*Social Studies Midterm Study Guide*
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Test 1 Review ?’s – Europe geography, languages, religion, literacy rate, and history.
1.) What are the 5 themes of geography (Remember: what is the acronym?)
2.) What is geography?
3.) What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
4.) What sea touches the southern part of Europe?
5.) What mountain range separates Spain from France?
6.) What mountain range runs along the border of Italy?
7.) What is the name of the plain in Europe that has very fertile land? (Hint: “breadbasket” of
Europe)
8.) What countries make the Scandinavian Peninsula?
9.) What countries make up the Iberian Peninsula?
10.) What does the English Channel separate?
11.) What major mountain range separates European Russia from Asia Russia?
12.) What are the three major rivers of Europe? Which one is the longest?
13.) What countries make up the United Kingdom?
14.) Who is the U.K.’s #1 trading partner?
15.) What is the Gulf Stream? What does it do to the climate of the U.K.?
16.) What is the leading job in the United Kingdom due to a loss of manufacturing jobs?
17.) Where do the majority of people move to find more jobs? (rural, suburbs, or urban area?)
18.) What is permanently frozen soil called?
19.) What sea touches the northern part of Russia?
20.) What is the most densely populated country in Europe?
21.) What are the two islands off the coast of Italy’s peninsula?
22.) What is the most valuable mineral/natural resource in Italy?
23.) What are two of the most important crops in Italy?
24.) What are the three major language categories of Europe?
25.) What two languages fall under Germanic?
26.) What language falls under Slavic?
27.) What three languages fall under Romance?
28.) What are the three major religions of Europe?
29.) What is the largest religion practiced in Europe and all of the world?
30.) What is another name for an Islamic follower?
31.) What is the house of worship for Jews? Christians? Muslims?
32.) What is the oldest religion out of all three?
33.) What is monotheism?
34.) Define literacy rate.
35.) Define standard of living.
36.) When the literacy rate in a country is typically high, what else is high?
37.) What type of countries have low literacy rates? Why?
38.) What are the three causes of European Exploration?
39.) What are the three natural resources they competed for?
40.) What religion were European’s trying to spread while exploring the world?
41.) What is imperialism?
42.) Which country in Europe began exploring the world first?
43.) How did Prince Henry help navigation and exploration?
Test 2 Review ?’s – Europe history continued..
44.) What years were known as the Age of Exploration for Europeans?
45.) Where did Prince Henry the Navigator send ships to?
46.) What was Portugal’s most profitable colony?
47.) Spanish conquistadors conquered what two civilizations?
48.) Which empire was the largest in history?
49.) What does “the sun never sets on the British empire” mean?
50.) What land did Christopher Columbus first discover?
51.) Who claimed Australia for Great Britain?
52.) Which coast of Australia did Captain James Cook claim for England in 1770?
53.) What was the name of James Cook ship he sailed to Australia?
54.) Who were the natives of Australia?
55.) What did the natives of Australia use to construct tools and weapons?
56.) What are three things Europeans brought to Australia?
57.) After the British arrived in Australia, where were the natives forced to live?
58.) What new colony did the British create in Australia after the United States became
independent? Why?
59.) What are the countries that divided Africa?
60.) World War 1 is also known as the ___________ war, and the “________ to end all
__________.”
61.) What are the four causes of WW1?
62.) What is nationalism?
63.) What was the cause of the Russian Revolution?
64.) What were the punishments given to Germany due to the Treaty of Versailles?
65.) What year did the Great Depression begin and end?
66.) What environmental disaster affected farmers more than any other U.S. citizen? Why?
67.) What is a “Hooverville”? Why did they give it this name?
68.) Who were the two Superpowers of the world during the Cold War?
69.) What is the significance of the Cold War’s name?
70.) How long did the Cold War last?
71.) What leader came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985?
72.) Who did he come peaceful with? Who did he become friends with?
73.) What happened in Germany in 1989?
74.) Define Reunification.
Test 3 Review ?’s – Europe government
75.) What is an Autocracy? Oligarchy? Democracy?
76.) What type of democracy does U.K. have? Russia? Germany?
77.) What do they call the chief executive of U.K.? Russia? Germany?
78.) What do they call the “symbol” in the U.K.? Russia? Germany?
79.) What are the two Houses of the U.K. parliament?
80.) What are the two houses of Germany?
81.) What are the two houses of Russia?
82.) Describe the purposes of the European Union.
83.) What is the currency of the EU?