World Geography exam review
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- lagoon
- The center of an atoll is a ______.
- France and Spain
- What two countries are separated by the Pyrenees?
- Southern Hemisphere
- Australia is called the Land Down Under because it is located in the _____.
- Oceania
- Geographers study three major island groups in the Pacific Ocean that they call _______.
- Tae kwon do
- What martial art originated in Korea?
- food source
- Krill is a major _______.
- marsupials
- Kangaroos and koalas are known as ______.
- Allah
- Muslim call God _____.
- scientific purposes
- To date, 43 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty agreeing to use Antarctica only for ______.
- China
- The People's Republic of China is the official name of ______.
- Vatican City
- The pope lives and works in _____.
- frozen tundra
- Forty percent of Russia's land is ____.
- 1st
- How does Russia rank in size among the world's countries?
- communist
- Laos and Vietnam both have what type of goverment?
- Japan is on the ring of fire
- Japan experiences many earthquakes because ______.
- Renaissance
- The Middle Ages ended and the pre-modern period began with the ______.
- Thailand
- What country in Southeast Asia was never a colony of another country?
- an active volcano
- Antarctica's Mount Erebus is ________.
- guilds
- Workers' organizations that controlled industries were called _____.
- wool
- Australia is the world's top producer of _______.
- The Nile River
- The kingdoms of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt grew around the ______.
- Goverment tells people what to do
- What is life like under communist rule, ____.
- government
- In China People's lives are controlled in many ways by the ______.
- Europe and Asia
- Russia is spread across the continents ____,
- mountains, highlands, valleys
- What lies under Antarctica's huge ice cap?
- Constantine 1st
- Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under ______.
- desert
- The word Sahara means _____.
- Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg
- The Benelux countries are ____.
- greek philosopher
- Socrates was a great _____.
- mediterranean sea
- The Nile River begins in east Africa and flows north to the _____.
- France
- Which country produces more food than any other nation in Western Europe?
- potatoes and rye
- What do Poland's framers grow more of than any other European country?
- Muhammad
- The Quran contains revelations made to the prophet _______.
- Myanmar
- This country was once called Burma.
- Easter
- Christians celebrate the day Jesus rose from the dead as _____.
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- The statue of the little mermaid is a famous attraction in _____.
- the pharoah
- The center of Egyptian life was _____.
- is very limited
- Because of mountains, farmland in Japan _____.
- parliamentary democracy
- The government of New Zealand is a _______.
- Wales and North Ireland
- The four regions of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, _____.
- constitutional monarchy
- Japan's form of government is _____.