Deck 2: Europe

Question 1

This has been the overall result of the European Union's policy toward agriculture.

A) a withdrawal from mixed farming in Europe
B) a decrease in production of wheat and dairy products in Europe
C) decreased specialization in oil seeds like canola in Europe
D) an increase in farm imports from outside Europe
E) decreased investment in European agriculture

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is the predominant religion in southern Europe?

A) Protestantism
B) Roman Catholicism
C) Eastern Orthodox
D) Judaism
E) No one religion predominates in southern Europe.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Most European migrants over previous centuries have gone to this destination.

A) the Americas
B) Australia and New Zealand
C) Asia
D) Israel
E) Africa

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Most important European cities of today began as settlements established by this group.

A) Muslims
B) Greeks
C) Romans
D) Phoenicians
E) Vikings

Question 5

This is one of the major advantages of former COMECON members.

A) cheap land and labor
B) local markets for agricultural production
C) well-developed communications and transportation infrastructure
D) well-developed knowledge-based industries
E) high levels of personal savings

Question 6

Which country was the first in oversea expansions?

A) France
B) Spain
C) Netherlands
D) Portugal
E) Italy

Question 7

What percent of Europe's population is approximately over 65 years of age?

A) 9%
B) 16%
C) 25%
D) 30%
E) 45%

Question 8

This is the best reason why Europe's population is growing so slowly at present.

A) decline in birthrates
B) increase in death rates
C) out-migration to other regions
D) AIDS infection
E) Europe is actually growing rapidly at present

Question 9

The Pyrenees Mountains designate the border between France and ________.

A) Spain
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) Belgium
E) Switzerland

Question 10

Within Europe, Germanic languages are mostly spoken in which region?

A) Northwestern Europe
B) Southern Europe
C) Eastern Europe
D) Russia
E) the Balkans

Question 11

Mistral winds blow down the Rhône Valley in southern ________.

A) Germany
B) France
C) Italy
D) Spain
E) Poland

Question 12

Which of the following is the largest of the European peninsulas?

A) Balkan Peninsula
B) Iberian Peninsula
C) Italian Peninsula
D) Scandinavian Peninsula
E) none of these

Question 13

Less than 3% of the European Union workforce is employed in this sector of the economy.

A) agriculture
B) industry
C) services
D) manufacturing
E) office work

Question 14

After an unsuccessful initiative program, this became the goal of COMECON.

A) economic self-sufficiency
B) mutual trade among the Soviet bloc
C) a move to Chinese Communism
D) export production for the West European market
E) capitalist investment

Question 15

This physiographic region has many important coalfields within Europe.

A) Northwestern Uplands
B) Alpine System
C) Central Plateaus
D) North European Lowlands
E) Mediterranean basin

Question 16

During what period did innovations in technology and business bring Europe into a new merchant capitalist economy?

A) 9th-10th century
B) 11th-12th century
C) 13th-14th century
D) 15th-16th century
E) 19th-20th century

Question 17

Spain and ________ used gold and silver from the Americas to increase their wealth during the colonial period.

A) Portugal
B) England
C) France
D) Germany
E) Italy

Question 18

Industrialization came to the coalfield areas of northern France, Belgium, and Germany during this time period.

A) 1790-1850
B) 1850-1870
C) 1870-1900
D) 1900-1920
E) 1940-1950

Question 19

________ are long narrow mountain ranges that stretch out like long cords along the edges.

A) Cordilleras
B) Meseta
C) Stabbur
D) Altiplano
E) none of the above

Question 20

Which country first developed polder landscape techniques?

A) Switzerland
B) France
C) United Kingdom
D) Netherlands
E) Italy

Question 21

The Randstad, a densely populated, highly urbanized region, is located in this country.

A) Sweden
B) Belgium
C) the Netherlands
D) Germany
E) Sweden

Question 22

Besides the Black Death, what was the other factor halting the "great medieval colonization?"

A) swidden agriculture
B) financing by princes
C) the Irish Potato Famine
D) collapse of the Roman Empire
E) Little Ice Age

Question 23

Which of the following is defined as a national economy in which all aspects of production are centrally controlled by government agencies?

A) command economy
B) common market
C) capitalism
D) welfare state
E) swidden

Question 24

"La Defense" is an example of a:

A) 19th century suburb
B) medieval city
C) central business district
D) new town suburban node
E) none of the above

Question 25

This is the largest city in France.

A) Paris
B) Rome
C) Madrid
D) Brussels
E) Lyon

Question 26

What is the single most dominant feature of the Nordic European landscape?

A) grasslands
B) deserts
C) forests
D) plains
E) cropland

Question 27

London is located on this river.

A) Rhine
B) Seine
C) Elbe
D) Thames
E) Marne

Question 28

Paris is located on this river.

A) Seine
B) Rhine
C) Rhone
D) Po
E) Marne

Question 29

What is "Balkanization"?

A) the combination of territories held together by an authoritarian government
B) the division of a territory into smaller and often mutually hostile political units
C) the division of a territory into smaller and often mutually dependent political units
D) the formation of federations of small political units
E) none of these

Question 30

One of the largest and most successful growth centers within metropolitan Paris is called:

A) La Defense
B) Potsdamer Platz
C) Londinium
D) Hague
E) Docklands

Question 31

What does the German word gastarbeiter mean?

A) German nationalism
B) internal passport
C) guest worker
D) foreigner
E) none of these

Question 32

When was the Marshall Plan instituted?

A) after World War I
B) after World War II
C) the end of Communism
D) the Gulf War
E) none of these

Question 33

Which of the following led to attempts at ethnic cleansing in the late 20th century?

A) Croat nationalism
B) Muslim nationalism
C) Serbian nationalism
D) Basque nationalism
E) none of these

Question 34

All of these are major cities of Europe's "Golden Triangle" except ________.

A) London
B) Rome
C) Paris
D) Berlin
E) None of these are in the "Golden Triangle."

Question 35

This is a semiarid, treeless, grassland plain.

A) tundra
B) steppe
C) polder
D) taiga
E) bora

Question 36

This was the predominant economic system in Europe before 1500.

A) feudalism
B) capitalism
C) the welfare state
D) fascism
E) Marxism

Question 37

The "Southern Crescent" of Europe includes all these cities except ________.

A) Paris
B) Milan
C) Turin
D) Munich
E) Zürich

Question 38

After World War II, this German city was divided between two countries, one under democratic rule, the other under Communist rule.

A) Bonn
B) Dortmund
C) Berlin
D) Amsterdam
E) Munich

Question 39

This is the best estimate of Europe's contribution to the world's aggregate GNP.

A) 13%
B) 23%
C) 33%
D) 43%
E) 73%

Question 40

A country that has a centralized, autocratic government and values nation and race over the individual is referred to as:

A) communism
B) democracy
C) command economy
D) fascism
E) socialism

Question 41

Most of the immigrants going to the Netherlands are from former colonies in Indonesia.

Question 42

Deep, bowl-shaped basins on mountainsides which are shaped by ice action are called:

A) moraines
B) cirques
C) fjords
D) tarns
E) alluvial fans

Question 43

This mountain range is sometimes used to mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.

A) Alps
B) Carpathians
C) Urals
D) Pyrenees
E) Apennines

Question 44

Almost all Western Europeans live in a European Union member country.

Question 45

World War II resulted in smaller ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe than before the war.

Question 46

A central business district is a central nucleus within a city, with mostly this kind of land use.

A) residential
B) commercial
C) industrial
D) recreational
E) cultural

Question 47

The principal industry of the Alpine region is:

A) sheep farming
B) manufacturing
C) banking
D) fishing
E) tourism

Question 48

The original domestication of wine grapes seems to have taken place as early as 8000 B.C.E. along the mountains slopes of France and Spain.

Question 49

Beginning around 750 B.C.E. , the ancient Greeks developed a series of fortified city states called:

A) poleis
B) latifundia
C) apparatchiks
D) foggara
E) none of the above

Question 50

Fjords are steep-sided, narrow inlets of the sea, formed when deeply glaciated valleys are flooded by the sea.

Question 51

All of the countries of Eastern Europe once had Communist governments.

Question 52

The first wave of European industrialization was located in the coal fields of northern France, Belgium, and Germany.

Question 53

The United Nations Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding global agreement to reduce greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere.

Question 54

The cost advantages that accure to individual firms because of their location among functionally related activities is called:

A) economies of scale
B) agglomeration economies
C) subsistence economies
D) growth pole economies
E) nodal economies

Question 55

Which of these countries never had a Communist government?

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) Greece
D) United Kingdom
E) None of these countries ever had a Communist government.

Question 56

Loess is a fine-grained, extremely fertile soil.

Question 57

Ukraine is a former Soviet republic which has successfully reintegrated with the rest of Europe.

Question 58

Xenophobia is:

A) a hate, or fear, of Americans
B) a hate or fear of religion
C) a hate, or fear, of foreigners
D) a love, or acceptance of foreigners
E) a love, or acceptance of Americans

Question 59

Which country was expelled from the Soviet bloc due to ideological differences?

A) Bulgaria
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Hungary
D) Yugoslavia
E) Finland

Question 60

In the steppe region of the North European Lowlands, what type of agriculture dominates the landscape?

A) wheat
B) sheep
C) cattle
D) corn
E) fruit and vegetable

Question 61

The Dutch Muslim population of between five and six million is the largest in Western Europe.

Question 62

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
France

Question 63

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Romania

Question 64

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Ireland

Question 65

Slavic languages dominate southern Europe.

Question 66

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Norway

Question 67

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Spain

Question 68

Discuss demographic change in Europe since 1900. What are some of the factors that led to a population implosion during the 20th century? What are some of the strategies European countries currently employ to offset low population growth rates?

Question 69

What was the Cold War? When did it begin and end? Why did the Soviet Union establish a buffer zone in Eastern Europe?

Question 70

Discuss Muslims in Europe. Where are the majority of Europe's Muslims located? What events contributed to the migration of Muslims to Europe? What are some of the problems Muslims face living in the largely Christian European realm?

Question 71

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Portugal

Question 72

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Croatia

Question 73

Women in Europe generally have a significantly longer life expectancy than men.

Question 74

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Latvia

Question 75

Enclaves are culturally distinct territories that are surrounded by the territory of a different cultural group, whereas exclaves are portions of a country or of a culture group's territory that lie outside its contiguous land area.

Question 76

What is the status of women in European society today? Is the status of women similar throughout all regions of Europe, or are some women more advantaged than others?

Question 77

All European States are now net migration countries.

Question 78

What is meant by the phrase "European Dream"? Compare and contrast the "European Dream" and the "American Dream."

Question 79

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Bulgaria

Question 80

Match each country with its capital.

A) Kiev
B) Oslo
C) Bucharest
D) Riga
E) Zagreb
F) Madrid
G) Paris
H) Dublin
I) Lisbon
J) Sofia
Ukraine