Geography Exam
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- black
- both bulgaria and romania have coastlines on the _____ sea
- english channel
- _____ _____ is the body of water that seperates france from england
- arctic ocean
- the body of water bordering russia to the north is the ____ ____
- denmark
- for more than 400 years norway was ruled by what country?
- sunny summers and mild winters
- italys mediterranean climate means that most of italy has what type of weather? ____ ____ and ___ ____
- mediterranean sea
- the body of water that lies along the southeast coast of france is the _____ _____
- coal mining
- the most important industry in poland is ______ _____
- irrigation
- the volga river provides water to generate electricity and for _____
- fishing rights in the atlantic
- iceland and the UK argued over _____ _____ ____ ____ ______
- flemings
- what do they call the dutch speaking people of belgium?
- norway, sweden, finland, denmark, iceland
- what countries are located on the scandinavian peninsula?
- shipping fleets
- greece has always depended on the sea and today has one of the worlds largest _____ _____
- kaliningrad
- russias only baltic port that remains ice free year round is _____
- berlin
- name the city in germnay that was divided after WWII
- arctic circle
- iceland is a small island just south of the _____ _____
- muslim
- most of the people of albania are what religion?
- latin
- the romanian language comes from _____
- natural resources
- oil and natural gas are two of russias most important _____ ____
- walloons
- the french speaking people of belgium are called _____
- huge forests
- most of finalnds wealth comes from ____ _____
- volga
- the longest river in europe is _____
- ukraine
- the dnieper river is one of about 23,000 rivers that flow in _____
- russians
- after 50 years of rule by the soviet union, latvias and estonies populations include 30 percent _____
- france
- what country is the largest food producer in western europe?
- black
- the tree covered area in germany- ____ forest
- plain of attica
- about one-third of the greek population lives on the ____ _____ _____
- norway
- stave chruches, some of the worlds oldest buildings, can be found in _____
- caucasus
- russias tallest mountain is part of the _____ mountains
- protestant
- which faith does most of the scandinavian countries follow?
- germany
- what country was divided into two parts after WWII
- ancient civilization
- One reason greece is a center for tourism is that it is the home of an _____ _____
- greece
- the plain of attica and peloponnesus are areas of mainland ______
- swedish
- the official language of sweden is ______
- otto von bismarck
- the leader that united germanys territories into a single country was ______ ____ ____
- norway
- what country is not part of the european union?
- alps
- italy produces hydroelectric power in the _____
- shipbuilding center
- gdansk, a city on the baltic sea, is polands _____ ____
- roman catholic
- most of the people of spain practice what faith? _____ _____
- south
- most of finlands people live in cities in what part of the country?
- longest river
- the volga is russias _____ _____
- two-thirds
- a plateau on the iberian peninsula covers _____ ____ of the land
- north atlantic current
- the UK is as far north as canada. it has a milder climate than canada because of the _____ ______ _____
- dictatorship
- from the 1930s to the 1970s, both spain and portugal were ruled by what type of government?
- north sea
- from what body of water has the netherlands reclaimed large areas of land?
- moors
- a treeless, windy highland aea that has damp ground is _____
- nera
- st.petersburg is located near the gulf of finland and the _____ river
- romans
- most of romanias people are descended from the ______
- natural resources
- swedens wealth is mainly the result of ____ _____
- crete
- the largest of the greek islands is _____
- different cultural regions
- castile, catalonia, galicia, and andalusia are spains _____ _____ ____
- 776 BC
- the first olympic games took place in greece in ______
- mt. elbrus
- the highest mountain on the continent of europe is _______
- fishing
- icelands economy is based mainly upon _____
- fruits and vegetables
- because of its climate, finland must import most of its ____ and ____
- sweden
- what country did King Ustav Vasa rule?
- roman catholic
- lithuania follows what faith?
- poland
- through what country in eastern europe does the vistula river flow then empty into the baltic sea?
- huge forests
- most of finlands wealth comes from _____ _____
- mittleland
- the swiss cities of bern and zurich are located in ______
- natural resources
- swedens wealth is mainly the result of ____ _____
- moldova
- what country is not a yugoslav republic?
- fishing
- icelands economy is based largly on ____
- balkan
- croatia, bosnia, and herzegovina are located on what peninsula?
- rocky islands
- a geographic feature of sweden are skerries, which are ____ ____
- tundra
- the vast rolling treeless plain north of the arctic circle is _____
- salt
- the caspian sea, the worlds largest inland body of water is ____ water
- gulf of bothnia
- what body of water lies between sweden and finland?
- permafrost
- forty percent of russias land is ____
- taiga
- huge, subarctic evergreen forests are known as the ____
- cyrillic
- the belarusian language is written using the _____ alphabet
- remained nutral
- during the two world wars, switzerland did what?
- polders
- in the netherlands, drained lands that have rich farming soil are called _____
- tourists
- southern italy is often visited by _____
- agriculture and manufacturing
- france has a prosperous economy based on _______ and _______
- caucusus mountains
- southwestern russian and southwest asia are seperated by the _____ _____
- seine river
- the river that flows through paris, the capital of france is the ____ _____
- dairy cattle, sugar beets, crops
- although mountains cover 75 percent of austria, the country raises _____, ______, and other ______
- parliaments and monarchs
- belgium, the netherlands, and luxembourg are democracies with _______ and ______
- serbia and montenegro
- what two regions form yugoslavia today? _____ and _____
- Po River
- fertile soil and year round rain are found in which part of Italy? ____ ____ Valley
- low and flat
- in the three benelux countires, the land area is ____ and ______
- copenhagen
- the capital of denmark is -____
- flat plateau
- the terrian of finland is mostly a ____ ____
- moscow
- russias cultural and political canter is _____
- free market economy
- after communism collapsed in the early 1900s, the countries of eastern europe set up ____ _____ ____
- adriatic
- the formor yugoslav republics and albania have coastlines on the ______ sea
- spainards
- the catillian dialect is today the language spoke by most _______
- greenland
- denmark rules the gigantic island of ______
- celts
- among the earliest people to live in the british isles were the _____
- manufacturing and service
- the main economic activity in portugal is _____ and _____
- largest
- how does russia rank in sze among the world countries?
- hamburg
- what is germanys largest port city?
- norway
- what country is not part of the european union?
- hungary
- many people spend their vacations at lake balaton located in ______
- mild, hot
- most of spain and portugal have a mediterranean climate that has _____ winters and ____ summers