Abeka World Geography chapter 3 review - 9th Grade

Brief explanation as to why it is important: English Channel

A body of water separating Great Britain from the European Continent

Define the term and identify the people: Eastern Europe,Western Europe

A classification that began during the cold war used to distinguish the free countries of the west from the communist countries in the east

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Pyrenees

A mountain ran which forms the border between France and Spain

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Monaco

A nation that lies along France's Mediterranean Coast

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Crimean Peninsula

A peninsula of southern Ukraine that extends into the Black Sea

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Mittelland Plateau

A plateau in Switzerland between the alps and the Jura Mountains

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Transylvania

A region in Romania encircled by the Carpathans and Alps

Europe's most prominent mountain range

Alps

Give correct country for Salzburg

Austrial

List the states that broke away from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s

Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosovo

How did the people of the Netherlands enlarge their boarders

By building dikes and dams and draining the seawater from the sea with pumps driven by windmills

lowest point on the continent

Caspian sea

Explain why Western Europe has historically had a greater worldwide influence than Eastern Europe has had

Europe's distance from the oceans and seas limited communication with other areas However had superior water networks

Define the term and identify the people: Althing

Europe's oldest parliament

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Danube

Europe's second longest river

Define the term and identify the people: EU

European Union an organization which makes rules and sets agendas for its member countries

Which country is Western Europe's leading agricultural producer

France

Give correct country for Hamburg

Germany

Which Empire included 1\4 of the world's population and land around the turn of the 20th century

Great Britain

largest European island

Great britan

Give the two characteristics of Western civilization mentioned in the text and briefly discuss the significance of each

Greco Roman law provided the framework for Western forms of government Judeo christian ethics the moral values of judaism and christianity the standards of right and wrong traditionally held in western nation

Where were some of the first European civilization located

Greece

Give correct country for Florence

Italy

Give correct country for Milan

Italy

Give correct country for Venice

Italy

Define the term and identify the people: Romance Language

Languages that originated from the latin of ancient Rome

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Sicily,Sardinia

Mediterranean islands belonging to Italy

Define the term and identify the people: Judeo-Christian ethics

Moral values of judaism and christianity

What city is Eastern Europe's largest

Moscow

highest peak in Europe

Mt. Elbrus

Define the term and identify the people: Moors

Muslims from North Africa

Give correct country for Rotterdam

Netherlands

Give correct country for The Hague

Netherlands

Romani

Nomadic people found in Asia Europe the americas and australis who are important to the preservation of Romanian Culture

Give correct country for Gdansk

Poland

Define the term and identify the people: Prince Henry

Portuguese prince who Promoted exploration and navigation

Identify Europe's most important inland waterway

Rhine

Give correct country for St. Petersburg

Russia

What is the largest country in the world

Russia

List the five major peninsulas of Europe

Scandinavian Jutland Iberian Italian Balkan

what are the three political historic divisions of the island of Great Britain

Scotland, Wale, England

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Luxembourg

Smallest of the Low countries also the capital of Luxembourg

Give correct country for Barcelona

Spain

What strait separates Spain from North Africa

Strait of Gibraltar

Give correct country for Geneva

Switzerland

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Low Countries

The Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Mont Blanc

The highest peak in the Alps located on the French Italian border

Give correct country for Edinburgh

U.K

Which country accounted for nearly 50% of the Soviet Union's food production during the late 1990s

Ukraine

Define the term and identify the people: USSR,CIS

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics formed buy Russia in 1922 and eventually included Estonia Latvia Lithuania Ukraine Belorussia Moldavia

Name some of the cultural links that connect the Countries of Scandinavia

Viking ancestry and the Lutheran Religion

Europe's longest river

Volga

world's largest level region

West Siberian Plain

Define the term and identify the people: taifa

a large coifferons forces of the north

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Massif Central

a large plateau covering much of south central France

Brief explanation as to why it is important: San Marino

a nation state in central Italy the world's oldest republic

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Andorra

a nation that lies in the pyrenees between France and Spain

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Liechtenstein

a small country between Switzerland and Austria

Define the term and identify the people: Eric the Red

a viking explorer who colonized Greenland

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Peloponnesus

an island like Peninsula of Southern Greece

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Norden

ancient norse word for Scandinavia

Define the term and identify the people: moraine

deposits of stones and debris left by ancient glaciers

Define the term and identify the people: Magyars

ethnic Hungarians

Define the term and identify the people: fjords

long narrow inlets of the sea with steep rocky banks

Define the term and identify the people: Sami

probably the oldest inhabitants of Europe's far north sometimes referred to as Laplanders

Define the term and identify the people: Angles

the Germanic tribe for which England is named

Discuss the influence of the Roman Empire on European history and culture. Name some of the countries that were occupied by Roman troops

the Roman Empire left its language and Catholic religion with many European countries it once occupied including Greece Italy Portus

Explain the impact of the former Soviet Union on Eastern Europe

the communist had control over every area of life in their satellite nations exiling nations exiling many who did not agree with their with their philosophies

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Vatican City

the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church the world's smallest independent state

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Mount Olympus

the highest peak in Greece

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Emerald Isle

the island of Ireland

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Crete

the largest Greek island

Define the term and identify the people: Greco-Roman law

the laws and form of government that originated in Greece and Rome and are found in the western world

What has made Switzerland an ideal headquarters for banks and other businesses and agencies

the nation neutrality and secrecy laws

why did the northern provinces of the Low Countries pull away from the southern ones

the northern provinces were protesting and the southern provinces were Catholic

Brief explanation as to why it is important: Lake Baikal

the world deepest freshwater lake

why was the Berlin Wall built

to keep the East German people from escaping to West Berlin and freedom