EUROPE/RUSSIA REVIEW SHEETNCHS

EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

1. What countries lie on: Scandinavian Peninsula:Norway and

Sweden Jutland Peninsula: Denmark and

Germany Iberian Peninsula: Spain and Portugal Italian Peninsula: Italy Balkan Peninsula: Greece

EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

2. What do all the islands of Europe depend on? Trade

3. What mountain range goes through France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Balkan Peninsula? Alps

4. What is the most fertile agricultural region in the world? Northern European Plain

5. What are the four major religions of Europe? Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Islam

EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

6. What are the two main climate regions of Europe? Humid Continental and Marine West Coast

7. How many time zones does Russia have? 11

8. What is chernozem? Rich black topsoil of the Northern European Plain

9. What physical feature dominates Russia’s far East? Volcanoes

EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

10. What is the longest river in Europe? Volga 11. What is the largest inland sea in the

world? Caspian Sea 12. What is happening to the Aral Sea? Why?

Shrinking because of diversion of rivers for irrigation of cotton

13. What is special about Lake Baikal? Deepest lake in the world, oldest lake in the world, 1200 unique species (endemic), mud is 5 miles thick, holds 20% of the world’s freshwater

RUSSIA RECAP

14. What year did the Russian Revolution take place? 1917 (Bolshevik)

15. What was the full name of the Soviet Union? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

16. What imaginary “item” surrounded the Soviet Bloc countries? Iron Curtain

17. What was the Cold War? Power struggle between the Soviet Union and US

18. When did the Cold War take place? 1945-1990

19. Who were the key leaders that helped push the Soviet Union to change? Reagan and Gorbachev

EUROPE/RUSSIA VOCABULARY20. Fjord- Deep sided glacial

valley filled with sea water21. Peat-decomposing plant

matter used for fuel22. North Atlantic Drift- Warm

water current from tropics keeping northern European ports thawed out in winter

23. Polder- Land reclaimed from the sea

24. Seaworks- Controls the seas destructive power on the earth

25. Terpen- High earthen dams-part of seaworks

26. Crusades-Series of HOLY Wars designed to take the Holy land back from the Muslims

27. Continentality- A regions distance from the moderating influence of the sea

28. Distance Decay- the concept that increasing distances b/w places tends to reduce the interaction between them

EUROPEAN SCAVENGER HUNT

What city used Gonolas? Venice

Russia Scavenger Hunt 30. How deep is Lake Baikal? 5,800 feet 31. What two rivers flow into the Aral Sea?

Syr Darya and Amu Darya 32. What is an exclave? Part of a country that

is separate from the main country and surrounded by a foreign country

FRANCE REVEALED

33. When did French women get the right to vote?

After WWII

WESTERN EUROPE HANDOUT

34. What is the Reformation and what was its significance?When the Catholic Church split into Catholic and Protestant. Roman Catholic Church loses power

35. Define Feudalism- Political system in Western Europe when Kings allowed nobles to use their land in exchange for protection

36. What were the effects of industrialism on European Countries? Set up colonies to get raw materials, created rivalries

37. Define Holocaust- Mass murder of European Jews and other minorities by Hitler

38. What purpose did the Berlin Wall serve? Separate E/W Berlin

NORTHERN EUROPE

39. What parts of the world did Great Britain have colonies in by 1880s?Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania

40. How did Great Britain help to shape the modern world? (two things) Representative Government, and Industrial Revolution

41. Describe the Industrial Revolution- Use of coal and iron for machines and industry-leads to empire building

ITALY REVEALED

42. What country is the head of the Catholic Church? Vatican City

43. What type of travel is forbidden in Venice? Car travel

44. What city is Italy’s economic heart? Milan

MEDITERRANEAN TIMELINE

45. When was Rome founded? 753 BC When did it spilt? Split in 395 AD

46. What is the Renaissance? Renewed interest in learning and the arts. When was it? 14th -16th century

47. What were the Crusades? Series of Wars designed to take the Holy Land back from the Muslims. When were they? 1096

48. When was the Bubonic plague? 1347

EASTERN EUROPE READING GUIDE

49. Why did the Soviet Union set up communist governments in Eastern Europe? Protect itself from ivasion

50. Who held on to Eastern Europe after the Roman Empire fell? Byzantine

51. What is Balkanization? The breaking up of countries into small hostile units

52. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s who led them to more freedom? Gorbachev

53. What type of economy did most of these nations move to after 1989? Market

54. What is anti-Semitism?discrimination against Jews

RUSSIA REVEALED

55. What is Siberia? 5 million square miles-characteristic of permafrost

56. What are gulags? Prison camps in USSR 57. What did the Communists do to

Christians? Harassed believers, executed priests and

destroyed churches 58. How many federal republics does Russia

have? 21 59. What physical feature dominates the

Kamchatka Peninsula? volcanoes

CHERNOBYL

60. What was it? What were the effects of it