European Quiz: weeks 10,11,12,13 – Flashcards
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What is the name for the area comprised of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland?
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Scandinavia
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What country lays west of the nation whose capital is Berlin and north of the nation whose capital is Brussels?
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Netherlands
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What is the region above the Arctic Circle that extends over northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia?
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Lapland
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What city is the site of international courts of arbitration and justice?
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The Hague
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What part of Germany has a higher elevation: the northern or southern?
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Southern
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What sea forms a border of Sweden?
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Baltic Sea
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What countries comprise the British Isles?
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United Kingdom and Ireland
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What principalities form the United Kingdom?
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Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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What is the capital of the country called the "breadbasket of Europe"?
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Kiev-(Ukraine)
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What are two former names for St. Petersburg, Russia?
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Petrograd and Leningrad
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What country was NOT part of the former Soviet Union: Belarus, Ukraine, or Romania?
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Romania
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Which country has mountains: Latvia, Belarus, or Bulgaria?
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Bulgaria
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What mountain ranges and bodies of water form the boundary between Europe and Asia?
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Ural mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Caucasus mountains.
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Through what three countries lie the Carpathian Mountains?
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Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania
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What is the capital of the Scandinavian nation whose eastern border is Russia?
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Helsinki--Finland
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Moldova is landlocked between what two countries?
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Ukraine and Romania
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What capital is on the Vistula River?
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Warsaw, Poland
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In what direction would you be going if you traveled from Bucharest, Romania to the Carpathian Mountains?
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North
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What was NOT once a part of Yugoslavia: Macedonia, Slovenia, and Slovakia?
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Slovakia
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What are the capitals of the two countries that were once the nation of Czechoslovakia?
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Prague, Czech Republic, Bratislava, Solvakia
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What countries are on the eastern boundary of the Adriatic Sea?
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Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania
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Sarajevo is the capital of what country?
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Bosnia -Herzegovina
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What country has a Mediterranean climate of short rainy winters and long dry summers: Hungary or Albania?
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Albania
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Name three capital cities located on tributaries of the Danube River?
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Ljubljana,Slovenia, Sofia, Bulgaria, Zagre, Croatia.
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Where is Europe's grand canyon, considered one of the natural wonders of Europe located?
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Southeastern France
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What is the capital of the nation with coastlines on the Aegean Sea on the east and the Ionian Sea on the west?
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Athens, Greece
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The smallest country in Europe has an area of only 2 square miles and is surrounded entirely by the city of Rome, Italy; what is that country?
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Vatican City
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If you were at 40*N, 5*E would you be walking or swimming?
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Swimming
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The Alps forms the border with Italy and what other countries?
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France, Switzerland,Austria
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What country, together with Spain forms a peninsula with the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the Mediterranean Sea on the east?
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Portugal
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What tiny island is the only European country located entirely in the Mediterranean Sea?
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Malta
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What tiny country located in the Italian peninsula, is the smallest republic in the world and claims to be the oldest state/nation in Europe?
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San Marino
