Europe Physical Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Sailing east from mainland Greece toward western Turkey, which sea would you cross?
The Baltic Sea
The Black Sea
The Adriatic Sea
The Aegean Sea
2. A traveler in Helsinki looks south across the Gulf of Finland. Which country lies on the opposite shore?
Latvia
Sweden
Estonia
Lithuania
3. Which large volcanic island lies in the North Atlantic, west of Norway and southeast of Greenland?
Crete
Ireland
Sardinia
Iceland
4. Which broad lowland belt extends from northern France through northern Germany and into Poland?
The Po Plain
The Pannonian Plain
The Andalusian Plain
The North European Plain
5. A river journey passes through Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, and Belgrade. Which river is being followed?
The Rhine
The Elbe
The Danube
The Rhône
6. Which mountain range forms much of the natural border between Spain and France?
The Pyrenees
The Alps
The Carpathians
The Apennines
7. Portugal and most of Spain share which peninsula?
The Italian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula
The Crimean Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula
8. Which mountain system forms a broad arc through parts of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania?
The Dinaric Alps
The Carpathians
The Scandinavian Mountains
The Cantabrian Mountains
9. After flowing north from Germany, the Rhine divides into distributaries before reaching the North Sea. In which country is this delta region primarily located?
Belgium
Denmark
Poland
The Netherlands
10. Which named peninsula extends into the Mediterranean Sea and contains most of mainland Italy?
The Apennine Peninsula
The Balkan Peninsula
The Jutland Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula
11. A ship travels along Italy’s eastern coast with Croatia on the opposite side. Which sea is it crossing?
The Adriatic Sea
The Ionian Sea
The Ligurian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea
12. Norway and Sweden occupy most of which major European peninsula?
The Jutland Peninsula
The Scandinavian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula
The Balkan Peninsula
13. Which body of water separates southern England from northern France?
The Irish Sea
The North Sea
The English Channel
The Bay of Biscay
14. A traveler crosses the central Alps directly southward from Switzerland. Which country will the traveler enter?
Italy
Austria
France
Slovenia
15. Which lowland region lies in northern Italy between the Alps and the northern Apennines?
The Pannonian Plain
The Wallachian Plain
The Po Plain
The North European Plain
16. Which river flows through Paris before continuing northwest toward the English Channel?
The Loire
The Seine
The Garonne
The Rhône