Geography 101
World Map Questions
Europe
Europe Vocabulary
Mostly Europe Vocabulary
100
What is the prime meridian?
Longitude line dividing earth in half
100
What ocean lies between Africa and the Americas?
Atlantic
100
What is the name of a landform surrounded by water on all sides?
Island
100
How does the North Atlantic Drift specifically affect the climate of Northwestern Europe?
It warms the region
100
Where did much of the European population move by the 1900s?
Cities
200
What is the equator?
Latitude line dividing the earth in half
200
If you wanted to travel from Antarctica to the equator, in which direction would you head?
North
200
What is the name of a landform surrounded by water on all sides but one?
Peninsula
200
What physical feature affects the climate of Southern Europe?
Mediterranean Sea
200
What is a type of government with a king or queen as head of state and a parliament as lawmaking branch?
Constitutional monarchy
300
A huge majority of the Earth's people live where?
10% of the land and the Northern Hemisphere
300
Which two continents are a part of one huge land mass?
Europe and Asia
300
Europe's most populated region is?
North European Plain
300
Where is the center of the Roman Catholic Church?
Vatican City
300
What is the title for a self-governing city, such as in Ancient Greece?
City State
400
About how many people live on the Earth today?
7 billion
400
What ocean borders Africa to the east?
Indian
400
What two sides are home to the Alpine Mountains?
Italy and Switzerland
400
Where and when did the Industrial Revolution first begin?
Britain (England), late 1700s
400
What is another name for very small countries?
Microstate
500
If world population is growing, is the birth rate higher or lower than the death rate?
higher
500
What ocean lies between Asia and the Americas?
Pacific
500
What is the significance of the Rhine River?
It connects industrial cities of Europe
500
What is the common type of government in European countries today?
Democracies
500
What is the best definition for the word socialism?
the government owns and runs most of the production
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