Abeka 5th Grade, History Test 15 (Ch. 10-16) Semester Exam

Iceland

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

Norway

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

Be able to label these locations on a map.

1. Amsterdam 2. Bern 3. Brussels 4. Copenhagen 5. Madrid 10. Ukraine 6. Hungary 7. Romania 8. Russia 9. Slovakia 10. Ukraine

Be able to label these locations on a map.

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

Oceania

20,000 - 30,000 islands in the Pacific

Vinson Massif

Antarctica's highest peak

the Land Down Under

Australia is completely below the equator so it has a nickname of

wool

Australia is the world's leading producer of

outback

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

Canberra

Australia's capital

Mt. Kosciusko

Australia's highest peak

Murray

Australia's longest river flowing year-round

eucalyptus

Australia's most important tree, which is also known as a gum tree

dinegoes

Australian Dog Fence was built to keep ____ away from sheep

summer

Because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas comes in the _____

Spain

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

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 with

France

John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc are all connected with

Denmark

Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland are connected with

Communism

Karl Marx was the founder of

the United States

Khrushchev threatened to "bury"

Italy

Leonardo da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mr. Vesuvius are connected with

Great Purge

Stalin was famous for the

Switzerland

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

Yeltsin

after the Soviet Union fell, the most powerful Russian leader was

artesian basin

an area of underground water

Martin Luther

began the Protestant Reformation

Vienna

capital of Austria

Helsinki

capital of Finland

Berlin

capital of Germany

Rome

capital of Italy

Wellington

capital of New Zealand

Oslo

capital of Norway

Port Moresby

capital of Papua New Guinea

Warsaw

capital of Poland

Moscow

capital of Russia

Bern

capital of Switzerland

Queen Elizabeth

defeated the Spanish Armada

Maoris

early settlers of New Zealand were

Homer

famous bared of ancient Greece was

John G. Paton

famous missionary to the Pacific Islands

Augustus Caesar

first emperor of Rome

Lenin

first leader of a Communist state

Charles Wilkes

first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent

Roald Amundsen

first man to reach the South Pole

Captain James Cook

first man to sail around the Antarctic Circle was

John Wycliffe

first to translate the Bible into English

Florence Nightingale

founded the modern nursing profession

Mt. Elbrus

highest peak in Europe

Johann Gutenberg

invented the printing press

West Siberian Plain

largest level region in the world is

Volga

longest river in Europe

Papua New Guinea

more languages are spoken in ____than in any other country in the world

Richard Byrd

most famous Antarctic explorer

Scripture

most important task performed by the monks was copying and preserving

Pyrenees

mountains that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe

Strait of Gibraltar

narrow waterway separating Europe from Africa

Aborigines

native inhabitants of Ausralia

Dardanelles

one of the waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea

Melanesia

part of Oceania with the most people

industrial center

place where manufacturing is done

William Shakespeare

probably the greatest English author

Queen Victoria

promised, "I will be good."

Julius Caesar

roman general who "crossed the Rubicon"

Crusades

series of attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks was called

tundra

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

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 migrations champion of the world

Punic Wars

the series of wars that Rome fought against Carthage were the

democracy

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

the Netherlands

tulips, windmills, wooden shoes, dikes, low lands

Polynesia

word that means "many islands" is

Micronesia

word that means "small island" is

Lake Baikal

world's deepest freshwater lake