compact. Each member's government signed the rules below, and the Compact's council can fine a member that breaks them.
| Rule | What every member agrees to |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charge no tariffs on goods made in another member state |
| 2 | Keep its yearly tuna catch within the limit the council sets, because the tuna swim through every member's waters |
| 3 | Send troops to help any member that is invaded |
| 4 | Let the Compact's observers watch every national election |
| 5 | Sell packaged food only if it meets the Compact's shared standards, so food made in any member can be sold in every member |
Question 9 · from 4.9 · Multiple choice
A new president of Navara, one of the Compact's members, wants to bar the Compact's observers from Navara's next national election. Which statement best describes Navara's position?
Question 10 · from 4.10 · Sort it
Each card describes a hypothetical case. Tap a card, then the kind of force it is a consequence of.
Consequence of centrifugal forces
Consequence of centripetal forces
0 of 10 answered.