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WorksheetsChapter 12 Section 1 Geography
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
In 218 B.C., a general from North Africa, named_____________, attacked the Roman Empire.
Napoleon
Hannibal
Hamilcar Barca
Alexander the Great
Hannibal took 38 _______________ and about 60,000 troops across the Mediterranean to Spain.
Citizens
Goats
Horses
War Elephants
To do so, his armies has to cross the_______________ , the Rhone River, and the Alps.
Pyrenees Mountains
Mount Everest
Mount McKinley
Sahara
In the __________ , high paths and slick ice caused men and animals to fall to their deaths.
Pyrenees Mountains
Rhone River
Alps
Mount Everest
Despite this, they arrived in Italy with about 26,000 troops and a few elephants, and he defeated _____________.
North Africa
Rome
France
Germany
Because of these peninsulas, most locations in Europe are more than _____________ from an ocean or sea.
10 miles
300 miles
500 miles
1 mile
Occupied by the nations of Norway and Sweden, it is bounded by the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and the_____________.
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Fjords provide excellent ____________ for fishing boats.
Bays
Docks
Harbors
Fjords are often separated by narrow ______________.
Lakes
Creeks
Rivers
Peninsulas
The famous mountain chain is ________.
Rocky Mountains
the Alps
Himalayas
Andes
Mountains make it difficult for ___________, ___________, and ____________ to move easily from place to place.
People, Goods, Ideas
Horses, Mules, Donkeys
Goats, Pigs, Alpacas
Traversing Europe is a network of rivers that bring ______________ and ____________ together.
People, Goods
Cats, Dogs
Horses, Cows
Weapons, Gear
The rivers are used to _________________ between coastal harbors and the inland region, aiding economic growth.
bathe
catch fish
swim
transport goods
Two major castle-lined rivers, the ______________ and the ______________ , were used as watery highways.
Danube River, Rhine River
Mississippi River, Pearl River
Amazon River, Parana River
Nile River, Zambezi River
The ___________ flows about 820 mills from the interior of Europe north to the North Sea.
Danube River
Mississippi River
Rhine River
Nile River
The _____________ flows through the heart of Europe and it is 1,771 miles long.
Amazon River
Danube River
Nile River
Rhine River
Europe has abundant supplies of two natural resources, which are __________ and __________.
Fish, Petroluem
Oil, Lumber
Nickel, Copper
Coal, Iron
Near many of these coal deposits are iron ore deposits. Having both of these resources makes it possible to produce ______________.
steel
energy
fuel
metal
Because of Europe's factorization, they suffer from ________________.
Air pollution
over-population
no power
industrial pollution
Energy companies began to tap gas fields between the ________________ and the Netherlands.
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Denmark
The North Sea oil fields are major sources of _____________ for the world.
oil
petroleum
lumber
nickel
About _________ percent of Europe’s land is suitable for farming.
10
21
33
69
_______________ is cut from vast forests on the Scandinavian Peninsula and in the Alps.
timber
iron
nickel
oil
Oil and natural gas were found beneath the _____________ Sea floor.
North
China
Mediterranean
Indian
Norway, the Netherlands, the ______________, and __________________ now pump oil from rigs as far as 400 miles out in the ocean.
United Kingdom, Denmark
Poland, Germany
Hungary, Austria
Spain, Portugal
