Vocabulary
Phycial Geography
History
Life in the Region
Map Skills
100
This is the name of the Nazis’ government-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
100
This is the highest mountain range in Western Europe.
What are the Alps?
100
The development of this metal allowed people to make better farm equipments, tools and weapons.
What is bronze?
100
This is organization was the forerunner to the EU (European Union).
What is the EEC (European Economic Community)?
100
These 2 countries in Western Europe are islands.
What are the United Kingdom and Ireland?
200
This is the process of making bronze by melting and fusing tin and copper.
What is smelting?
200
These are the names of the two climates in Western Europe.
What are the Marine West Coast Climate and the Mediterranean Climate?
200
These were conflicts between Christians and the Muslims who controlled the area around Jerusalem.
What are the crusades?
200
This is the family of related languages spoken in Western Europe.
What is Indo-European languages?
200
The Pyrenes Mountains form the border between these two countries.
What are France and Spain?
300
This is the religious journey to Jerusalem that people made in medieval times.
What is pilgrimage?
300
This is not a major river in Western Europe? A. Seine River C. Rhine River B. Paraná River D. Danube River
What is B. Paraná River?
300
These two countries were the major world powers following World War II and during the Cold War.
What are the US and the Soviet Union (Russia)?
300
This language is unrelated to any other modern languages and is spoken in the Pyrenees region.
What is Basque?
300
These three seas surround Western Europe.
What are the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea?
400
These are the walls or barriers the Dutch build to hold back the waters of the North Sea
What are dikes?
400
These winds, warmed by the Gulf, create a milder temperature in most of Western Europe.
What are the Westerlies?
400
This is the name of the French general who brought much of Europe under French control.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
400
This is the cause of most of the population growth in Western Europe today.
What is immigration?
400
Name the three smallest countries in Western Europe.
What are Luxembourg, Monaco, and Liechtenstein?
500
The type of economy in Western Europe today that depends more on services than it does on manufacturing.
What is postindustrial?
500
Name three of the five engergy resources of Western Europe.
What are natural gas, oil, fast flowing rivers, coal, and peat?
500
In the late 1700's this document was written in France to declare that power should come from the people and not the king.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
500
Name at least two benefits of high speed train travel.
What are less pollution, less traffic, and faster travel?
500
List the capitols of four of the following coutnries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belguim, the Netherlands, Austria, or Switzerland.
What are Dublin, Ireland; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belguim; Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Vienna, Austria, and Bern, Switzerland?
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