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Geography Review
100
This is the phrase used to explain the system that European nations have that provides tax-payer funded services.
What is "welfare" state, also known as "cradle to the grave."
100
This is a parcel of land reclaimed from the sea.
What is a polder?
100
This is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun.
What is Scandinavia?
100
This is why transubstantiation is not practiced amongst Protestant Christians.
What is because Hebrews 10:10,12-14 (Romans 6:9-10 and Titus 3:5) reminds us that we are sanctified once for all and not a continuous need to offer the sacrifice of Christ. John 6 is not a literal but metamorphical reference (way, truth, life). Partaking of communion with this idea leads to works not grace mentality.
100
This is elevation or height above sea level
What is altitude?
200
This is the largest economy in the UK.
What is the Great Britain?
200
This means it is the largest city in its area, state or region, usually much higher than the rest.
What is a primate city? (UK example)
200
Approximately 730 tonnes of plastic are dumped into this body of water daily.
What is Mediterranean Sea which is devastating marine life?
200
These two continents are working together under NATO.
Where are North America and Europe?
200
Chasms, gorges, and ravines are examples of small ones.
What is a Canyon?
300
This is the type of government in Russia.
What is a republic with a Federal Assembly where the Prime Minister elects the Assembly legislators?
300
This is a belief that rejects or excludes religion.
What is secularism?
300
This country had the highest concentration of Jews prior to WWII?
What is Poland?
300
This is the primary religious affiliation in Ireland.
What is Roman Catholic?
300
This is a Delta.
What is a fan shaped deposit of mud and sand at the mouth of many rivers?
400
This is the type of health care that is wide-spread in Europe.
What is National Health Care or government funded?
400
This is the mass killing or expulsion of a religious or ethnic group.
What is ethnic cleansing?
400
These three countries are located on the Iberian Peninsula,
Who are Portugal, Spain and Andorra?
400
This is why the current King of England is called the "green king."
What is because he wants to address the high problems of water, land, and air pollution, even going to lengths of designating "green space," an area of grass or trees inside an urban area.
400
This is a dry portion of land where there is little or no rainfall.
What is a desert?
500
These types of buildings reflect the effects of WWII that still lingers.
What is Brutalist architecture that is utilitarian and "block" like with harsh lines and sharp angles?
500
This is the primary geographical challenge for Ukraine.
What is the large plains that make for an easy invasion?
500
This tower is 12 feet, 10 inches off center.
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
500
Compared to England where pollution is higher than most countries in Europe, this country has developed this system to have a clean, renewable energy source from natural resources.
Who is Scandinavia which uses Geothermal energy to generate heat, electricity, and power for industry?
500
This is a precipice.
What is a high overhanging edge of a cliff?
600
This is why Russia/Putin does not Ukraine to join the EU.
Explain.
600
This is the biome that covers most of Iceland and Greenland.
What is the tundra where there is frost-molded landscapes, extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons- dead organic material is often used for key nutrients in this area.
600
Which countries are mostly covered the the Pinsk?
Where is Belarus and Ukraine which are mostly covered by this swampy marsh also called Pripet?
600
Because the government is more engaged in industry, most European countries have this type of economy.
What is a mixed economy where the government operates industries more than private companies?
600
This is a mound made up of sand in the desert and along the seashore formed by blowing wind.
What is a dune?
700
Paris banned these on certain days.
What is driving your private vehicle?
700
This is was sanctioned by the Czars.
What is Russian Orthodoxy but religion in general was discouraged after the Russian Revolution?
700
This is where 80% of the population of Sweden live (also the capital).
Where is Stockholm?
700
This unique transportation and restaurant in the Netherlands leads to a pleasant atmosphere for patrons to slow down.
What is bicycles which are more numerous than the number of people living there and cafes?
700
Piece of land that juts our far into the water but connected to another land mass.
What is a peninsula?
800
The Swiss government have built these for 114% of their population.
What is shelters in case of nuclear war?
800
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to counter this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
800
Located on the plains, this is rich black topsoil.
What is chernozem in Asian Russia?
800
This city is known for its classical music.
Where is Vienna?
800
This is a long narrow inlet of the sea between two cliffs.
What is a Fjord?
900
This is one of the reasons that West Germany is more developed than Eastern Germany.
What is after WWII, they used Marshall plan funds from the US to create Wirtschaftswunder (The economic miracle) which created strong ports, free-market ideas, and natural waterways to revive their economy.
900
In the subarctic areas of Russia, this is the layer of soil beneath the surface.
What is permafrost?**
(How does it affect the economy and human geography?)- 243
900
This city is slowly sinking.
Where is Venice, Italy?
900
This is why the engineering of German's rivers is a strength and weakness.
What is when German engineers straightened the rivers, the natural winds a limited in filtering fertilizers and pesticides. It has allowed ships to go travel through easier but it has also decreased the fish population.
900
This is the country with the most famous of Fjords.
What is Norway?
1000
This is the next person in power right under the President in Russia.
What is a prime minister who is selected by the President and voted on by the State Duma. (248)
1000
This is an area that remains frozen all year, preventing vegetation from growing.
What is permafrost?
1000
This is the largest country on Earth.
Where is Russia?
1000
These are the top four reasons that Russia's Population is declining.
What are high abortion rate, heavy alcohol consumption, and drug abuse, and low fertility rates?
1000
This is what an Isthmus is.
What is: "a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger areas of land and separates 2 large bodies of water?"
1100
This is President Yeltsin's successor to the Russian presidency or CIS.
Who is Vladimir Putin, the longest serving Russian president next to Joseph Stalin? (since 2000-2008, 2012-)
1100
This is the world's longest continuous forest.
What is Taigra?
1100
This is the only E. European nation with a dictator still in control.
Where is Balarus?
1100
This is why Gorbachev found himself the president of no country in 1991.
What is the republics embraced perstroika and glasnost so much that they declared themselves independent of Russia.
1100
These are the 5 major peninsulas in Europe.
What are the Iberian, Balkan, Scandinavian, Apennine (Italian), and Fenn Scandinavian Peninsulas?
1200
This is the fastest growing religion in Europe.
What is Nones?
1200
This is the worst single environmental disaster in history but these are the solutions so far.
What is the reactor blowing up in a Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, but dome that was built to cover the containment area in 2016 and a 1000 square foot perimeter blocks off the exclusion area.
*Think about their response compared to other governments during disasters or pandemics.*
1200
E. European farmers been lauded by outsiders for these farming techniques.
What is no-tech farming with horses and hand tools to grow crops because they grow genetically diverse plants which are believed to naturally combat diseases and pests?
1200
This was the US's offer for economic assistance after the war, but the Soviet Bloc was only able to receive assistance from Russia with this plan.
What is the Marshall plan which mainly helped Western Europe because Russia developed the Moltov plan to meet the needs of the Eastern Soviet Bloc- Russian/ Communist aligned countries.
1200
An area of land in a dessert where water and plants are found
What is an Oasis?