WorksheetsGeo review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
Rich, black top soil found in Northern European plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine
Chernozem
Fjord
Czar
Karst
a long, steep-side glacial valley now filled by seawater
Fjord
Chernozem
Czar
Dike
The ruler of Russia until 1917 revolution; originally from Latin word Caesar, title of Roman emperors. (a)
Match the following
Terrain dominated by limestone bedrock and characterized by roots ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, etc
Karst
Division of a region into smaller hostile regions
Balkanization
A spring that throws forth intermittent jets of heated water and steam
Geyser
A state that assumes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens
Welfare State
Large bank of Earth and stone that holds back water
Dike
Society based on equitable distribution of wealth, land, and public ownership of production
Communism
Dike
Hajj
Arable
The holocaust killed how much people in World War II (a)
In Russia. “Restructuring”. Part of Gorbachev’s Nazi Reime during World War II (a)
Reorder the following
Russian term for a new openness in areas of politics, social issues, and media; part of Gorbachev’s reform plans
Glasnost
An independently governed community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands, notably present in Ancient Greece
City-State
Rebirth; the period in European civilization characterized by a sarge of interest in classical learning and values
Renaissance
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures and symbols represents words or sounds.
Hieroglyphics
Dike
Communism
Bedouin
Member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and South West Asia
Bedouin
City-state
Sunni
Arable
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A communal form or settlement in Israel
Kibbutz
A cooperative settlement of small individual farms in Israel
Moshav
Belief in one God
Monotheism
A center where cultures developed and form which ideas and traditions spread out word
Culture Hearth
Wedge-Shaped symbols that were pressed into Clay trablets
Cuneiform
A large temple built by the Sumerians
Ziggurat
Kibbutz
Arid
A
Excessively dry
Arid
Arable
Ziggurat
Bedouin
Land that can be farmed on
Arable
Arid
Ziggurat
Communism
Match the following
A branch of Islam that regards the first four successors of Mohammed as his rightful successors
Sunni
A branch of Islam that regards Muhammad’s son in law (Ali) and the imams as his rightful successors
Shia
Islamic law derived from the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad
Shari’ah
In Islam, the yearly piligr image to Makkah that Muslims make at least once in a lifetime
Hajj
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This island is a part of Europe but is sitting on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that marks the boundary between the North American tectonic Plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate
Iceland
What is the largest enthic group in Eastern Europe?
Slavs
What is the largest minority group in Europe
Roma
Theses countries make up the Liberian Peninsula
Spain and Portugal
Romance languages were based on what?
Latin
Attempted to reverse the pattern of Balkanization in Eastern Europe by combining many smaller regions beaded on ethnicity
Yugoslavia
Volga
Latin
Iceland
What forms a natural border between European Russia and Siberian Russia?
The Ural mountains
The alps mountains
The Volga mountains
None of the above
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The longest River in Europe
Volga
What’s the oldest and deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikal
We’re do most people live in Russia and were
West of the Ural Mountains
What group came to power because of the Russian Revolution
The Bolisheviks
What type of economic system did Russia have during the Solviet Era?
Command economy
What countries colonized North Africa
France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy
France, Spain, and Italy
France, United Kingdom, and Spain
France, and Spain
What was the major canal located in Egypt
Suez Canal
Bolisheviks canal
Czar canal
