Unit 11
The illustrations from Beatrix Potter's books portrayed this
What are the settings she came to love from the Lake District?
This lies to the west of Estonia
What is the Baltic Sea?
The way a certain group of people think and the way they do things is the definition of this.
What is culture?
This is the largest country in the world in terms of land area
What is Russia?
This was the name of the first submarine to pass under the North Pole
What is the USS Nautilus?
This is the best known mineral resource in the Lake District.
What is slate?
These islands are located north of Scotland
What are the Faroe Islands?
This everyday language was developed from the Jews’ use of Hebrew, German and other languages.
What is English?
This is the distinguishing role that geographers attribute to the Ural Mountains in world geography
What is the dividing line between Europe and Asia?
A country can generally claim this many miles of land under the sea according to UNCLOS
What is 200 miles?
By the early 1500s the tulip was an honored flower in this empire
What is Ottoman?
This city in Finland has been the site of several important international meetings and summit conferences.
What is Helsinki?
Bohemia and Moravia formed this country after the fall of Communism.
What is the Czech Republic or Czechia?
This is the deepest lake in the world
What is Lake Baikal?
The line above which the sun does not set for at least one day per year and above which the sun does not rise for at least one day per year is known as this
What is the Arctic Circle?
This plan strengthened the nations of Europe politically and economically to resist Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Friends from Estonia developed the software for this internet calling platform in 2003.
What is Skype?
This peninsula extends from Ukraine into the Black Sea
What is Crimea?
This swampy, grassy land covers most of northern Siberia
What is tundra?
This vessel was trapped by the Antarctic ice pack about 100 miles short of its desired landing site
What was the Endurance?
These countries were the 2 great powers in the post-World War II world
What were the United States and the Soviet Union?
The Tinganes on the Faroe Islands is considered to be the oldest one of these in the world.
What is parliament?
This Hungarian Catholic leader was an outspoken critic of totalitarian government and spent time in prison.
Who is Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty?
Workers built this to transport supplies for the Trans-Siberian Railroad to both sides of Lake Baikal
What is a temporary rail line across the ice?
This is the new territory of Canada that was taken from the Northwest Territories
What is Nunavut?