WGEO Europe Test Review

Why is Europe called a "peninsula of peninsulas"?

• Europe has water on all sides
• Europe is a peninsula and it contains peninsulas
• Europe has many waterways
• Europe has more than 24,000 miles of coastline

What is a polder?

• a community of living organisms and their natural environment
• an area of the sea where animals and plants are protected
• land that has been reclaimed from the sea
• a small body of water set off from the main body of water

What is a mistral?

• an ocean current of warm water
• land that has been taken from the seabed
• water surrounded on three sides by land
• a cold wind that brings cold, dry weather

What is one way explorers helped European rulers in the 1400s?

• improved fishing industries
• built empires and spread religious beliefs
• built many inland waterways
• helped rulers become allies

What are fjords?

• the German name for ports
• very narrow bays found in Norway
• polders built in the Netherlands
• giant walls used to hold back seawater

What two major rivers flow through Europe?

• Pyrenees and Apennines
• Danube and Gdansk
• Rhine and Danube
• Rhine and Ukraine

This landform stretches across France, Belgium, Germany, and Poland to Russia.

• the Western Uplands
• the Northern European Plains
• the Central Uplands
• the Alpine region

What human activities have had an impact on the Mediterranean Sea?

• building canals and waterways
• overfishing and overdevelopment
• exploring other lands
• reclaiming seabeds

How is the Mediterranean climate different from climate in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe?

• colder
• wetter
• windier
• warmer

Geographically, what helped the United Kingdom become a leader in world trade?

• Abundance of natural resources
• Climate: plenty of rainfall and good temperature for agriculture
• It's an island so trading is easy
• High literacy rate