Countries
What is the largest country in the world?
Russia
Air Pollution is a major problem in what country?
The UK
What separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe?
The Pyrenees Mountains
What is the largest river in Germany?
The Rhine River
What are the three major religions in Europe?
Christianity, Judaism, Islam
The Iberian Peninsula includes which countries?
Spain and Portugal
What environmental problem led Germany to pass several environmental preservation laws?
Acid Rain
The Ural Mountains are in what country?
Russia
What separates the UK from the rest of Europe?
The English Channel
What are the languages spoken by each of the following countries?
The UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Austria
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, German
The Scandinavian Peninsula includes which countries?
Norway and Sweden
A nuclear explosion occurred in what eastern European city?
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Most of the best farmland in Europe is located where?
The European Plain
What river passes through four different capital cities?
The Danube River
What currency (money) is used by nearly all European countries?
The Euro
Describe the difference between England, the UK, and Great Britain.
England is a part of Great Britain; Britain is one island made up of England, Scotland, and Wales; The UK includes both the island of Great Britain and Norther Ireland
What was one of the two biggest fallouts from the nuclear explosion in Ukraine?
Cancer caused by radiation and the relocation of people
What are two countries that the Alps Mountains are in?
France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria
What are two countries that we have studied which are on the Mediterranean Sea?
Spain, France, Italy, Greece
Explain why languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese sound similar and have similar words.
They all started in the same area and developed in close proximity to each other. (Bonus points if you know they all come from Latin!)
In what part of Russia do most people live?
Western Russia
What can cause environmental problems like air pollution, acid rain, and nuclear radiation to spread to other areas?
The wind
What are at least two countries the European Plain is located in?
Russia, Poland, Germany, Ukraine
What are two reason that are major cities often found on rivers?
They offer routs for trade and travel, easy access to water for farming, hygiene, tourism
Landforms like mountain ranges made travel and trade difficult for much of history? How did this affect Europe?
The emergence of several different cultures and languages