Study Guide: Geography 1002 Test 2 (Europe & Russia)
Be able to locate the countries or places in the questions below (1-13):
1. Which is the country where the Basque people live and have achieved greater
autonomy within that country?
2. Where is one of the most developed industrial areas of Europe – centered on
which country?
3. Which are the countries where the people voted not to be part of the European
Union.
4. Locate the North Sea oil fields.
5. Which country is developed in the north, but no so well developed in the southern
part, the Mezzoogiorno?
6. Where is the core area of Russia?
7. Locate Belarus.
8. Locate Serbia (Serbia & Montenegro).
9. In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
10. Locate the Baltic Sea.
11. Locate the Atlantic Ocean.
12. Locate the Mediterranean Sea.
13. Locate the Black Sea.
14. Describe the levels of economic development in Europe from east to west.
15. How does Europe rank as a world population cluster?
16. Describe Europe’s level of urbanization.
17. Which economic sector is the largest in Europe’s economies, certainly in the west?
18. What is the key characteristic of Europe’s relative location on the globe?
19. Name the major chain of mountains in Europe.
20. Which European countries are in the Western Uplands?
21. Which is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions?
22. What climate type dominates Eastern Europe and consists of hot summers and
long, cold winters?
23. What factors helped Britain be the place where the Industrial Revolution began?
24. Define the term agglomerative forces in relationship to industrial development.
25. Where and when did Europe's political revolution (changes in the way European
countries were governed) begin?
26. Name the political geographer who proposed the heartland theory, which placed
high value on the territory in the western Soviet Union.
27. Italy’s core area is centered on which Italian city?
28. What is Spain's leading industrial area?
29. As of 2003, which were the member countries of the European Union?
30. Which current political entities were a part of former (pre-1990) Yugoslavia?
31. Describe Europe’s rivers as transportation routes.
32. On which river is Europe's economic core centered?
33. Which is the chief territorial occupant of the Iberian Peninsula?
34. Greenland has been politically affiliated with the Nordic country of
35. In South Europe, what practice has created problems including high salinity levels in
soil, water shortages, and the depletion of reservoirs?
36. Which is the eastern Mediterranean island which has been divided between Greeks
and Turks?
37. Which country is the home of the “White Russians”?
38. The Scottish devolution threat affects which European country?
39. Which of the Nordic countries (northern Europe) is the least "Nordic" country in the
Northern European (Nordic or Scandinavian) Region?
40. Name a Central or Eastern European country with a large Muslim population.
41. The forces of devolution split which European country into two separate republics in
the 1990's?
42. The Catalonian autonomy movement is a major concern to which country?
43. What movements or major developments in Europe occurred around the same time
as the “Age of Exploration”?
44. what change represents the defining characteristic of Europe's industrial revolution?
45. What is the goal inherent in the creation of the European Union:
46. What is the strategy that the EU employs in an effort to reduce costs of production in
the wealthiest EU member countries?
47. The climatic effects of continentality are most clearly observable in which country
from chapters 8 & 9?
48. Novosibirsk is a leading manufacturing center in which Soviet region?
49. The Shi'ite Azeri ethnic group is located in which country?
50. Name the main river of the West Siberian Plain.
51. Which type of soil is found in the agriculturally fertile areas of southern Russia and
Ukraine?
52. What is the strategic importance of the city of Murmansk?
53. When the communists controlled the USSR, what was the name of St. Petersburg?
54. Name the river most closely associated with the region known as the Povolzhye, the
"Mississippi" of Russia.
55. Which is the leading industrial region of the Eastern Frontier (West Siberia) of
Russia?
56. Which part of Russia most clearly illustrates the principle of devolution (a country
breaking apart into smaller units)?
57. Who was the chief Russian political figure who initiated change in the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe in the late 1980's?
58. Where is most of the population of Russia found?
59. What frequently discussed climatic condition or process might benefit Russia in the
future?
60. What is the term for the vegetation on a treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and
grasses), which is found in much of Siberia?
61. What is the term for frozen ground where even the subsoil remains frozen in the
"summer”?
62. Which of the Russian physiographic subdivisions contains the heartland (and
Moscow)?
63. Name the mountain chain in west central Russia that is often regarded as the
boundary between Europe and Asia?
64. The modern Russian state, which began as a forest-based empire launched by Czar
Ivan the Terrible, was centered on which city?
65. Russia’s core centers on which city?
66. Moscow lies at the heart of what industrial region?
67. Describe the living conditions in most Russian cities.
68. What are Moscow’s locational advantages?
69. In 1917 after the Revolution, the Bolsheviks moved the capital city to what city?
70. The USSR was divided into 15 major political subdivisions (like states or provinces).
What was the official designation for these subdivisions?
71. What term somewhat describes the Russian political system?
72. What term describes the Russian political structure?
73. How many ethnic groups reside in Russia?
74. What are the major internal challenges faced by the Russian government?
75. The railroad network of the Soviet Union radiates from Moscow, providing the city
with a high degree of what?
76. Name the region which is 75 percent Armenian, but is located within Muslim
Azerbaijan.
77. Name the city which is an oil center in the Azerbaijan.
78. Which region is often referred to as "Russia's Freezer”?
79. Name the island with significant oil potential that may prove to change the economic
geography of the Russian Far East?
80. Which Russian port is kept open by warm water from the North Atlantic Drift?
81. Locate the following rivers on maps: Rhine River, Danube River, Volga River, Seine
River, Don River, Po River, Thames River,
82. Locate the following mountains on maps: Ural Mountains, Alps Mountains, Pyrenees
Mountains, Apennine Mountains, Caucasus Mountains, Kjolen Mountains,
83. Locate the following plains on maps: Northern European Plain, West Siberian Plain,
Russian Plain,
84. Locate the following cities on maps: Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris,
Moscow, Kiev, St. Petersburg, London, Rome
85. Compare the GNP per capita of the newest member countries of the European
Union with that of the older members.
86. The escape of radioactive gasses into the atmosphere from Chrenobyl in the
Ukraine best illustrates which of the four laws of ecology?
87. What were the themes of the government of Russia/USSR at one time or another
from the 1600's through 1970?