Geography

Question 1

What is France referred to?

Answer 1

L’Hexagone

Question 2

Is France the largest country in Western Europe?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

What borders France to the West?

Answer 3

Atlantic Ocean

Question 4

What separates France from the UK to the North?

Answer 4

English Channel (La Manche)

Question 5

What divides France and Italy?

Answer 5

Maritime Alps

Question 6

What separates France from Switzerland?

Answer 6

The Alps and The Jura Mountains

Question 7

What lies to the South of France?

Answer 7

Med Sea

Question 8

What forms the barrier between France and Iberian Peninsula?

Answer 8

Pyrenees

Question 9

What is the most mountainous island in the Med?
Where does it lie?

Answer 9

Corsica
Southeast mainland France

Question 10

What abuts France in the Northeastern section of the hexagon?

Answer 10

Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium

Question 11

What is the hexagon composed of?

Answer 11

2 massifs, 2 basins, 1 long rift system

Question 12

What is a Massif?

Answer 12

Landform. Areas of bedrock that are more resistant to erosion

Question 13

What is Massif Central?

Answer 13

South Central portion of country (high limestone plateaus)

Question 14

What is Massif Armorican?

Answer 14

Large portion of Northwest France (Brittany, West Normandy, Lower Loire)

Question 15

What is Paris Basin?

Answer 15

Geologic depression that corresponds to the drainage basin of the Seine River

Question 16

What is Aquitaine Basin?

Answer 16

Basin formed during marine incursions (Triangular)

Question 17

What is a rift valley?

Answer 17

Bedrock that has dropped down between paired geological faults.
AKA… Graben German for “Ditch”

Question 18

Best spot for ideal vineyard land?

Answer 18

Mid slope

Question 19

Rivers that flow into a body of water?

Answer 19

Fleuves

Question 20

Rivers that flow into other rivers?

Answer 20

Rivieres

Question 21

What are the 5 major French Fleuves?

Answer 21

Loire, Seine, Garonne, Rhone, Dordogne

Question 22

What is the longest river in France?

Answer 22

Loire (Flows North)

Question 23

What does the Siene cut through?

Answer 23

Champagne and Paris

Question 24

Largest estuary in Europe?

Answer 24

Gironde

Question 25

What is left bank known for?

Answer 25

Cab Sauv (Lower sugar levels and vineyards face North)

Question 26

What is right bank known for?

Answer 26

Merlot (Face South)

Question 27

What river divides the right bank appellations of Bordeaux from Entre-deux-Mers?

Answer 27

Dordogne River

Question 28

Vineyards flanking rivers are warmer than vineyards at equivalent…What is the exception?

Answer 28

Serein River in Chablis?

Question 29

Oceanic Climate/Maritime?

Answer 29

Temperate summers, cool winters
Daily narrow diurnal temperature swings

Question 30

Med Climate?

Answer 30

Hot/dry summers, cool winters
Only 2 seasons
(Provence, Southern Rhone, Languedoc, Roussillon)

Question 31

Continental Climate?

Answer 31

Warm summers/cold winters
heat spikes/winter freezes
More rain when it’s warm
(Bourgogne, Alsace, Central Loire)

Question 32

Best temperature for photosynthesis?

Answer 32

20-30 Celsius

No photosynthesis under 10 or over 35 Celsius

Question 33

What is the Mistral

Answer 33

North wind atop the North sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Chases away clouds, dust, disease producing humidity.
Relieves heat by dropping temperature

Question 34

What are the Tramontane and Cers Winds?

Answer 34

North winds that are powerful and blow through Toulouse-Carcassonne

Question 35

What 2 winds only impact Rousillon?

Answer 35

Hot, humid Vent d’espagne
Cold, dry Canigounenc

Question 36

in 1956 what happened after the “Great Freeze”?

Answer 36

Dead whites were replanted with reds and Malbec was replaced by Merlot