2025 Semester 2 Exam Geography - Part 1

Semester 2 Exam
Part 1 - Coach Jewell

Estonia - Tallinn
Latvia - Riga
Lithuania
Belarus - Minsk
Poland - Warsaw
Czech Republic - Prague
Slovakia
Hungary - Budapest
Slovenia
Croatia - Zagreb
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarejevo
Serbia - Belgrade
Montenegro
Kosovo
Albania - Tirana
Macedonia
Romania - Bucharest
Moldova
Bulgaria
Ukraine - Kyiv

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Eastern Europe

Labelling

Label these 5 countries

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Romania

Poland

Ukraine

Czeck Rep

Estonia

What did we already learn about the Danube River?

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The Danube River

Multiple Choice

What mountain range divides European Russia from the rest of Russia?

• Andes Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

• Himalayas

• Ural Mountains

ROMANOV DYNASTY

THE CZARS UNITE RUSSIA AND KICK OUT THE MONGOLS BEGINNING RUSSIA'S PATH TO BECOMING THE LARGEST NATION IN THE WORLD. 1613-1917. THE CZARS WERE ALL POWERFUL AND DESPOTIC. MOST RUSSIANS LIVED AS SERFS.

Multiple Choice

The dynasty that ruled russia from the 1600's until 1917

• Romanov
• Tudor
• Habsburg
• Bourbon

Multiple Choice

What kind of government/economic system did the Soviets set up in territory(Eastern Europe) that they gained during WWII?

• Democratic/

  Capitalist

• Democratic/

  Socialist

• Communist/

  Authoritarian

  (Autocracy)

Multiple Choice

What as Western and Eastern Europe separated by?

• Mountain Ranges

• Satellite nations

• The Iron Curtain

• The Wall

End of the Cold War

1990 - East and West Germany fully Re-unified and all Allied control was removed.

The 1990's saw the coalition that was once Yugoslavia break into Six separate nations with Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia going to War for most of the 90's.

​Turkey-Istanbul
Iraq - Bagdad
Iran - Tehran
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Yemen - Sana'a
Oman - Muscat
United Arab Emerites - Abu Dhabi
Quatar - Doha
Kuwait - Kuwait City

​Southwest Asia

Hotspot

Select Turkey

Hotspot

Select Iraq

The Dead Sea
Jordan River
Sea of Galilee
Mediteranean

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Lakes and Rivers - Israel

Religious Holy Places 

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic religions. All three were founded in the middle east. All three consider Jerusalem to be a holy city.

​The Hagia Sophia Church was transformed into a mosque in 1453 under the Ottoman’s and then into a museum in 1935 under the Republic of Turkey. The Hagia Sophia remained a museum until 2020 as one of the most famous and iconic travel destinations in the world. Today, it has been re-designated a mosque in Istanbul.

​Hagia Sophia

1953 - Temporarily ousted by Muhammad Mossedeqq
1953 - Came back after Military Coup led by CIA and UK- ousted Mossedeqq. Shah was anti communist and worked with the west to share oil revenues.

1953-1979 - The White Revolution - Tries to modernize and westernize his country (this makes the fundamentalist angry)

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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi 1941 - 1979

A History of Unrest 

The land controlled by Britain was known as the Palestine Mandate. In the 1800s, a movement called Zionism had begun. Its goal was to reestablish a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. Jewish settlers started buying land and settling there. By 1914, about 12 percent of the region’s population was Jewish.

A History of Unrest 

Immediately, the surrounding Arab nations of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen invaded Israel. Israeli troops fought back and won. The 1948 war was the beginning of hostilities that continue to this day.

Hotspot

Select the hotspot that indicates Egypt

The Nile
Red Sea
Suez Canal

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Lakes and Rivers - Egypt

Hotspot

Select the Red Sea

Hotspot

Select the the Suez Canal

It’s a common misconception that the Sahara is the world’s largest desert. In actual fact, it’s the largest hot desert behind the Arctic and Antarctica, which are both cold deserts. During the summer months, temperatures in the Sahara average between a sizzling 38-46°C.

The Sahara Desert spans some 8,600,000 square kilometres. However, this changes over time as the actual area of the desert expands and contracts with the seasons.

Sahara Desert

Fill in the Blank

How many countries does the sahara desert go through.

Hotspot

Select Libya

Hotspot

Select Morocco

Hotspot

Select Sudan