Europe Unit Test Review

Europe Physical Geography

100

Forms a natural border between France & Spain.

What is the Pyrenees Mts?

200

Formed as the African & Eurasian plates collided.

What is the Alps Mountains?

300

Contains the countries of Portugal, Spain, & Andorra.

What is the Iberian Peninsula?

400

Located in southern Europe. Runs through France, Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, Germany, Slovenia. 

What is the Danube River?

500

The Atlantic Ocean covers _____________ of the world and is ____________ in size.

What is 20% and increasing?

Russian People

100

Established Russia as a communist state.

Who is Vladimir Lenin?

200

Russian leader that enforced collectivization and is believed to killed over 20 million Russians.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

300

Tore up the pact with the Mongols and raised an Army to overthrow their rule.

Who is Ivan III (the Great)?

400

Declared himself the first czar of Russia.

Who is Ivan IV (the Terrible)?

500

Got Russia involved in World War 1. Was also the last czar of Russia.

Who was Nicolas II?

Russian History

100

Faberge created a series of these for the Russian Imperial family.

What is eggs?

200

Married into the Russian royal family. Considered the rightful heir to Peter the Great because she built and modernized Russia.

Who was Catherine the Great?

300

He was the French leader that has his invasion of Russia halted due to harsh winter conditions in Russia.

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

400

Russia sold this to the United States in 1867.

What is Alaska?

500

Mikhail Gorbachev's policy that aimed to rebuild the Soviet economy by giving power back to factory and farm owners.

What is perestroika?

Europe History

100

Spread throughout Europe due to trade, but stemmed from fleas on rats.

What is the Black Death?

200

This era gave us the philosophers Aristotle, Socrates & Plato.

What is Ancient Greece?

300

This country in central Europe did not fall under Axis control during WWII.

What is Switzerland?

400

Italy traded with this empire, which made it possible for wealthy families to help sponser artists and researchers during the Renaissance.

What is the Ottoman Empire?

500

Pope Urban II called for Christians to united and take back Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.

What is the Crusades?

Random

100

How many time zones exist?

What is eleven?

200

Made up of 90% of the European population. They were not freed in Russia until the early 1860s. (Hint looking for the Russian version of the name)

What is serfs?

300

Why is it difficult to access Siberia's resources (hint need two answers)?

What is the climate is too cold and no infrastructure exists.

400

Located in eastern Russia and borders the Pacific Ocean.

What is the Kamchatka Peninsula?

500

This organization was formed in 1992 (but made official in 1993) to provide common social, economic, and security policies throughout the continent.

What is the European Union?