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WorksheetsWGEO Europe Test Review
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 32mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why is Europe called a "peninsula of peninsulas"?
a)
Europe has water on all sides
b)
Europe is a peninsula and it contains peninsulas
c)
Europe has many waterways
d)
Europe has more than 24,000 miles of coastline
2.
What is a polder?
a)
a community of living organisms and their natural environment
b)
an area of the sea where animals and plants are protected
c)
land that has been reclaimed from the sea
d)
a small body of water set off from the main body of water
3.
What is a mistral?
a)
an ocean current of warm water
b)
land that has been taken from the seabed
c)
water surrounded on three sides by land
d)
a cold wind that brings cold, dry weather
4.
What is one way explorers helped European rulers in the 1400s?
a)
improved fishing industries
b)
built empires and spread religious beliefs
c)
built many inland waterways
d)
helped rulers become allies
5.
What are fjords?
a)
the German name for ports
b)
very narrow bays found in Norway
c)
polders built in the Netherlands
d)
giant walls used to hold back seawater
6.
What two major rivers flow through Europe?
a)
Pyrenees and Apennines
b)
Danube and Gdansk
c)
Rhine and Danube
d)
Rhine and Ukraine
7.
This landform stretches across France, Belgium, Germany, and Poland to Russia.
a)
the Western Uplands
b)
the Northern European Plains
c)
the Central Uplands
d)
the Alpine region
8.
What human activities have had an impact on the Mediterranean Sea?
a)
building canals and waterways
b)
overfishing and overdevelopment
c)
exploring other lands
d)
reclaiming seabeds
9.
How is the Mediterranean climate different from climate in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe?
a)
colder
b)
wetter
c)
windier
d)
warmer
10.
Geographically, what helped the United Kingdom become a leader in world trade?
a)
Abundance of natural resources
b)
Climate: plenty of rainfall and good temperature for agriculture
c)
It's an island so trading is easy
d)
High literacy rate
11.
Name that country. Very cold climate, long coastline but northern rivers are not navigable, location of people is not near trade routes.
a)
Germany
b)
Russia
c)
United Kingdom
d)
Italy
12.
Name that country: Good climate for agriculture, navigable rivers but rivers run through other countries to get to a port
a)
Russia
b)
Italy
c)
United Kingdom
d)
Germany
13.
Name that country: This country's location makes it easy to trade. Has an abundance of natural resources and good climate for agriculture
a)
United Kingdom
b)
Germany
c)
Italy
d)
Russia
14.
What physical feature is located in parts of southern Europe that lowers the population density in that area?
a)
Many navigable rivers like the Rhine
b)
European Plains
c)
Warm Mediterranean climate
d)
Parts of the Alps
15.
Why are many major cities located near or on rivers?
a)
Necessary for farming
b)
Shipping for trade
c)
Transportation
d)
all of the above
16.
How are acid rain, air pollution, and nuclear disasters all similar?
a)
The effects of all three are contained within one country
b)
All happened due to one time human error
c)
They all happened in the same country
d)
Pollution spreads into many other countries
17.
The percent of people in a country who can read and write.
a)
literacy stimulation
b)
cultural characteristics
c)
literacy rate
d)
standard of living
18.
How is the relationship between literacy rate and standard of living?
a)
The higher the literacy rate the lower the standard of living.
b)
The lower the literacy rate the higher the standard of living.
c)
The higher the literacy rate the higher the standard of living.
d)
One does not affect the other.
19.
Poland
a)
D
b)
G
c)
E
d)
H
20.
English Channel
a)
A
b)
B
c)
G
d)
E
21.
The Alps
a)
D
b)
B
c)
F
d)
G
22.
Which river flows from the Alps mountains east across much of Europe and empties into the Black Sea?
a)
Rhine River
b)
Danube River
c)
Amazon River
d)
Volga River
23.
Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia?
a)
Ural Mountains
b)
Pyrenees Mountains
c)
Alps Mountains
d)
Rocky Mountains
24.
Which mountain range separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe?
a)
Alps Mountains
b)
Ural Mountains
c)
Pyrenees Mountains
d)
Rocky Mountains
25.
Which body of water can be found to the south of Europe?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Arctic Ocean
c)
English Channel
d)
Mediterranean Sea
26.
Spain and Portugal are located on which peninsula?
a)
Iberian Peninsula
b)
Scandinavian Peninsula
c)
English Peninsula
d)
Italian Peninsula
27.
This river begins in the Alps mountains and flows north to the North Sea
a)
Danube River
b)
Volga River
c)
Nile River
d)
Rhine River
28.
Most people live on the western side of the Ural mountains in this country
a)
Russia
b)
United Kingdom
c)
Italy
d)
Germany
29.
The natural border between France and Spain
a)
Pyrenees Mountains
b)
Alps Mountains
c)
Ural Mountains
30.
European peninsula closest to the Arctic Ocean
a)
Scandinavian Peninsula
b)
Iberian Peninsula
c)
Florida Peninsula
31.
Example of Slavic language
a)
Russian
b)
Germanic
c)
Romance
d)
Finnish
32.
Most people in Russia live near
a)
Europe
b)
China
c)
Japan
d)
Siberia
33.
Why was this time considered the Dark Ages?
a)
a lot of chaos is present
b)
there is no real central government
c)
there are few achievements & not a lot of learning
d)
all of the above
34.
What is an advantage of mountains?
a)
protection from invaders/enemies
b)
good for farming
c)
made communication easier
35.
Land reclaimed from the sea and able to be farmed is called
a)
Dikes
b)
Terpens
c)
Polders
d)
Seaworks
36.
What's Spain's official language?
a)
French
b)
English
c)
Spanish
d)
Portuguese
37.
This is an example of
a)
a market economic system
b)
a command economic system.
c)
a traditional economic system.
d)
communism.
38.
The term for having a variety of cultures in the same area is
a)
cultural diversity.
b)
culture region.
c)
popular culture.
d)
population density.
39.
Why do people migrate?
a)
war
b)
epidemics
c)
all of these
d)
poverty
40.
Industrial waste, acid rain, and sewage eroded buildings in this city because it is built on stilts
a)
Venice
b)
Massif Central
c)
France
d)
The Netherlands
41.
Banks made of earth to hold back the sea are called
a)
Polders
b)
Terpens
c)
Dikes
d)
None
42.
The nonrenewable resource of peat fuels the country of
a)
Ireland
b)
Scotland
c)
Iceland
d)
Norway
43.
The upland region of France is known as
a)
The Massif Central
b)
The Meseta
c)
The Northern European Plain
d)
None
44.
Norway's deep U-shaped valleys
a)
Plateau
b)
Fjords
c)
Mistral
d)
Northern European Plain
45.
Along the Arctic Circle, close to the Scandinavian Pen., the climate is
a)
Marine West Coast
b)
Tundra
c)
Mediterranean
d)
Subarctic
46.
Peninsula with 4,700 miles of coastline, lots of coastline!
a)
Iberian
b)
Jutland
c)
Italian
d)
Scandinavian
47.
Fossil fuels were found in
a)
The Norwegian Sea
b)
The Baltic Sea
c)
The Adriatic Sea
d)
The North Sea
48.
parliament
a)
a section of Scotland, between Glasgow and Edinburgh, that has many high-tech companies
b)
a common European currency proposed by the European Union
c)
a place where various cultures cross paths
d)
a representative lawmaking body, whose members are elected or appointed
49.
a political unity made up of a city and its surrounding lands
a)
republic
b)
democracy
c)
city-state
d)
sanction
50.
a cold, dry wind from the north
a)
Prevailing Westerlies
b)
mistral
c)
polder
d)
terpen
51.
discrimination against Jewish people
a)
chernozem
b)
anti-monotheistic
c)
anti-Semitism
d)
snobbery
52.
the name of the combined continents of Europe and Asia
a)
European
b)
Aropeania
c)
Caucasus
d)
Eurasia
53.
a wall erected by East Germany in 1961 to cut the capital of Berlin in two, and later dismantled (torn down) in 1989
a)
The Mexican Wall
b)
The BerlinWall
c)
Great Wall of China
d)
West Bank Wall
54.
Reformation
a)
a period when Jews migrated to the Middle East
b)
a period when many Christians broke away from the Catholic Church
c)
a period when Italians read more and wrote more
d)
a period when many Muslims migrated to Asia
55.
a government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name
a)
republic
b)
dictatorship
c)
aristocracy
d)
local
56.
aka WWI
a)
The War to Start All Wars
b)
World War Primavera
c)
The Great War
d)
The Forgotten War
57.
A cultural bridge between the Dark Ages and modern history.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Reformaion
c)
Industrial Revolution
d)
Middle Ages
58.
deforestation is really hurting this region...
a)
Black Forest
b)
Carpathians
c)
Iberian Peninsla
d)
Northern European Plain
59.
I'm an olive and I grow well here.
a)
Olive Garden
b)
Greece
c)
Ireland
d)
Southern Denmark
60.
Currently, the toughest problem that Europe is dealing with is...
a)
Immigration
b)
Uneducation
c)
Emigration
d)
Imperialism
61.
What was the name of the treaty that ended WWI?
a)
Treaty of Paris
b)
Treaty of Ghent
c)
Treaty of Versailles
d)
The Berlin Treaty
62.
Which group of countries allied themselves to form the Triple Entente (Allies) in the years before World War I?
a)
Britain, France, and Austria-Hungary
b)
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
c)
Russia, Germany, and Italy
d)
Britain, France, and Russia
63.
WWII was fought from:
a)
1941-1947
b)
1939-1941
c)
1939-1945
d)
1933-1941
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