Chapter 4 Summative: Study Guide

Question 0

What is a taiga? (Provide an example)

Answer 0

Area of land with dense evergreen trees. (Ex. The areas of Sweden, Finland, and Norway)

Question 1

Go to Lizard Point Geography and locate the countries in both West and Eastern Europe. (Link is Below)

Answer 1

http://lizardpoint.com/geography/europe-quiz.php

Question 2

What is Diversity? (Provide an Example)

Answer 2

A range of different things. (Ex. ethnic diversity.)

Question 3

What is the Northern European Plain?

Answer 3

A large plain that stretches from the Pyrenees Mountains to the Ural Mountains in Russia.

Question 4

What is ethnic cleansing? (provide an example)

Answer 4

Too try to kill scare another ethnic group to force them to leave their own. (Ex. During World War II, Germany wanted the Jews to leave their ethnic group, so they carried out ethnic cleansing.)

Question 5

What countries make up Scandinavia?

Answer 5

Norway, Denark, and Sweden.

Question 6

What was the holocaust?

Answer 6

When Hitler carried out ethnic cleansing against the Jews, and other ethnicities in order to remove the population.

Question 7

What was the Chunnel, or channel tunnel?

Answer 7

An underwater tunnel connecting Great Britain and France.

Question 8

What is communism? (provide an example)

Answer 8

A form of government where the government is in charge of the economic activity. (Ex. In World War II, Europe was divided into 2 different kinds of government, communist East and capitalist West, and this tension is called a cold war.)

Question 9

What are aquaducts? Who built them?

Answer 9

Aqueducts are bridge-like structures that carried water across land. They were built and used by the Romans.

Question 10

What is a democracy? Provide an example of a country who uses a democracy.

Answer 10

A system of government where citizens are able to vote and can participate in the government. (The United States is run by a democracy, and all citizens are eligible to vote)

Question 11

What is the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 11

The period of time where people were urbanizing (moving from the countryside to the city) and industrializing (changing from an agricultural economy to one that produces products in factories).

Question 12

What is a Free Market? (provide an example)

Answer 12

A system where prices are determined by privately owned businesses. (example: Western European businesses were run by free markets, and could set their own prices.)

Question 13

What happened in the incident of Chernobyl?

Answer 13

A nuclear power plant malfunctioned and radioactive uranium was released into the environment.

Question 14

What is the USSR (Soviet Union)?

Answer 14

A former nation of 15 countries. The USSR had control over much of Eastern Europe.

Question 15

What is urbanization? (provide an example.)

Answer 15

The process in which people move from the countryside to the city. (During the Industrial Revolution, urbanization occurred because the workers were industrializing (moving to factories).

Question 16

What is the European Union (EU)?

Answer 16

A partnership between countries in Europe (27 countries) which promote peace and economic growth.

Question 17

Review packets from 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 for the short answer questions.

Answer 17

4. 4- Tabs 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 answer key on study guide
5. 3- Tabs 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 answer key on study guide
6. 2- Chart answer key on study guide

Question 18

What is a natural resource?

Answer 18

A useful mineral found in the environment. (ex. water, minerals, vegetation)

Question 19

How have Europe’s coastlines and rivers benefited the people that live there? (list 3 ways)

Answer 19

-Transportation -Commercial fishing -Hydroelectric power

Question 20

Compare the lands of northern Europe with those of southern Europe.

Answer 20

-Northern Europe is a taiga (dense evergreen forests). -Southern Europe is Mediterranean (Rugged terrain, poor soil).

Question 21

List 3 consequences of heavy use of resources in Europe.

Answer 21

-pollution -acid rain -deforestation

Question 22

List 2 things that Romans built and what were they used for?

Answer 22

Road System- used for transportation Aqueducts- Used for filtering and transferring water to places with limited amounts of water.

Question 23

What is the underwater structure that connects Great Britain with France? When was it built?

Answer 23

The Chunnel. Built in the 1990s

Question 24

What is the Columbian Exchange? (list example items that were exchanged)

Answer 24

Exchange of goods such as cloths, silks, spices, gold, silver, furs, etc. Happened during the age of exploration.

Question 25

Why was coal valuable in Europe?

Answer 25

Allowed for factories to prosper during the Industrial Revolution.