Abeka, 5th Grade, History Test 15, Semester Exam

Iceland

"Land of Fire and Ice", hot springs, geysers, glaciers, tundra are connected to

Norway

"Land of the Midnight Sun", fjords, Oslo are connected to

Be able to locate the following on a map.

1. Amsterdam 2. Bern 3. Brussels 4. Copenhagen 5. Madrid

Be able to locate the following on a map.

1. Australia 2. Canberra 3. Great Dividing Rang 4. Indian Ocean 5. Melanesia 6. Mt. Kosciusko 7. Papua New Guinea 8. Polynesia 9. Vinson Massif 10. Wellington

Be able to locate the following on a map.

1. Hungary 2. Romania 3. Russia 4. Slovakia 5. Ukraine

John G Paton

A famous missionary to the Pacific Islands

industrial center

A place where manufacturing is done is called a(n) _______________

artesian basin

An area of underground water is called an

Vinson Massif

Antarctica's highest peak

wool

Australia is the world's leading producer of

outback

Australia's Central Lowlands and Western Plateau are often called the

Canberra

Australia's capital

Mt. Kosciusko

Australia's highest peak

Murray River

Australia's longest river flowing year-round

eucalyptus

Australia's most important tree, the ___________, is known as a gum tree.

The Land Down Under

Because Australia is completely below the equator it is often called ____________

summer

Because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas come in the

Spain

Cortes, Valencia oranges, The Tidelands, matadors are connected to

czar

Ivan IV was the first ___________ of Russia

Germany

Johann Sebastian Bach, Adolf Hitler, "Land of the Reformation", divided after World War II are connected to

France

John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel Tower; Mont Blanc are connected to

Denmark

Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland are connected to

Communism

Karl Marx was the founder of

the United States

Khrushchev threatened to "bury" ____________

Italy

Leonardo da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mt. Vesuvius are connected to

Papua New Guinea

More languages are spoken in ______ than in any other country in the world.

Wellington

New Zealand's capital

Dardanelles

One of the waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea is the

Port Moresby

Papua New Guinea's capital

Great Purge

Stalin was famous for the

Oceania

The 20,000 - 30,000 islands in the Pacific are called

dingoes

The Australian Dog Fence was built to keep wild dogs known as _________________ away from the sheep.

tundra

The cold, treeless lands north of the Arctic circle are called

Maoris

The early settlers of New Zealand were the

Lenin

The first leader of a Communist state

Charles Wilkes

The first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent was

Roald Amundsen

The first man to reach the South Pole was

Captain James Cook

The first man to sail around the Antarctic Circle was

Mt. Elbrus

The highest peak in Europe is

West Siberian Plain

The largest level region in the world is the

Volga

The longest river in Europe is the

Richard Byrd

The most famous Antarctic explorer was

Pyrenees

The mountains that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe are

Strait of Gibraltar

The narrow waterway separating Europe from Africa is the

Aborigines

The native inhabitants of Australia were the

Melanesia

The part of Oceania with the most people is

Polynesia

The word that means "many island" is

Micronesia

The word that means "small islands" is

Lake Baikal

The world's deepest freshwater lake is

Switzerland

William Tell, neutral republic, landlocked, International Red Cross are connected to

Martin Luther

began the Protestant Reformation

Queen Elizabeth

defeated the Spanish Armada

John Wycliffe

first to translate the Bible into English

Florence Nightingale

founded the modern nursing profession

William Shakespeare

probably the greatest English author

Queen Victoria

promised "I will be good"

Julius Caesar

the Roman general who "crossed the Rubicon"

Vienna

the capital of Austria

Helsinki

the capital of Finland

Berlin

the capital of Germany

Rome

the capital of Italy

Oslo

the capital of Norway

Warsaw

the capital of Poland

Moscow

the capital of Russia

Bern

the capital of Switzerland

Homer

the famous bard of ancient Greece

Augustus Caesar

the first emperor of Rome

Mt. Wilhelm

the hightest island peak in the world

Great Artesian Basin

the largest artesian basin in the world

Great Barrier Reef

the longest coral reef in the world

arctic tern

the migration champion of the world

Scripture

the most important task performed by the monks was copying and preserving the

Crusades

the series of attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks

Punic Wars

the series of wars that Rome fought against Carthage

the Netherlands

tulips, windmills, wooden shoes, dikes, low lands are connected to

democracy

word that is made from the two Greek words for "people" and "rule"