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Test 15
Chapters 10-16
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History
5th Grade
12/10/2012

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"Land of Fire and Ice," hot springs, geysers, glaciers, tundra
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Iceland
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"Land of the Midnight Sun," fjords, Oslo
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Norway
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A famous missionary to the Pacific Islands
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John G. Paton
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A place where manufacturing is done
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industrial center
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An area of underground water
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artesian basin
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Antarctica's highest peak
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Vinson Massif
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Australia is completely below the equator so it is often called
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the Land Down Under
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Australia's Central Lowlands and Western Plateau
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outback
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Australia's capital
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Canberra
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Australia's highest peak
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Mt. Kosciusko
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Australia's longest river flowing year-round
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Murray
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Australia's most important tree
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eucalyptus
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Began the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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Built to keep dingoes away from the sheep
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the Australian Dog Fence
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Capital of Austria
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Vienna
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Capital of Finland
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Helsinki
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Capital of Germany
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Berlin
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Capital of Italy
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Rome
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Capital of Norway
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Oslo
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Capital of Poland
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Warsaw
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Capital of Russia
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Moscow
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Capital of Switzerland
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Bern
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Christmas comes in the summer in Australia because it is in
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the Southern Hemisphere
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Cortes, Valencia oranges, The Tidelands, matadors
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Spain
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Defeated the Spanish Armada
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Queen Elizabeth
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First to translate the Bible into English
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John Wycliffe
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Founded the modern nursing profession
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Florence Nightingale
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Invented the printing press
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Johann Gutenberg
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Adolf Hitler, "Land of the Reformation," divided after World War II
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Germany
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John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc
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France
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Jutland, Hans Christian Andersen, Greenland
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Denmark
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Leonardo da Vinci, Mussolini, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mt. Vesuvius
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Italy
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Means "many islands"
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Polynesia
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Means "small islands"
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Micronesia
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New Zealand's capital
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Wellington
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One of the waterways that gives Russia access to the Black Sea
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Dardanelles
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Papua New Guinea's capital
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Port Moresby
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Probably the greatest English author
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William Shakespeare
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Promised, "I will be good."
Definition
Queen Victoria
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The 20,000-30,000 islands in the Pacific
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Oceania
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The Roman general who "crossed the Rubicon"
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Julius Caesar
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The cold, treeless lands north of the Arctic circle
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tundra
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The continent with no permanent inhabitants
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Antarctica
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The country Khrushchev threatened to "bury"
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The United States
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The country that has more languages spoken in it than any other in the world
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Papua New Guinea
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The early settlers of New Zealand
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Maoris
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The eucalyptus tree is also called
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a gum tree
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The famous bard of ancient Greece
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Homer
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The first czar of Russia
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Ivan IV
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The first emperor of Rome
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Augustus Caesar
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The first leader of a Communist state
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Lenin
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The first man to insist that Antarctica was actually a continent
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Charles Wilkes
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The first man to reach the South Pole
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Ronald Amundsen
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The first man to sail around the Antarctic Circle
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Captain James Cook
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The founder of Communism
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Karl Marx
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The highest island peak in the world
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Mt. Wilhelm
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The highest peak in Europe
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Mt. Elbrus
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The largest artesian basin in the world
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Great Artesian Basin
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The largest level region in the world
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West Siberian Plain
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The largest ranches in Australia
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stations
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The leading producer of wool
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Australia
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The longest coral reef in the world
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Great Barrier Reef
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The longest river in Europe
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Volga
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The migration champion of the world
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arctic tern
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The most famous Antarctic explorer
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Richard Byrd
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The most important task performed by the monks
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Copying and preserving Scripture
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The most powerful Russian leader after the Soviet Union fell
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Yeltsin
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The mountain range found in easterns Australia
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Great Dividing Range
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The mountains that separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe
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Pyrenes
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The narrow waterway separating Europe from Africa
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Strait of Gibraltar
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The native inhabitants of Australia
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Aborigines
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The part of Oceania with the most people
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Melanesia
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The series of attempts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks
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Crusades
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The series of wars that Rome fought against Carthage
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Punic Wars
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The two continents that are entirely below the equator
Definition
Antarctica
Australia
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The word that is made from the two Greek words for "people" and "rule"
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republic
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The world's deepest freshwater lake
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Lake Baikal
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Tulips, windmills, wooden shoes, dikes, low lands
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the Netherlands
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Wild dogs
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dingoes
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William Tell, neutral republic, landlocked, International Red Cross
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Switzerland
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