Test 15, Chapters 10-16, Semester Exam Flashcards
The word that is made form the two Greek words for “People” and “rule” is
democracy
The famous bard of ancient Greece was
Homer
The series of wars that Rome fought against Carthage were the
Punic Wars
The Roman general who “crossed the Rubicon” was
Julius Caesar
The first emperor of Rome was
Augustus Caesar
The most important task performed by the monks was copying and preserving
Scripture
The series of attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks is called the
Crusades
first to translate the Bible into English
John Wycliffe
promised, “I will be good.”
Queen Victoria
began the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
probably the greatest English author
William Shakespeare
invented the printing press
Johann Gutenberg
defeated the Spanish Armada
Queen Elizabeth
founded the modern nursing profession
Florence Nightingale
Which country is known for John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel Tower, and Mont Blanc
France
Which country is known for Leonardo da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Mt. Vesuvius
Italy
Which country is known for Cortes, Valencia oranges, The Tidelands, and matadors
Spain
Which country is known for Johann Sebastian Bach, Adolf Hilter, “Land of the Reformation”, and divided after WW II
Germany
Which country is known for William Tell, neutral republic, landlocked, International Red Cross
Switzerland
Which country is known for tulips, windmills, wooden shoes, dikes, low lands
the Netherlands
Which country is the “Land of the Midnight Sun”, fjords, Oslo
Norway
Which country is known for Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland
Denmark
Which country is the “Land of Fire and Ice”, hot springs, geysers, glaciers, tundra
Iceland
Berlin
Germany
Bern
Switzerland
Helsinki
Finland
Moscow
Russia
Oslo
Norway
Paris
France
Rome
Italy
Vienna
Austria
Warsaw
Poland
Amsterdam
the Netherlands
The mountains that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe
Pyrenees - the Iberian Peninsula is Spain & Portugal. The Pyrenees are between Spain & France.
The narrow waterway separating Europe from Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
The cold, treeless lands north of the Arctic circle
tundra
The largest level region in the world
West Siberian Plain
the world’s deepest freshwater lake
Lake Baikal
One of the waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
Dardanelles
The longest river in Europe
Volga
The highest peak in Europe
Mt. Elbrus
Ivan IV was the first _____ of Russia
Czar
Karl Marx was the founder of
Communism
The first leader of a Communist state was
Lenin
Stalin was famous for the
Great Purge
Khrushchev threatened to “bury” what country
USA
After the Soviet Union fell, the most powerful Russian leader was
Yeltsin
Canberra
Australia
Wellington
New Zealand
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Antarctica’s highest peak
Vinson Massif
the longest coral reef in the world
Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s highest peak
Mt. Kosciusko
Australia’s longest river flowing year-round
Murray
the largest artesian basin in the world
Great Artesian Basin
the highest island peak in the world
Mt. Wilhelm
the migration champion of the world
arctic tern
The first man to ail around the Antarctic Circle
Captain James Cook
The early settlers of New Zealand
Maoris
A famous missionary to the Pacific Islands
John G. Paton
The first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent
Charles Wilkes
The first man to reach the South Pole
Roald Amundsen
The most famous Antarctic explorer
Richard Byrd
The native inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
More languages are spoken in what country than any other country in the world
Papua New Guinea
A place where manufacturing is done
industrial center
An area of underground water
artesian basin
Because Australia is completely below the equator it is often called
the Land Down Under
The 20,000 - 30,000 islands in the Pacific are called
Oceania
The word that means “many islands”
Polynesia
the word that means “small islands”
Micronesia
the part of Oceania with the most people
Melanesia
The Australian Dog Fence was built to keep wild dogs known as _____ away from the sheep
dingoes
Australia is the world’s leading producer of
wool
Australia’s Central Lowlands and Western Plateau are often called the
outback
Because Australia is in the southern Hemisphere, Christmas comes in the
summer
Australia’s most important tree, the _____, is known as a gum tree.
eucalyptus
You will have to label the following on the map of Oceania
Australia, Canberra, Great Dividing Range, Indian Ocean, Melanesia, Mt. Kosciusko, Papua New Guinea, Polynesia, Vinson Massif, Wellington
You will write the letter of the correct country for each capital:
Amsterdam(the Netherlands), Bern(Switzerland), Brussels(Belgium), Copenhagen(Denmark), Madrid(Spain)
You will write the letter of the correct country for each capital:
Hungary(Budapest), Romania(Bucharest), Russia(Moscow), Slovakia(Bratislava), Ukraine(Kiev)
Brussels
Belgium
Copenhagen
Denmark
Madrid
Spain
Budapest
Hungary
Bucharest
Romania
Moscow
Russia
Bratislava
Slovakia
Kiev
Ukraine
