Unit II TEST Review

1) Why can Europe be called a peninsula of peninsulas?
Europe is a Peninsula of peninsula because it is one giant peninsula made up of many smaller ones.


2) Where does the Danube flow?
The Danube flows through the heart of Europe from west to east.


3) What is the most important plain in Europe?
Northern European Plain


4) What resources does Europe have in abundance?
Coal and Iron, and ore.


5) Why do the Irish burn peat?

The Irish burn peat because they lack energy resources.


6) How are the landforms of Europe both an advantage and disadvantage?
The landforms of Europe are the Alps and they provide protection from invaders and block winds which makes parts of Europe warmer like Italy and Greece. A disadvantage is that they prevent travel and isolate people from each other.


7) What is the North Atlantic Drift?
A current of warm water from tropics that flows near the west coast of Europe.


8) What parts of Europe benefit from the Mediterranean climate?

Spain, France, Italy, and the Balkan Peninsula


9) Why do trees not grow in upper Scandinavia?
Trees do not grow because of the tundra climate and layer of permafrost on the ground


10) What percentage of the Netherlands was once under the sea?

More than 40%


11) Why did Venice grow?
Invaders took shelter there and began to build the foundations of the city.


12) What problems face Venice today?
Venice is sinking because the buildings are too heavy for it and there is severe pollution in the canals.


13) What actions have led to deforestation in Europe?

More trees being cut down for more fuel, Acid Rain, and increase in building factories. More wood needed to help support Venice.


14) Why was Ancient Greece important?
Ancient Greece had the first democracy.


15) What are some of Rome's cultural legacies?
Rome gave us religion and many languages such as Latin, which influences Spanish, French, etc. They also had the ideas of government.


16) What were the crusades?

they were a series of wars to try and reclaim the holy land from the Muslims.


17) How has Mediterranean Europe's economy changed since WWII.

Its economy switched from agriculture to industry during the Industrial Revolution.


18) Why are France and Germany the dominant countries of Western Europe?
There was an abundance coal and iron that lead to early industrialization.


19) How did language differences develop in Western Europe?
Each nation had different foreign rulers all the time, so the languages of areas were constantly changing and moving.


20) Why was the Berlin Wall built? When did it come down?
The Berlin Wall was built to separate the Communist and non-Communist Germany. It came down in 1989.


21) List the four sub-region of Europe. Be able to list the countries in each sub-region.
Mediterranean- Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Italy, Greece

Eastern- Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia

Western- France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria,

Northern Europe- Ireland, Iceland, UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland


22) What is the history of Northern Europe?The vikings raided various places in Europe. Then William the COnqueror conquered England which helped start the British Empire.

23) What country in Northern Europe chose not to join the EU?
Norway


24) Where did the industrial revolution start?
Great Britain


25) Why has there been turmoil in Eastern Europe?
There is cultural tension between ethnic groups.


26) What problems existed in the Eastern European economy under Communist rule?
There was outdated technology, people didn't want to trade with them, there was lack of resources, and 

27) How did the Reformation create new cultural divisions?

People split from the Catholic church and Protestants made their own religion and they still fought with the catholics because they couldn't agree on anything.