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WorksheetsChapter 11: Northwestern Europe Review Guide
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 2hrs 0mins
Fine, yellowish, brownish topsoil made up of particles of silt and clay, carried and deposited by the wind.
loess
fragmentation
guest worker
foehn
avalance
A foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country.
loess
fragmentation
guest worker
foehn
avalanche
A dry wind that blows from the leeward sides of mountains, sometimes melting snow and causing avalanches; term used mainly in Europe.
loess
fragmentation
guest worker
foehn
avalanche
A large mass of ice, snow or rock that slides down a mountainside.
loess
fragmentation
guest worker
foehn
avalanche
A movement within a country, such as from rural areas to urban areas.
acid deposition
internal migration
Industrial Revolution
mistral
devolution
The rapid, major change in the economy beginning in the 1700's with the introduction of power-driven machinery.
acid deposition
internal migration
Industrial Revolution
mistral
devolution
A strong wind from the Alps that can bring cold air to southern France.
acid deposition
internal migration
Industrial Revolution
mistral
devolution
The Central Uplands is an area of ....
low-lying and flat land eroded by glaciers.
rugged coastlines, low hills, and rolling plains.
high plateaus, low rounded mountains and hills
high, jagged mountains and flat plateaus.
What country is 40?
Belgium
Austria
United Kingdom
Switzerland
What country is 33?
Netherlands
Germany
Monaco
Belgium
What country is 19?
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Most of Northwestern Europe was once part of which of the following empires?
Greek
Roman
Spanish
Persian
Which of the following religions became the official religion of the Roman Empire?
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
One of the most important outcomes of the Crusades (religious wars between Muslims and Christians) was:
The opening of Western Europe for Muslim conquest
The closing of all trade routes between Western Europe and America
The opening of trade routes between Western Europe and the Middle East
The merging of Christian and Islamic beliefs
The Renaissance (rebirth) is a period when educated Europeans developed an interest in
Roman and Persian cultures
Greek and Persian cultures
Greek and American cultures
Greek and Roman cultures
The German monk who started the Reformation (the splintering of the Christian Church) was
Martin Luther
King Henry VIII
King Louis XVI
Charles the Great
One of the biggest complaints that Martin Luther had against the Catholic Church leaders was
the sale of indulgences
the punishments for sin
the sale of land
the holding of mass on Sunday
During the Enlightenment, people began to believe that society and government could change for the better.
True
False
Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers believed in freedom of speech and press
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
John Locke
Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers believed in the Social Contract (people can change their government if the government fails to protect their rights)
Voltaire
Montesquieu
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers believed in the separation of powers
John Locke
Montesquieu
Wollstonecraft
Voltaire
Economic system where people have the right to own a business and set their own prices for products made.
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Traditional
Economic system that came out as a response to Capitalism because of the abuse suffered by workers.
Communism
Socialism
Traditional
Capitalism
World War I officially ended with one of the following treaties:
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of France
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Tordesillas
German resentment about how World War I ended was a cause for the rise of which of the following leaders:
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Franklin Roosevelt
One of the darkest events in world history, where over 6 million Jews were murdered during World War 2
The atomic attacks on Japan
Trail of Tears
The Holocaust
The fire bombing of Germany
A power struggle (threat of a war) between the United States (capitalism) and the Soviet Union (Communism)
World War I
World War II
Trench Warfare
Cold War
A union of around 27 European countries hoping to become an economic power house:
The European Union
The United Nations
The Atlantic Charter
The Union of Communist Nations
The Cold War ended in 1991 with the dissolution of the United States:
True
False
Which of the following countries was NOT a part of the Central Powers alliance of World War I?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
The United States
Which of the following countries did not belong to the Allied Nations of World War I
France
Russia
England
Germany
The last emperor of the Western half of the Roman Empire was
Romulus Augustulus
King Henry VIII
King Henry II
Alexander the Great
