Europe test

Question 1

Is Ireland in Western Europe?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

What region is Denmark in?

Answer 2

Northern

Question 3

Deciduous Forest

Answer 3

Forest with trees that lose their leaves in the Winter

Question 4

Coniferous Forest

Answer 4

Forest with trees that keep their leaves (Pine, Fir)

Question 5

What is Scandinavia?

Answer 5

A peninsula between Norway and Sweden

Question 6

Denmark has _____ Islands

Answer 6

400

Question 7

Spain and Portugal have the ___________ peninsula

Answer 7

Iberian

Question 8

Balkin Peninsula

Answer 8

Place with a lot of mountains

Question 9

Balkin in Turkish means…

Answer 9

Mountains

Question 10

Ural Mountains are a boarder between

Answer 10

Europe and Asia

Question 11

Strait of Gibraltar Importance

Answer 11

Gives a path to the Mediterainian

Question 12

Balkin Peninsula has so much Culture

Answer 12

b/c Isolation created a lot of diversity

Question 13

14. What does balkanization mean?

Answer 13

Conflict within an Ethnic group

Question 14

Longest River in Europe

Answer 14

Volga River

Question 15

Factors that influence tase in West Europe

Answer 15

EU’S single market and trade agreements

Changes in World economy

Differences in energy pricing

Political events

Question 16

Is Europe actually its own continent?

Answer 16

No.B/c it part of Asia(only in Name)

Question 17

What covered most Europe that made people migrate to Australia?

Answer 17

Mountains, fjords, Lava flow

Question 18

What did archaeologists find in caves

Answer 18

Cave pics/paintings

Question 19

______________ was being built at the same time as Stonehedge

Answer 19

Pyramids

Question 20

Humans have lived in Europe for _______ Yers

Answer 20

40,000

Question 21

Melting Tin and Copper =

Answer 21

Smelting

Question 22

How long did civilization last in Ancient Greece?

Answer 22

2,000 BCE-200 BCE

Question 23

Ancient Greece was conquered by …

Answer 23

Rome

Question 24

Tree Greek Periods

Answer 24

Archaic Period
Classical Period
Hellenistic Period

Question 24

City-State =

Answer 24

Independent City

Question 25

a hinterland =

Answer 25

Area that provided City State's with Food

Question 26

Two important Greek Cities

Answer 26

Athens, Sparta

Question 27

Which country is NOT in Northern Europe? Denmark Finland Latvia Sweden

Answer 27

Latvia

Question 28

The city of Constantinople was renamed to be_________

Answer 28

Istabbul

Question 29

Explain what the Treaty of Versailles was, how it ended WW1 and how it influenced the beginning of WW2.

Answer 29

-Made Germany Mad -Started WWII -Germany had bad economy

Question 30

The Mongols were in control of Kiev for about 250 years until __________ defeated them and pushed them out of the land.

Answer 30

Ivan IV (the Terrible)

Question 31

strikes agains _______ in ____

Answer 31

Czar Nicholas II. 1905

Question 32

1917, a group called the Bolsheviks took over Russia. Who were the Bolsheviks?

Answer 32

They wanted Russia to be a communist state -led working class to overthrowing government

Question 32

Rasputin

Answer 32

Czar Nicholas II's advisor -hard to kill -claims to be black magician

Question 33

Lenin =

Answer 33

he leader of the Bolshevik peoples, played a key role in the Russian revolution, first leader of the Soviet Union.

Question 34

Stalin =

Answer 34

USSR leader from 1920's- 1953(bad person -led Holomador

Question 35

Karl Marx =

Answer 35

German philosopher argued history is driving by class struggle

Question 36

Axis Powers

Answer 36

Japan Germany Italy

Question 37

The Black Death was thought to have come from ______ on infected people, rats, and fleas.

Answer 37

Asia

Question 38

The Cuban Missile crisis lasted how many days?

Answer 38

13

Question 39

Cuban Missile crisis

Answer 39

- The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted 13 days and it was a potential turning point in the Cold War where the US and USSR could have potentially engaged in legitimate warfare with each other. If the crisis had not been deescalated, we might have seen WW3 begin with nuclear warfare starting between the US and USSR.

Question 40

Hitler invaded Portugal at the beginning of WW2 True False

Answer 40

False

Question 41

The Romanovs ruled over Russia for 300 years TrUE False

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Explain why the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were so at odds with each other at the end of WW2.

Answer 42

After WW, They where both powerful and fought over it