World Geo-Western Europe
Info. on Western Europ
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What is the population of the United Kingdom |
60,776,238 |
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What is the climate of the UN? |
Marine West Coast |
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What areas consist of Great Britian |
England-Scotland -Wales |
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What areas consist of the United Kingdom? |
England-Scotland-Wales-Norhtern Ireland |
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Describe the climate of the UN. |
-Has quite cool summers |
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What are England's 3 Physical Characteristics? |
Highlands, Midlands and Lowlands |
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Where is one of the greatest commercial and shipping cities in the world? |
LONDON-it is located on the Thames River where ships can sail directly up to the port of London |
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How is Britain's industry's challenged? |
-Most of coal supply was used up during the industrial revolution. They now use oil and gas found beneath the North Sea floor |
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When did the port of London grow rapidly? |
1500 |
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Describe the physical characteristics of Highlands |
A band of hills running the length of England's western coast; the land is difficult to farm. |
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Describe the physical characteristics of Midlands. |
Coal,factory towns;heavy industrial development, croweded area |
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Describe the Lowlands. |
Rolling lowlands; land slopes gently toward the English Channel; low elevation, fertile land |
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How does the Atlantic Ocean relate to economy of England |
It is one of the major sea routes in the world |
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How does the Thames River relate to economy of England? |
Ships are able to come all the way into London because of the wide, flooded valley |
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How does Pennine Chain effect the economy of England? |
Major coal fields are located along th edge of the Pennine range. |
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How does the Lowlands effect the economy of England? |
It is very fertile and has some of the most productive farms. |
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How does the Midlands relate to England's economy? |
They have factory towns there. |
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What's the currency of: |
1.Euro |
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How does the dollar compare to UK's currency? |
One Pound is equal to almost 2 dollars. |
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Describe England's government. |
-Constitutional Monarchy |
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Describe Scotland's Highlands. |
Highlands-large, high plateaus with man lakes called "lochs" |
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Describe Scotland's Central Lowlands. |
75% of pop. live here. |
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Describe Scotland's Sountern Uplands. |
-sheep raising |
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Describe Wales. |
-a penninsula of UK |
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What's the fastest way to get from England to France? |
Chunnel |
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What is the Celtic language of Ireland? |
Gaelic |
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What are the Reformers called that wanted to reform the Catholic church? |
Protestants |
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The Irish remained ____ while the English became___ |
Catholic |
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How do we see cultural divergence in Irelands conflict? |
The two cultures worked against one another and do not want the other to influence their own culture. ex:Catholics of Ireland and Protestants of England |
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During the Potato famine in Ireland, what happened to further inflame anti-British feelings against English. |
Ablight hit Ireland and killed the potato crop. Many starved and many moved to US. The British gave little aid to Ireland, so they feel. |
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What part of the population of Northern Ireland are Protestant? |
More than half. |
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What religion is dominate in Ireland? |
mostly Catholic |
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Why is Norway known as the land of the Midnight Sun? |
the sun never really sets for several weeks in midsummer |
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How does the physical geography of Finland affect its economy? |
It is cut off from the Atlantic Ocean sea route. Ships must entrer through narrow waterway around Denmark and Sweden. |
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How does the physical geography of Sweden affect its economy |
-Sweden is cut off from the Atlantic sea routes. |
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In what way does the physical geo. of Norway affect its economy? |
It has very jagged coastlines |
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Describe how the physical geo. of Denmark affects the economy? |
Its land is at low elevation |
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How does the physical geo of Iceland affect its economy? |
It has access to the Atlantic Ocean |
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How does the location of Nordic nations unite them? |
They are all located near the Arctic Circle:northern latitudes |
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How does the landforms unite the Nordic nations? |
all have jagged coastlines;fjords |
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Cimate unites the Nordic nations by what? |
*Long winters, |
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What are the cultural ties of History that unite the Nordic nations? |
The Vikings - looting and plundering other countries |
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How are the Nordic Nations governments uniting them? |
All are Democricies; politically neutral |
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What religion unites the Nordic Nations? |
Luthern church |
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How does the language of Nordic Nations unite them? |
They all have common language roots (except Finland) |
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Compare the Nordic Nations economy? |
Mixed economies |
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Number events in order to coincide with Ireland's history. |
1.Celtic tribes settle in 300 BC |
