Mr.Tranquill Europe test
Name these in order according to elevation: Balkan mountains, Cambrian mountains,Coast of the Netherlands, Denmark, Alps
Balkan- Two, Cambrian - three, coast of the Netherlands - five, Denmark - four, Alps -One
What are the four mountain ranges in the Alpine mountain system?
Balkans,Carpathians, Pyrenees,Alps,
What is the European Union candidate country?
Belarus
Where is most of Romania is urban area?
Bucharest
What is the boundary between Europe and Asia?
Caucasus Mountains
Where is the Central uplands located?
Central Spain/France, Germany (in between Northwest highlands and Alpine MS)
What is Europe's most widespread land use for?
Commercial farming
What kind of climate does Romania have?
Continental
What problems faced the Balkan peninsula?
Cultures have been isolated, rugged lamd
What country has the city of Ostrava?
Czech Republic
What country has the highest percent of damage trees?
Czech Republic
What aspects of culture do the Scandinavian countries share?
Democracy, equality,love of nature, language, travel, education, jobs
Is the southernmost Scandinavian country?
Denmark
Where is the Jutland peninsula located?
Denmark
What's Scandinavian countries are part of NATO?
Denmark, Norway , and Iceland
What Scandinavian countries are part of the European Union?
Denmark, Sweden, and Finland
What kind of climate does South Eastern Europe have?
Dry
What three major physical features are in Eastern Europe?
Eastern European plains, Alpine mountain system, Siberian plain and Upland
What is Europe's currency?
Euros
Which way of life is more common in Eastern Europe than Western Europe?
Farming
What are the countries in Scandinavia?
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden
What is Iceland's main industry?
Fishing
What industries in Scandinavia are popular?
Fishing, timber, hydroelectricity, shipping, natural gas, petroleum
How many countries make up Scandinavia?
Five
Polenz three major Lynn uses our commercial farming, urban, and what?
Forestry
What country has the city of Munich?
Germany
What is Europe's largest island?
Great Britain
What country has the city of Ioanina?
Greece
What country has the city Gyor?
Hungary
Name the five peninsulas in Europe
Iberian, Italian, Scandinavian, Balkan, Jutland
What is Europe's least densely populated country?
Iceland
What major historical event began in England during the late 1700s?
Industrial revolution
What country has the city of Milan?
Italy
Where is the Italian peninsula located?
Italy
In Denmark what peninsula is it part of?
Jutland
Riga is a national capital of what?
Latvia
Why is Eastern Europe less densely populated the Western?
Less favorable weather, difficult to mine, mountains, rugged landscape, war
Vilnius is the national capital of what?
Lithuania
What kind of climate does Greece have?
Mild
What kind of climate does the UK have?
Mild
What type of power to Sweden produce?
Mill power
What Scandinavian country has the largest timber reserves it is the largest producer of timber products in Western Europe?
Sweden
The gulf of Bothnia lies between the countries of what?
Sweden and Finland
What country has the city of Zürich?
Switzerland
What is the large forest in Europe called?
The Tiaga
What country is European Union's largest trading partner?
The US
What geographical features all over Europe?
plains
Which one of the five peninsulas is located in Eastern Europe?
Balkan
Where is the Balkan peninsula located?
A lots of countries mostly Greece
What is a fjord?
A narrow sea inlet and narrow bay with steep,Rocky sides
What country has a birth rate three times higher than its death rate?
Albania
How many people per square mile does northwestern Sweden have?
0 to 5 people per square mile
How long are the Ural mountains?
1,500 miles
How many inches of precipitation does northern Russia get?
10 to 20 inches
How many people per sq mile does Romania have?
100 to 250 people per square mile
How big is the Caspian Sea?
143,250 sq.mi
How long is the Danube river?
1770 miles
How tall is mount Elbrus?
18,510 ft
What is Germany's annual precipitation?
20-40 inches per year
How many Europeans are exposed to dangerous levels of pollution each year?
37 million
What does the United Kingdom's West Coast receive for precipitation?
40 to 80 inches
How many people per sq mile does European Russia have?
5 to 50 people per square mile
How much more does the European Union import than export?
77 billion
What does Europe's annual steel production value in US dollars?
88 billion
What is located in the North Sea?
A large natural gas deposit
Why is the eastern European plain so important?
A lot of farming, rivers, fertile soil, good climate
What peak in the Caucasus Mountains has an elevation of 18,510 feet?
Mount Elbrus
What is the highest peak in Europe?
Mt.Elbrus
Most of Europe's Arctic Circle is used for what?
Nomad herding
What seas border Denmark?
North and Baltic
Where is the European plain located?
Northern France to Ural Mountains (Ukraine area)
Where is the north west highlands located?
Northern Scandinavia, UK, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland
What four major regions make up Western Europe?
Northwest Highlands,Alpine mountain system, Central uplands, European plain
What European country has the highest amount of precipitation?
Norway
Where is the Sogne fiord located?
Norway
Where is the Scandinavian peninsula located?
Norway, Sweden
How many people per square mile does Germany have?
Over 250 people per square mile
What is the second largest urban area in Europe?
Paris,France
What country has the city of Kraków?
Poland
What kind of climate does northern Iceland have?
Polar
Which source contributes the most acid rain pollution?
Power plants
What European country is largest in population?
Russia
What is Europe's largest urban area?
Russia
More people fly to Spain or Italy each year?
Spain (over 35 million)
Where is the Iberian Peninsula located?
Spain, Portugal
What is the difference between currents north and south of the equator?
The south is going counter clockwise, the north is going clockwise
What is Finland considered the land of many thousand lakes?
There is about 187,000 lakes there
What were the Vikings like?
They were skilled shipbuilders, they were warriors and farmers,and they were always exploring
Put three Russian features in order from north to south
Tundra, taiga, forested areas
What is the longest mountain range in Europe?
Ural Mountains
What group of people came from Scandinavia that read it and settled in many other areas?
Vikings