Physical Geography
Landmarks
Capitals
Natural Resources
Vocab
100
This is the number of countries in Europe
What is 49?
100
This name refers to a bell inside the clock tower.
What is Big Ben?
100
The capital of France
What is Paris?
100
Water in Europe is used for farming and this type of energy
What is hydroelectricity?
100
Permanently frozen ground
What is permafrost
200
Polders are important to the Netherlands for these reasons
What is land for cities and farmland
200
The book Dracula is about this man, who lived in Bran Castle
Who is Vlad Tepes (the Impaler)?
200
The capital of Portugal
What is Lisbon?
200
Two countries with an abundance of fossil fuels
What is (Germany, UK, Norway)
200
The Russian forest
What is the Taiga?
300
Asian Russia
What is Siberia?
300
Once a royal fortress, this landmark has a Pyramid Entrance built by the famous I.M. Pei
What is the Louvre?
300
The capital of Switzerland
What is Bern?
300
Three countries that benefit from hydroelectricity
What is (Spain, Switzerland, Sweeden, Norway, France, Austria, Portugal)?
300
A treeless plain covered in permafrost
What is the tundra?
400
The four regions of Europe
What is N. Euro. Plain, NW Highlands, Central Uplands, Alpine Mountains.?
400
Seven notes on the musical scale are represented in this landmark
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
400
The capital of Lichtenstein
What is Vaduz?
400
This natural resource caused the explosion at Chernobyl
What is Nuclear power (uranium)?
400
New land salvaged from the ocean
What is a polder?
500
In order, the longest rivers in England, the United Kingdom, and Eurasia.
What is Thames, Severn, and Volga?
500
These professions contributed to the design of the Hagia Sofia
What is a physicist, mathematician, and a scientist?
500
The capital of Malta
What is Valetta?
500
The reasons Russia cannot sufficiently develop their resources
What is harsh climate, size, lack of navigable rivers.
500
Russian term for black fertile earth
What is chernozem?