¼ of Europe, especially northern Europe, is covered by what type of landform?
What is plains
100
How many time zones does Russia cover?
What is 9
100
Persistently frozen ground is known as ________________.
What is permafrost
100
Most of the population of Russia is found in the ______________.
What is the Western Part of the country
200
Europe's unofficial lingua franca is ____________.
What is english
200
The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the ______.
What is Rhine
200
In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond describes the “major __” as a reason that the people of Eurasia were able develop civilized societies quicker than other continents.
What is 5
200
The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and sparse grasses) is known as _______________.
What is the Tundra
200
The former Soviet Union dissolved in ______.
What is 1991
300
Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries?
What is a) Muslims
b) Chinese
c) Hispanics
d) Russians
e) Evangelical Christians
300
The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?
What is the Pyrenees
300
____________ is a voluntary association in economic, political, or cultural spheres of three or more independent states willing to yield some measure of sovereignty for their mutual benefit.
What is supranationalism
300
The longest river in Russia is
What is the Volga
300
Lake Baikal is not only the oldest and deepest lake in the world but also contains ___ of the world’s unfrozen fresh water.
What is 1/5
400
Mount Vesuvius is located in which country?
What is Italy
400
The Danube River empties into the ________________.
What is the Black Sea
400
Russia's railroad network radiates outward from Moscow, thereby providing the city with a high degree of ___________.
What is centrality
400
The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the _________________.
What is the Ural Mountains
400
How do the climate and terrain of Siberia affect the extraction of resources?
What is It is difficult and expensive to reach areas with abundant resources.
500
Which of the following cities is NOT part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
What is Brussels
500
What have Europeans done to try to solve the problem of so many languages?
What is Required school children one or two other languages besides their native tongue.
500
The _____ Mountains lie in the corridor between the Black and Caspian seas.
What is the Caucasus
500
__________ was responsible for building a new Russian capital on the doorstep of Finland during the eighteenth century.
Who is Peter the Great
500
Which of Europe’s landscape regions contains important cities such as, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Warsaw?