Test 3 Study Sheet

Question 1

What is the capital of Greece?

Answer 1

Athens

Question 2

What is the capital of Spain?

Answer 2

Madrid

Question 3

What is the capital of Germany?

Answer 3

Berlin

Question 4

What is the capital of Russia?

Answer 4

Moscow

Question 5

What is the capital of Iraq?

Answer 5

Baghdad

Question 6

What is the capital of Switzerland?

Answer 6

Bern

Question 7

What is the capital of France?

Answer 7

Paris

Question 8

What is the highest peak in Europe?

Answer 8

Mr. Elbrus

Question 9

What area is known as the “Cradle of Civilization?”

Answer 9

The Fertile Crescent

Question 10

What is the largest city in population?

Answer 10

Tokyo

Question 11

What is the world’s largest peninsula?

Answer 11

Arabian Peninsula

Question 12

What is the world’s oldest republic?

Answer 12

San Marino

Question 13

What continent is known as the birth place of Western Civilization?

Answer 13

Europe

Question 14

What is the world’s smallest independent state?

Answer 14

Vatican City

Question 15

What plateau is know as the “roof” of the world”?

Answer 15

Tibet

Question 16

What narrow body of water separates the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa?

Answer 16

The Strait of Gibraltar

Question 17

The Communists built a wall to keep people from escaping to freedom in what German city?

Answer 17

Berlin

Question 18

In which country has 1/4 of the land been taken from the sea by using dams, dikes, and windmills to drain the water?

Answer 18

the Netherlands

Question 19

What are the countries in the Baltic States?

Answer 19

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Question 20

What countries were once under control of the Soviet Union but are considered independent republics today?

Answer 20

Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan

Question 21

What country occupies the Jutland Peninsula?

Answer 21

Denmark

Question 22

What country is known as the Emerald Isle?

Answer 22

Ireland

Question 23

What are the four major political divisions of the United Kingdom?

Answer 23

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Question 24

On what parallel were North and South Korea divided?

Answer 24

38th parallel

Question 25

What body of water separates Great Britain from continental Europe?

Answer 25

English Channel

Question 26

What country is spread over the thousands of islands in the Malay Archipelago?

Answer 26

Indonesia

Question 27

What city do both Muslims and Jews claim as a holy city?

Answer 27

Jerusalem

Question 28

What is the main product exported from the Arabian Peninsula?

Answer 28

oil

Question 29

Which country's society is based on the caste system?

Answer 29

India

Question 30

Parts of the Alps extend into which of the following countries? Austria, Belgium, France and Switzerland

Answer 30

Austria, France, Switzerland (NOT Belgium)

Question 31

What is a isthmus?

Answer 31

A narrow strip of land that connects two landmasses.

Question 32

What is a strait?

Answer 32

A narrow strip of water that connects two larger bodies of water.

Question 33

What map shows the most accurate display of the earth's features. It also shows correct shapes, sizes, and locations.

Answer 33

Globe

Question 34

Who is a cartographer?

Answer 34

A person who is skilled in displaying geographic information on globes and maps.

Question 35

Know these things on a political map of Europe: | know more for extra credit

Answer 35

``` Amsterdam Berlin Madrid Kiev London, Athens Moscow Paris Rome Denmark France Reykjavik Portugal Hungary Ireland Sweden Ukraine Belarus ```

Question 36

Know these items on a physical map of Europe. | more for extra credit

Answer 36

``` Adriatic Sea Baltic Sea Black Sea Mediterranean Sea North Sea Tyrrhenian Sea Balkan Peninsula Jutland Peninsula Iberian Peninsula Rhine River Caucasus Mountains Ural Mountains Alps Bay of Biscay Crete Ireland Sardinia ```

Question 37

Know the following items on a World Map: | additional for extra credit

Answer 37

``` Arctic Circle Antarctic Circle Equator Prime Meridian International Date Line Tropic of Capricorn Tropic of Cancer Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Mount Everest Mount Aconcagua Beijing New Delhi Tokyo Indonesia France Pakistan South Korea Saudi Arabia ```