Unit 4 Europe – Study Guide
1. What are the Five European
peninsulas?
2. What country makes up the Peninsula
of Jutland?
3. What two countries make up the
Iberian Peninsula?
4. What is a fjord?
5. What is a polder?
6. What is the Meseta?
7. What are the three major seas that
surround the Italian Peninsula?
8. What is the Massif Central?
9. What mountain chain is shared by
Germany, Switzerland, France, and
Italy?
10. What mountain chain separates Spain
from France?
11. What mountain chain is shared by
Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine?
12. What mountain chain extends the
length of the Italian Peninsula?
13. What is the longest river in Europe?
14. What is the highest mountain in
Europe?
15. What country owns the Faroe Islands?
16. What country owns Corsica?
17. What body of water separates Sweden
and Finland?
18. What body of water separates the
United Kingdom and France?
19. What narrow body of water separates
Spain from North Africa?
20. List the five Nordic countries
21. What is the monetary system used by
most European countries today?
22. List the three countries that occupy the
Italian Peninsula
23. On what island is Mt. Etna located?
24. What country was the birthplace of
democracy?
25. Who started the Protestant
Reformation in 1517?
26. The Basques want complete
independence from what country?
27. What three countries make up the
Benelux?
28. Europe is dominated by what two
countries?
29. During the 1990’s, what country
experienced a civil war and a break-up
into several smaller countries?
30. In what country did the Olympic sport
of speed-skating originate?
31. In what country did the Industrial
Revolution begin?
32. What is Anti-Semitism?
33. Many European countries are members
of what economic and political alliance?
34. What European country won its
independence from Great Britain in
1921?
35. What country does not participate in
the European Union?