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5.  What river runs through Germany?  (A) Rhine  (B) Danube  (C) Volga  (D) Mississippi 1 POINT The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

6.  The plain that extends from France to Russia, it ranges from 50 to 1,500 miles wide  (A) Georgia  (B) European  ( C) Iberian  (D) Scandinavian 2 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

7.  What is the name of the river located in southeastern Europe, and empties into the Black Sea?  (A) Rhine  (B) Danube  (C) Volga  (D) Mississippi 3 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

8.  What is the name of the physical feature that forms a border between the continents of Europe and Asia?  (A) Scandinavian Mountains  (B) ALPS Mountains  (C) Pyrenees Mountains  (D) Ural Mountains 4 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

9.  What body of water supports trade and serves as a buffer between Europe and Africa?  (A) Black Sea  (B) Caspian Sea  (C) Mediterranean  Sea  (D) Aegean Sea 5 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

10. What makes the United kingdom ideal for international banking?  (A) airports  (B) climate  (C) location  (D) natural resources 6 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

11. What condition helped the United Kingdom become a leader of world trade?  (A) It is an island with mild climate located near many other countries  (B) Two percent of the people are farmers, and there is a lot of arable land  (C) It is home to the world’s busiest airport and has seven other large airports  (D) Urban areas are heavily populated, most jobs are found in the urban areas. 7 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

12.  What two major rivers does the European Plain contain?  (A) Volga and Nile  (B) Rhine and Mississippi  (C) Danube and Rhine  (D) Amazon and Danube 8 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

13.  What mountains are between Spain and France (the Iberian Peninsula)?  (A) Mount Everest  (B) Ural Mountains  (C) Appalachian Mountains  (D) Pyrenees Mountains 9 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

14. The water that separates the United Kingdom form mainland Europe.  (A) English Channel  (B) Mediterranean Sea  (C) Panama Canal  (D) Suez Canal 10 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

15. What are the main causes of acid rain??  (A) coal burning factories and automobile emissions  (B) farms and forests  (C) water power and electricity  (D) solar power and wind power turbines blowing the poison gas 11 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

16. Which solution to Germany’s acid rain problem would be the most challenging?  (A) getting other countries to stop using fossil fuels  (B) reducing automobile emissions  (C) increasing the use of wind and solar power  (D) changing from coal-burning power plants to water-powered ones 12 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

17. What was created after the Great Smog of 1952?  (A) a ban on coal fires  (B) an industrial revolution  (C) London smokeless zones  (D) King Edward’s ban on coal fires 13 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask MartinAsk ClassEliminate 2

18. Which was an effect on the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl?  (A) people an animals did not get sick  (B) drinking water was unsafe for months  (C) forest got healthier than they had been  (D) all nuclear power plants in the world were closed 14 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

19. Which are examples of Romance languages?  (A) French, Italian and Spanish  (B) English, German, and Italian  (C) Russian, Polish and French  (D) Italian, French, and German 15 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

20. In which form of government would the fewest number of people be involved in making the rule of law?  (A) democracy  (B) oligarchy  (C) traditional  (D) autocracy 16 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

21. How do ports of the United Kingdom and Russia differ?  (A) The ports of the UK are open year round, and Russia’s are not  (B) Russia has nor port cities, while the UK is an island country with many  (C) There is no difference in the year-round use of ports in the UK and Russia  (D) The ports of the UK are influenced by mild climate, but Russia’s ports are all subtropical 17 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

22. What has helped Italian merchants become successful traders?  (A) the location of the Alps, which are a defense against other countries  (B) the location on the Mediterranean Sea with access to Africa, Asia, and Europe  (C) the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, which are not far from the west coast of Italy  (D) the warm air from the Sahara Desert, creates warm, dry summer for most of Italy 18 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

23. How is power distributed in a unitary government?  (A) No one group or person has control of the government  (B) smaller units of government, like counties control the central government  (C) a central government assigns power and duties to smaller units of government within a country  (D) the central government does not have much power over the smaller units of government in the country 19 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

24. What environmental disaster occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine?  (A) acid rain caused by engine exhaust  (B) “the great smoke” from coal burning factories  (C) a nuclear reactor explosion  (D) the death of forests due to water pollution from mining 20 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

25. In the past, The Russian language often used the  (A) Roman alphabet  (B) German alphabet  (C) English alphabet  (D) Cyrillic alphabet 21 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

26. In which type of economy do individuals have the most freedom?  (A) traditional  (B) mixed  (C) market  (D) command 22 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

27. Constitutional monarchy Parliamentary democracy Unitary government  (A) Germany  (B) Great Britain  (C) Italy  (D) Russia 23 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2 Which country is being described?

28. What part of the Treaty of Versailles was most damaging to the German economy after World War II?  (A) German lost its colonies  (B) the German emperor was to be put on trial  (C) Germany had to pay the Allies large sums of money  (D) Germans were not allowed to have a large army and navy 24 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

29. Which country was the leader of the Easter Bloc?  (A) Germany  (B) Soviet Union  (C) United Kingdom  (D) United States 25 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

30. Why is it important for a country to invest in human capital?  (A) it needs money to pay its workers  (B) workers enjoy getting extra training and job opportunities  (C) businesses cannot do all the training needed to be successful  (D) a country’s economy is more successful when workers have a good education 26 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

31. Why would a company spend money to buy new machines for its factories rather than continue to use older machines that were still working?  (A) older machines cannot be run well by young workers  (B) older machines do not produce as much pollution as newer ones  (C) new machines might help the company produce more goods at a lower price  (D) new machines would cost the company a lot of money but would provide jobs for workers 27 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

32. What is a reason the European Union was created?  (A ) to isolate Russia and make it more difficult for it to trade  (B) to practice reaching consensus European countries  (C) to promote the French franc as a common currency  (D ) to make Europe more competitive in world markets and to solve problems 27 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

33. Which is an example of investing in physical capital?  (A) constructing a new factory  (B) keeping old delivery trucks  (C) training workers to do their jobs better  (D) keeping old computers in order to save money 28 POINTS The Correct Answer is: A Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

34. What feature is near the “7” on the map?  (A) Pyrenees Mountains  (B) Rhine River  ( C) Scandinavian Peninsula  (D) Ural Mountains 29 POINTS The Correct Answer is: D Final Answer? Ask Taylor Ask Class Eliminate 2 7

35. What feature is near the “2” on the map?  (A) English Channel  (B) European Plain  ( C) Iberian Peninsula  (D) The Alps Mountains 29 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask Taylor Ask Class Eliminate 2 2

36. What marks the English Channel?  (A) 1  (B) 3  ( C) 5  (D) 7 29 POINTS The Correct Answer is: C Final Answer? Ask Taylor Ask Class Eliminate 2 7 5 1 4 3 6 2

37. Which pairing of sacred text and religion is correct?  (A) Christianity - Talmud  (B) Judaism - Torah  (C) Muslim – Old Testament  (D) Roman Catholic - Koran 30 POINTS The Correct Answer is: B Final Answer? Ask TaylorAsk ClassEliminate 2

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