Deck 8: Europe

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a source of Europe's environmental problems?

A) long history of agriculture
B) a major nuclear accident in 1994
C) extraction of resources
D) industrial manufacturing
E) urbanization

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Figure 8.11,which of the following countries of Europe has the highest population density?

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

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland?

A) Italy
B) Greece
C) Switzerland
D) Netherlands
E) Spain

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In Europe,with what type of feature are the names Rhine,Loire,Thames,Danube,and Elbe associated?

A) Alpine mountain ranges
B) cities
C) small countries
D) rivers
E) ethnic groups

Question 5

How does the environment of Eastern Europe compare to that of Western Europe?

A) The environment in Eastern Europe was much more polluted than that of Western Europe, until recent efforts to rectify the situation, with the help of the European Union.
B) The environment in Western Europe was much more polluted than that of Easter Europe, until recent efforts to rectify the situation, with the help of the European Union.
C) The environment in Eastern Europe is much more polluted than that of Western Europe.
D) The environment in Western Europe is much more polluted than that of Easter Europe.
E) The environment in Eastern Europe has more air pollution, but less water pollution than that of Western Europe.

Question 6

What is the approximate population of Europe?

A) 250 million
B) 530 million
C) 670 million
D) 830 million
E) 1 billion

Question 7

What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet.

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

Question 8

Which part of Europe is the region's unquestionable focus of intensive agriculture,large cities,and major industrial activities?

A) the Alpine mountain region
B) the Central Uplands
C) the Iberian Peninsula
D) the European Lowland
E) the Western Highlands

Question 9

In which European country would you find fjords?

A) Ireland
B) Norway
C) Netherlands
D) Italy
E) Germany

Question 10

How many countries does Europe contain?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 42
E) 50

Question 11

What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?

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

Question 12

Which of the following factors does NOT explain the environmental diversity of Europe?

A) complex geology that produced some of the newest, as well as oldest, landscapes in the world
B) the latitudinal extent of Europe
C) El Niño
D) the interaction of land and sea
E) A long history of human settlement has transformed the land.

Question 13

What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?

A) Sea ice is dwindling.
B) There is sparse snow cover in arctic Scandinavia.
C) There are frequent droughts in the water-starved Mediterranean region.
D) A and B above
E) A, B, and C above

Question 14

Which country of Europe has the largest population in the region?

A) Germany
B) The United Kingdom
C) France
D) Poland
E) Italy

Question 15

Which country of Europe is most likely to experience drought?

A) Norway
B) Portugal
C) Germany
D) Austria

Question 16

What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s?

A) the release of the last German colony in Africa in 1989
B) the expulsion of many foreign-born immigrants from France
C) an environmental disaster in the Balkans
D) Germany's mild climate
E) the collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 17

According to Figure 8.11,which of the following cities is located in the area with the highest population densities?

A) Belgrade
B) Sarajevo
C) Cologne
D) Nantes
E) Bucharest

Question 18

How many countries make up the European Union (EU)?

A) 5
B) 10
C) 18
D) 27
E) 35

Question 19

Probably the most striking characteristic of Europe's demography is

A) that almost 40 percent of the population is illiterate.
B) the continued 10 percent more women than men in most of the countries.
C) the high rural population.
D) youthfulness of its population.
E) the lack of natural growth.

Question 20

What progress has Europe made toward meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol?

A) It has made no progress at all.
B) It has made relatively little progress.
C) It is half-way towards meeting its goals.
D) It has met its goal.
E) It has exceeded its goal.

Question 21

Besides the division between western and eastern churches,the other great split within Christianity occurred between

A) Catholicism and Protestantism.
B) Orthodox Christians and New Age Christians.
C) Methodists and Anglicans.
D) Charismatic Churches and Traditional Churches.
E) None of the above

Question 22

Which of the following languages is NOT Germanic?

A) Basque
B) English
C) Danish
D) Norwegian
E) Swedish

Question 23

In which country of Europe has conflict between Catholics and Protestants been a problem?

A) Northern Ireland
B) England
C) Scotland
D) Wales
E) Ireland

Question 24

Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War II to less than 2 million today?

A) A drought led to famine in the regions where they were living, killing many and causing many more to emigrate.
B) The creation of Israel caused most Jews to emigrate from Europe to the Middle East.
C) An outbreak of smallpox during World War II in the region where most European Jews lived killed many of them.
D) German Nazis murdered approximately 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
E) all of the above

Question 25

Today,Europe has just under ________ million Protestants

A) 20
B) 50
C) 100
D) 150.
E) 250

Question 26

What has been an important source of conflict in Northern Ireland?

A) The Protestant minority feel that the Catholic minority has discriminated against them.
B) The Catholic minority feel that the Protestant majority has discriminated against them.
C) The northern Irish want all of the road signs and other public documents printed in their native Celtic language.
D) There is a large influx of foreign immigration every year.
E) There is a proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Question 27

"One of narrow,winding streets,crowded with three- or four-story masonry buildings with little setback from the street." This describes which of the following?

A) Landscapes of contemporary French urban cities
B) The Rennaisance-Baroque period
C) Contemporary landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula.
D) rural landscapes in contemporary Europe
E) the medieval landscape

Question 28

What is the second-most widely spoken Germanic language in Europe?

A) English
B) Swedish
C) Danish
D) Norwegian
E) German

Question 29

Which European Romance language contains many Slavic words?

A) Romanian
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Italian
E) Portuguese

Question 30

Germany's population includes a large number of guest workers (and their descendants)from which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?

A) Iran
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Yemen
D) Turkey
E) United Arab Emirates

Question 31

Where do most immigrants to France come from?

A) Eastern Europe
B) France's former colonies in Africa
C) India and Pakistan
D) Hong Kong
E) Quebec, Canada

Question 32

What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?

A) Renaissance-Baroque, industrial, post-modern
B) medieval, Renaissance-Baroque, art deco
C) medieval, Renaissance-Baroque, industrial
D) pre-modern, medieval, modern
E) colonial, industrial, post-modern

Question 33

In what part of Europe is Protestantism the dominant religion?

A) northern Germany
B) Sweden
C) England
D) Norway
E) all of the answer choices are correct

Question 34

Why have many European countries encouraged immigration of foreign populations into their borders in the recent past?

A) They want to increase the diversity of their ethnic composition.
B) It is a requirement of the European Union.
C) They were experiencing low or negative growth, and needed immigrants to fill gaps in their labor force.
D) Many feel it would be a way to make up for the transgressions they committed against these people during World War II.
E) all of the answer choices are correct

Question 35

"...more open and spacious,with expansive ceremonial buildings and squares,monuments,ornamental gardens,and wide boulevards lined with palatial residences." This describes which of the following?

A) Landscapes of contemporary French urban cities
B) The Rennaisance-Baroque period
C) Contemporary landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula.
D) rural landscapes in contemporary Europe
E) the medieval landscape

Question 36

One of the major characteristics of Europe's population and settlement patterns is its high level of

A) urbanization.
B) crime.
C) drug use.
D) corruption.
E) integration.

Question 37

What countries of Europe comprise the region of Scandinavia?

A) Norway, Sweden, Denmark
B) Switzerland and Austria
C) Germany and France
D) Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium
E) Spain and Portugal

Question 38

Today,Europe has about ________ million Catholics

A) 20
B) 50
C) 100
D) 150.
E) 250

Question 39

The number of speakers of Romance and Germanic languages in Europe is roughly equal.About how many speakers does each group have in Europe?

A) 10 million
B) 20 million
C) 100 million
D) 200 million
E) 1 billion

Question 40

As their first language,90 percent of Europe's population speak languages from what three groups?

A) Romance, Slavic, Hellenic
B) Germanic, Hellenic, Basque
C) Romance, Magyar, Celtic
D) Romance, Hellenic, Celtic
E) Germanic, Romance, Slavic

Question 41

The highest and longest mountain range in Europe are the Pyrenees.

Question 42

When did the Industrial Revolution emerge?

A) from 1258-1492
B) from 1540-1680
C) from 1730-1850
D) from 1870-1920
E) from 1940-1970

Question 43

What do the letters in NATO stand for?

A) National Anti-Terrorism Organization
B) North Austrian Transportation Organization
C) Norway-Austria Treaty Organization
D) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
E) Netherlands Against Terrorism Organization

Question 44

Of the former Yugoslav republics,only ___________has actually achieved membership in the EU,although all Balkan countries have begun the lengthy and complex EU membership process.

A) Slovenia
B) Slovakia
C) Czech Republic
D) Bosnia and Hezegovina
E) Serbia

Question 45

The term ________ is used to describe the geopolitical processes of small scale independence movements based upon ethnic fault lines.

A) irredentism
B) balkanization
C) shatter belt
D) centrifugal forces
E) neutrality turf

Question 46

What kind of organization is the European Union?

A) an international organization working toward the improvement of Europe's transportation network
B) a regional organization working toward the integration of professional athletics in Europe
C) a supranational organization working toward economic, political, and cultural integration in Europe
D) an international labor union working to retain jobs in the region
E) a supranational organization focusing on the common defense and the development of a nuclear arsenal

Question 47

What was the Cold War?

A) armed warfare between Eastern Europe and Western Europe from 1968-1973
B) the nickname given to efforts by the cold, northern countries of Europe to resolve their energy crisis in the 1990s in order to avoid deaths caused by hypothermia
C) an armed conflict between the United States and the USSR that lasted from 1946-1991 and included occupation of several European countries by the United States
D) an ideological struggle between the United States and the former Soviet Union that lasted from 1946-1991, and included Soviet occupation of several European countries
E) armed warfare between Eastern Europe and Western Europe that lasted from 1986-1991

Question 48

According to Figure 8.18,which of the following are the two language subfamilies found in the British Isles?

A) Helenic and Slavic
B) Celtic and Germanic
C) Romance and Germanic
D) Celtic and Romance
E) Romance and Altaic

Question 49

Which European country was NOT one of the "Allies" during World War II?

A) France
B) Britain
C) Russia
D) Germany
E) United States

Question 50

The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders almost to the gates of what European city in the middle of the 16th century?

A) Rome, Italy
B) Paris, France
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Berlin, Germany
E) London, England

Question 51

What was the metaphorical name given to the policy of separation that divided Europe into two separate geopolitical and economic blocs after World War II?

A) Berlin Wall
B) Iron Curtain
C) Kremlin
D) Autobahn
E) buffer zone

Question 52

Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War II centered on what commodity (commodities)?

A) telegraph and telephones
B) transportation
C) textiles
D) computers and information technology
E) coal and steel

Question 53

What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?

A) the euro
B) the franc
C) the Deutschemark
D) the pound
E) the dollar

Question 54

What is the word for a state policy of reclaiming lost lands or lands inhabited by people of the same ethnicity in another state?

A) balkanization
B) collectivism
C) feudalism
D) irredentism
E) privatization

Question 55

What is the word for an array of nonaligned or friendly states that cushion or protect a larger country from invasion,as happened with the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European neighbors?

A) Balkan region
B) homelands
C) buffer zone
D) convection cells
E) distributaries

Question 56

Which of the following European countries was a member of the now-defunct Warsaw Pact alliance?

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

Question 57

How many world wars were fought in Europe?

A) none
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
E) 4

Question 58

From 1945 until 1990,Europe was divided into two geopolitical and economic blocs,east and west,separated by the infamous

A) Armed soldiers.
B) Iron Curtain.
C) Glasnost.
D) KGB.
E) Buffer zone.

Question 59

Which non-European country signed an agreement to become Germany's military ally and set the scene for World War II?

A) Japan
B) United States
C) Russia
D) China
E) India

Question 60

Which country of Europe has the region's largest percentage of Muslims?

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

Question 61

Industrialization did little to alter the landscape of European cities.

Question 62

Within Europe,air and water pollution are the worst in Eastern Europe.

Question 63

The Schengen Agreement paved the way for the reunification of East and West Germany.

Question 64

The Basque language is spoken only in a small region of Spain.

Question 65

The United Kingdom has the largest population in the European region.

Question 66

Germany's population includes a large number of guest workers (and their descendants)from Iraq.

Question 67

Spain has the highest population density of any country in Europe (with the exception of city-states Monaco and San Marino,and the island of Malta).

Question 68

Not only does Germany actually have a negative rate of natural increase (RNI)of --0.2,but also the large countries of England,France,and Italy have RNIs below population replacement levels.

Question 69

The Carpathian Mountains define the limits of the Alpine system in Southern Europe.

Question 70

With high unemployment and economic stress currently widespread in Europe,the region no longer needs to import workers internationally.

Question 71

Since 1990,many people have migrated from East Germany to West Germany in search of religious freedom.

Question 72

The medieval landscape is one of narrow,winding streets,crowded with three- or four-story masonry buildings with little setback from the street.

Question 73

Europe's population is approximately 530 million people.

Question 74

Europe has a very slow rate of population growth.

Question 75

The collapse of the Soviet Union played a key role in the recent surge of immigration to European countries.

Question 76

The Alpine region is the unquestionable focus of intensive agriculture,large cities,and major industrial areas in Europe.

Question 77

Because most European governments consider low or no population growth an economic and social liability,programs and policies have arisen to promote population growth,ranging from attempts to ban abortion and the sale of contraceptives to what are commonly called "family-friendly" policies.

Question 78

The long history of human settlement has transformed and modified Europe's natural landscapes in fundamental ways over thousands of years.

Question 79

Today residents of EU countries cannot move about as they please to travel,study,and work.

Question 80

Germanic and Romance speakers each number almost 40 million in the European region.