World Geography
Europe Study Guide
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How large is the continent of Europe when compared to the other continents?
What percentage of the earth’s total land area does Europe make up?
How large is the Europe’s population when compared to the other countries?
How large is Europe’s population?
Europe and Asia can be combined to form what “supercontinent”?
What is considered the dividing line between Europe and Asia?
Europe is a continent of what?
What is a peninsula?
The Atlantic Highlands/Scandinavian Shield curves along the northwester edge of Europe and is an
area of what?
10. What are long, narrow inlets of the sea surrounded by high, rugged cliffs?
11. What is the Northern European Plain also known as?
12. Agriculturally, how important is the North European Plain to Europe?
13. As the North European Plain moves into Russia, what does it become known as?
14. What are the two reasons for the North European Plain’s mild climate?
15. The North Atlantic Drift is a warm water current that is an extension of what other ocean current?
16. What two things does the North Atlantic Drift bring to the North European Plain that is important for
the agriculture that takes place there?
17. What is the name for the constant flow of air from the west to the east in the temperate zones of
the earth?
18. In Europe, how do the prevailing westerlies affect the North European Plain’s climate?
19. What European region is made up primarily of heavily forested land that is sparsely populated?
20. What is the highest point of Western Europe?
21. What is the highest point in all of Europe?
22. What are two active volcanoes located in Italy?
23. What system of government exists where the government controls the means of production (there
is no private property)?
24. After World War II, Eastern Europe was controlled by what communist country?
25. What did Eastern Europe become known as?
26. Who was the harsh leader of the Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc?
27. How did communism affect Eastern Europe economically?
28. What is the largest island of the British Isles?
29. What is the second largest island of the British Isles?
30. What is Ireland also known as?
31. What undersea rail tunnel connects the British Isles to mainland Europe?
32. What is the more common name used for the Channel Tunnel?
33. Why do the Nordic Countries have such long, harsh winters?
34. What type of energy is produced from the heat of the earth’s interior?
35. What Nordic country uses geothermal energy?
36. Who are the indigenous people of the Nordic Countries?
37. The Sami live in a region traditionally known as what?
38. The Sami have a pastoral economy which revolves around hearing what animal?
39. What is another name for the Benelux Countries?
40. How populous are the Benelux Countries?
41. How much of the Netherlands land is reclaimed from the sea?
42. What are the embankments of earth and rock used by the Netherlands to hold back the sea?
43. What is the name used for the land in Netherland that is reclaimed from the sea?
44. What are the polders used for?
45. What ethnic group lives in one most the most productive areas of Spain?
46. What are the Basques an example of?
47. What is cultural divergence?
48. What have the Basques desired for many years?
49. Where is the Vatican City located?
50. What is the Vatican City?
51. What is another name for the headquarters of the Catholic Church?
52. What is important about the size of the Vatican City?
53. What economic and political organization was formed in Europe to stimulate trade and build up the
economies of its member nations?
54. What is the common currency of the European Union?
55. What is the name given to the execution of six million Jews in the Nazi concentration camps during
World War II?
56. How many Jews lived in Poland before World War II?
57. The Nazis forced the Jews of Poland to live where?
58. What is a ghetto?
59. What did the Nazi’s eventually do to the Jews of Poland?
60. How many Jews live in Poland today?
61. What country was formed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I?
62. What two countries later controlled Czechoslovakia?
63. What type of revolution did Czechoslovakia use against the Soviet Union?
64. What is a velvet revolution?
65. What two countries were eventually formed from Czechoslovakia?
66. What country was formed after World War I and was made up of six Slavic republics?
67. What happened in Yugoslavia after the fall of communism?
68. What groups battled for control of Bosnia for four years?
69. What is ethnic cleansing?
70. What is another name for ethnic cleansing?
71. Who had to step in and reestablish order in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995?
72. What were several Serbian leaders later found guilty of?
73. Why was the Ukraine important for Eastern Europe?
74. What happened in Chernobyl in 1986?
75. How large is Russia?
76. What is the longest river in Europe?
77. What is the world’s largest lake?
78. What is the world’s deepest lake?
79. Where is Russia facing ethnic turmoil?
80. What are four other problems Russia is facing?