Wednesday 18 February 2015

Review Questions for Unit TEST

1) Why can Europe be called a peninsula of peninsulas?
2) Where does the Danube flow?
3) What is the most important plain in Europe?
4) What resources does Europe have in abundance?
5) Why do the Irish burn peat?
6) How are the landforms of Europe both an advantage and disadvantage?
7) What is the North Atlantic Drift?
8) What parts of Europe benefit from the Mediterranean climate?
9) Why do trees not grow in upper Scandinavia?
10) What percentage of the Netherlands was once under the sea?
11) Why did Venice grow?
12) What problems face Venice today?
13) What actions have led to deforestation in Europe?
14) Why was Ancient Greece important?
15) What are some of Rome's cultural legacies?
16) What were the crusades?
17) How has Mediterranean Europe's economy changed since WWII.
18) Why are France and Germany the dominant countries of Western Europe?
19) How did language differences develop in Western Europe?
20) Why was the Berlin Wall built?  When did it come down?
21) List the four sub-region of Europe.  Be able to list the countries in each sub-region.
22) What is the history of Northern Europe?
23)  What country in Northern Europe chose not to join the EU?
24) Where did the industrial revolution start?
25) Why has there been turmoil in Eastern Europe?
26) What problems existed in the Eastern European economy under Communist rule?
27) How did the Reformation create new cultural divisions?

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