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Unit 4 Map Quiz

Part I: Label the following on the map below by writing the corresponding letter for each region:

E Strait of Malacca C Suez Canal H Ukraine

L Strait of Hormuz B Strait of Gibraltar I Former Yugoslavia Region

A Panama Canal G Vietnam K The Middle East

D Bab El-Mandeb Strait F Korea J Caucasus Shatterbelt

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Part II: Answer the following questions below.

1. Why might a nation seek control over a strait? Use economic nationalism in your response.

2. Describe the process of Balkanization.

3. Choose one of the following major chokepoints: Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Panama
Canal, Bab El-Mandeb Strait, or Suez Canal. What would happen if this chokepoint closed?

4. Name a major strait and identify TWO countries that hold the strait within their waters.

Extra Credit: Identify one cause of instability in a shatterbelt today. Name the shatterbelt.

Name TWO modern countries that were once part of Yugoslavia.