10.2 Human Geography of Northern Europe
Sweden offers what to its citizens?
Complete social welfare
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are what type of Monarchy?
Constitutional
What is the capital of Denmark?
Copenhagen
What is called "The Singapore of the Baltic?"
Copenhagen, Denmark
What is the name given to native people of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland?
Sami
What is the capital of Sweden?
Stockholm
Who is Finland economically integrated with in the 1100's?
Sweden
What is required for children in Northern Europe?
They must know one other language besides there own
What where the years A.D. 793 to 1050 known as?
Viking Age
What is the Danish government investing in since Denmark has limited amounts of oil and natural gas?
Wind Energy
What word means- a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley?
Fjord
What famous person, who also wrote the little mermaid, lived in Denmark?
Hans Christian Anderson
What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
What is the largest city in Finland?
Helsinki
All of the five countries are what?
Homogenous
What country has the lowest population density?
Iceland
What country is the most homogenous?
Iceland
What did the Nordic society become?
Increasingly continental
What is the second major religion in Denmark?
Islam
Where are the Sami located?
Lapland
Who was the Viking Explorer of the New World?
Leif Eriksson
What is another name for viking?
Norseman
In Finland residents rely on sea for what?(2 things)
1. Commercial fishing 2. Farmland for growing basic foods
What where the name of the 3 provinces that where created as a Viking kingdom, while territories where expanding?
1. Denmark 2. Sweden 3. Norway
What are the 5 Northern Countries of Europe?
1. Finland 2. Iceland 3. Norway 4. Denmark 5. Sweden
Who remained under control of the Kingdom of Denmark?
1. Iceland 2. Greenland 3. The Faeroe Islands
Why has Norway attracted lots international workers?(2 things)
1. Petroleum 2. Natural gas
In Northern Europe how long is school mandatory?
10 years
When did Finland become independent?
1917
By A.D. 800 how many small kingdoms existed in Norway?
30
What percent of Icelands exports are fish products?
70%
What percent of most other residents of Sweden live in or around Stockholm?
80
What is another word for farming/agriculture?
Agrarian
What means, practices large shipments being divided into smaller amounts for distribution to other places?
Break-of-Bulk
Who has low birthrate, best educated and highest paid in Europe, has resulted in slowing population growth, and more people in Denmark over the age of 60 than under age of 15?
Danish Women
What Kingdom includes its continental areas, self-governing Faeroe Islands, and Greenland?
Denmark
What country has the highest population density?
Denmark
Who's economy is strictly based on service, trade, manufacturing, and agriculture?
Denmarks
What means a port where goods are received and then reshipped?
Entrepot
Who is the largest oil producer and the second largest of natural gas?
Europe
What is one thing all five countries have in common?(Religion)
Evangelical Lutheran
What country has a reputation for worlds leading proponents of Humanitarian cause?
Finland
What country was the first originated?
Finland
What became the basis language for present-day Nordic languages?
Old Norse
What is the capital of Norway?
Oslo
What does Finland rely on as a source of energy?
Peat
What does Europe seek to escape conflicts/problems from there home country?
Political Aslym
Finland is the only Northern Country without and official what?
Religion
What is the capital of Iceland?
Reykjavik
