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1) What is the largest country in Europe?
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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2) What country is shaped like a boot &
juts out into the Mediterranean Sea?
Italy
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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3) What country is an island nation?
United Kingdom
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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4) What countries are on the
Scandinavian Peninsula?
Norway & Sweden
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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5) What mountain range separates
Europe from Asia?
Ural Mountains
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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6) What peninsula is occupied by Spain
& Portugal?
Iberian Peninsula
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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7) What body of water is between
Europe, Africa, & Asia?
Mediterranean Sea
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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8) What river originating in the Alps that
influenced European history & economics?
Rhine River
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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9) What mountain range separates
Spain from France?
Pyrenees Mountains
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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10) What peninsula contains Norway & Sweden?
Scandinavian peninsula
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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11) What body of water separates
England from France?
English Channel
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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12) What region of rich farmland stretches
across the northern part of Europe?
European Plain
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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13) The United Kingdom includes what
countries?
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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14) In 1994, an underground rail tunnel
called the “Chunnel” was opened for
transportation under the English
Channel connecting what 2 countries?
Great Britain & France
Opening ) List as many European Countries as you can &
be prepared to identify on a map
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15) The Danube River flows from west
to east connecting what country to what
physical feature?
Germany to the Black Sea
Opening ) List as many European Countries as
you can & be prepared to identify on a map
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16) What is the largest river in Europe?
Volga River
Opening: List the 10 European Physical features
& be prepared to identify on a map.
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17) What are the main causes of Acid Rain?
Coal burning factories & car emissions
Opening: List the 3 environmental Issues in Europe
& tell me the country each issue is located
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18) After the Great Smog of 1952, the government
created what?
Smokeless zones
Opening: List the 3 environmental Issues in Europe
& tell me the country each issue is located
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19) Name one of the solutions that began to
reduce air pollution in the United Kingdom?
Banning coal fires
Opening: List the 3 environmental Issues in Europe
& tell me the country each issue is located &
what is the government doing about it?
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20) What is the main cause of air pollution in the
United Kingdom today?
Automobile exhaust emissions
Opening: List the 3 environmental Issues in Europe
& tell me the country each issue is located &
what the government is doing about it?
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21)What is Germany’s most challenging problem?
Germany’s most challenging solution to the acid
rain problem would be getting other countries
to stop using fossil fuels.
Opening: List the 3 environmental Issues in Europe
& tell me the country each issue is located
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22) Which country has a mixed market economy that
ranks as the second-largest economy in the European
Union?
United Kingdom
Opening: Every economic system has to answer three
basic questions...what are the 3 questions?
1) What goods & services will be produced?
2) How will goods & services be produced?
3) Who will consume the goods & services?
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23) What country has a mixed economy known as a
social market economy that we are studying in
Europe?
Germany
Opening: Every economic system has to answer three
basic questions...what are the 3 questions?
1) What goods & services will be produced?
2) How will goods & services be produced?
3) Who will consume the goods & services?
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24) Which country has a mixed market economy
that we are studying in Europe?
Russia
Opening: Every economic system has to answer
three basic questions...what are the 3 questions?
1) What goods & services will be produced?
2) How will goods & services be produced?
3) Who will consume the goods & services?
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25) The most common economic system in the world
is what?
Mixed economy
Opening: Every economic system has to answer three
basic questions...what are the 3 questions?
1) What goods & services will be produced?
2) How will goods & services be produced?
3) Who will consume the goods & services?