10.2 Human Geography of Northern Europe

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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


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