WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY EXAM 2
TEST PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● How does water moderate climate?
Answer: Moderate temperatures and ample moisture
●● In the summer, what moves north into the Mediterranean region?
Answer: the subtropical high pressure, causing sinking air
●● Is the Mediterranean summer wet or dry?
Answer: Dry
●● What does the Alpine System look like?
Answer: young mountains with minerals and rich soils
●● What are the main economies in the Alpine System region?
Answer: Mining, hardy agriculture and tourism
●● What does the Northwestern Uplands look like?
Answer: Landscapes caved by glaciers with tundra and forests
,●● What are the main activities in the Northwestern Uplands?
Answer: pastoralism and hardy agriculture
●● What do the Central Plateaus look like?
Answer: Older mountains and plateaus with forests and agriculture
depending on the climate
●● What is the main activity in the Central Plateaus?
Answer: Coal fields
●● What do the North European Lowlands look like?
Answer: Low, flat topography with ample moisture
●● What are the main activities in the North European Lowlands?
Answer: Coal, oil and natural gas
●● Which region of Europe is most densely populated?
Answer: North European Lowlands
●● Where is the air pollution is particular heavy?
Answer: North European Lowlands
, ●● Why is the air pollution particularly heavy in the North European
Lowlands?
Answer: Heavy industry and large populations
●● What is a problem devastating the crop lands?
Answer: Acid rain
●● What three empires had an enormous influence on European culture,
politics and economy?
Answer: Ottoman, Greek and Roman
●● What evolved as the Roman Empire declined?
Answer: Feudal systems
●● Who makes up most of the population in the feudal system?
Answer: peasants
●● What rose in Europe's trade route cities?
Answer: Merchant capitalism
●● What spread because of merchant capitalism?
Answer: new ideas, technologies and institutions
TEST PAPER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND
ACCURATE RESPONSES
●● How does water moderate climate?
Answer: Moderate temperatures and ample moisture
●● In the summer, what moves north into the Mediterranean region?
Answer: the subtropical high pressure, causing sinking air
●● Is the Mediterranean summer wet or dry?
Answer: Dry
●● What does the Alpine System look like?
Answer: young mountains with minerals and rich soils
●● What are the main economies in the Alpine System region?
Answer: Mining, hardy agriculture and tourism
●● What does the Northwestern Uplands look like?
Answer: Landscapes caved by glaciers with tundra and forests
,●● What are the main activities in the Northwestern Uplands?
Answer: pastoralism and hardy agriculture
●● What do the Central Plateaus look like?
Answer: Older mountains and plateaus with forests and agriculture
depending on the climate
●● What is the main activity in the Central Plateaus?
Answer: Coal fields
●● What do the North European Lowlands look like?
Answer: Low, flat topography with ample moisture
●● What are the main activities in the North European Lowlands?
Answer: Coal, oil and natural gas
●● Which region of Europe is most densely populated?
Answer: North European Lowlands
●● Where is the air pollution is particular heavy?
Answer: North European Lowlands
, ●● Why is the air pollution particularly heavy in the North European
Lowlands?
Answer: Heavy industry and large populations
●● What is a problem devastating the crop lands?
Answer: Acid rain
●● What three empires had an enormous influence on European culture,
politics and economy?
Answer: Ottoman, Greek and Roman
●● What evolved as the Roman Empire declined?
Answer: Feudal systems
●● Who makes up most of the population in the feudal system?
Answer: peasants
●● What rose in Europe's trade route cities?
Answer: Merchant capitalism
●● What spread because of merchant capitalism?
Answer: new ideas, technologies and institutions
