Quiz chap 1, 2, 3, 4

Question 1

What is the eastern limit of Europe?

Answer 1

The urals mountains in Russia, the Caspians sea, the caucasus mountains, the black sea, the bosporus strait, the sea of marmara, and the dardanelles strait

Question 2

What makes europes climate milder?

Answer 2

Gulf stream

Question 3

What explains why there are nice cities in europe at places where there are little civilisation in quebec? What are examples?

Answer 3

The cold labrador current makes it colder than it should normally be but th egulf stream warms th ecountires of Europe. ex. edingburgh in scotland is at the same latitude as kuujjuarapik on the hudson bay, paris and london are further north then Quebec and yet have the same climate

Question 4

Describe the mediterranean climate.

Answer 4

It is a mild and rainy climate in winter and hot and dry during summer

Question 5

Why does europe hold 15 times the population of Canada on 50% of its land?

Answer 5

Because of its milder climate

Question 6

What is the popualtion density in Europe union compared to Canada

Answer 6

Europian union: 120 inhabitants per km2
Canada: 4 inhabitants per km2

Question 7

Which contry was the last to join the european union?

Answer 7

Croatia

Question 8

Which country left the european union and how many countries are now in the european union?

Answer 8

United kingdom left there are now 27 countries

Question 9

How many habitants does the european union represent?

Answer 9

450M

Question 10

Including the united kingdom which countries are not part of the European union?

Answer 10

Norway, Iceland, and switzerland

Question 11

How many of the european countries are using euro?

Answer 11

20

Question 12

What is the single international travel and immigration area which eliminates the internal border?

Answer 12

Shengen area

Question 13

How many states are found in the shengen area including which states?

Answer 13

Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, liechtenstein

Question 14

What is impressive about Europe?

Answer 14

They have an impressive physical and cultural diversity with more than 200 different language spoken

Question 15

Describe the british isles

Answer 15

They are made up of two main Island: Ireland and great britain, two countries which are Republic of Ireland, and the united kingdom. The united kingdom is made up of four units, Engalnd, Wlaes, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Question 16

What small river is found in europe?

Answer 16

Rhine river

Question 17

What is the most important transportation axis of europe?

Answer 17

Rhine river

Question 18

Which river passes through four national capitals in Europe and what four capitals?

Answer 18

The danube river
Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, and Belgrade

Question 19

True or False: Europe has an exceptionaly high ratio of coast to land area making them accessible for maritime trade

Answer 19

true

Question 20

Which part of Europe is the most productive farming ?

Answer 20

Northern European plain

Question 21

True or false, the northern european plain was the site of the bloodiest military battles during the two world wars?

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Which country of Europe has the most population?

Answer 22

Germany (85M)

Question 23

What countries of Europe have cities ranging from 59-69M inhabitants?

Answer 23

United Kingdom, France and Italy

Question 24

True or Flase, Russia is the second largest country on the planet?

Answer 24

False, it is the largest

Question 25

What is the land superficie of Russia?

Answer 25

17M km2

Question 26

What is the population of Russia and from those, what percentage are non-russian?

Answer 26

146M inhabitants, 20% are non-russian

Question 27

Describe the cultural diversity in Russia.

Answer 27

There are 280 nations and more than 110 official languages

Question 28

When did communism collapse in Europe?

Answer 28

in 1991, and the Soviet Union then split in 15 independant countries

Question 29

Describe the continental climate in Russia

Answer 29

It is the most common climate with wide variation between summer and winter, and between night and day temeperatures as well. The winter is very cold, dry, and often sunny with a few hours of day light

Question 30

What are the three largest cities found in Russia?

Answer 30

Moscow (17M) St. Petersberg (5M) Kiev (3M)

Question 31

Describe the political tension between Ukraine and Russia.

Answer 31

Russia invaded the Crimea peninsula on the Black Sea, and supported pro-russians in taking control of the eastern part of the country. Recently Russia has been trying to take control of eastern Ukraine, more precisely the donbas region

Question 32

What is siberia?

Answer 32

Siberia is used to design the the Asian part of Russia, it is all of the land east of the urals mountains, 40M russians live in that land of taiga, swamps, mountains, and cold climate. It has a very low population density with about only 28% of russia's population on 77% of its land.

Question 33

What is Russia's geostrategic weakness?

Answer 33

Its limited access to open sea all year round

Question 34

What is the deepest and largest (for water content) lake in the world?

Answer 34

Lake baikal (1642m), it contains more fresh water than five great Lands combined

Question 35

Describe the Stans

Answer 35

kazakhstan, uzbekistan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, and kyrgystan. It is a country of steppes, deserts, and mountains, predominantly muslim religion

Question 36

What is the most important geological disaster on the planet?

Answer 36

the shrinking of the Aral sea, it has lost 90% of its original volume of water

Question 37

what are the heights of mont sainte-anne, Mt Robson, Mt Blanc, Mt Everest

Answer 37

800m 3950m 4800m 8850m

Question 38

What are the popualtion of Quebec city urban agglomeration Montreal urban agglomeration Quebec province Canada United kingdom France USA

Answer 38

851 000 4.3M 9.1M 41M 69M 66M 336M

Question 39

What is the population density of Canada, France, USA

Answer 39

4/km2 38/km2 122/km2

Question 40

What is the precipitation of Quebec city?

Answer 40

1200mm