Deck 4: Europe

Question 1

The location of cities at the intersection of transportation routes and areas of abundant natural resources illustrates how situation affects geography. ​

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Although Europe is half the size of the contiguous United States, it has a larger population. ​

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Europe is a great peninsula, fringed by smaller peninsulas and islands and bordered on its seaward sides by the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. ​

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Of the Indo-European language family, Romance, Germanic, and Slavic are the three main branches of European languages. ​

Question 5

As glaciers have retreated across Scandinavia, the process of isostatic rebound has caused the land to rise. ​

Question 6

The dominant biome in Europe is temperate coniferous forest. ​

Question 7

English is one of the original Romance languages. ​

Question 8

Euro-Fascists advocate for the support of immigrants and minority communities across Europe.

Question 9

Although Europe's population growth is declining on average, population growth is surging in the countries of Eastern Europe as a result of the fall of communism. ​

Question 10

Some of the world's most economically and politically important countries lie in the European core, a zone stretching across northwest and north central Europe. ​

Question 11

Hitler's Zionist Movement sought to expel and exterminate Jews from Europe. ​

Question 12

Modern humans have lived in Europe for at least 40,000 years. ​

Question 13

The traditional physical divide between Europe and Asia has historically been from the Ural Mountains down to the Caucasus. However, this places a portion of Turkey, a large portion of Russia, and three of its former republics, now independent countries, in Europe. ​

Question 14

Islam is the fastest growing faith in Europe. ​

Question 15

As Europe transitions into a post-industrial society, its manufacturing output continues to climb, but at the expense of decimating the service sector. ​

Question 16

The persecution of Muslims and Jews in Europe is a relatively new phenomenon, arising during the 20^th century. ​

Question 17

Europe's population continues to grow as it enters the final stage of the demographic transition ​

Question 18

Unemployment has become a serious problem for Europe since the 2008 economic crisis. ​

Question 19

The predominant faith in Europe is Protestantism. ​

Question 20

The Basque people live in northern Spain, and their language (Basque)is the only surviving language from before the Proto-Indo European expansion. ​

Question 21

Which geologic process played a major role in shaping Europe's landscapes? ​

A)desertification
B)volcanism
C)glaciation
D)flooding
E)earthquakes

Question 22

What is the wind-blown soil that covers much of the North European Plain called? ​

A)loess
B)humus
C)alluvium
D)drift
E)potash

Question 23

The four major areas of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. ​

Question 24

Although _____ has the largest area of any European countries, _____ is the most populous. ​

A)Germany; France
B)France; Italy
C)Finland; United Kingdom ​
D)France; Germany
E)Spain; France

Question 25

The military alliance NATO stands for Non-Aggressive Treaty Organization.

Question 26

How many countries are in the European Union? ​

A)7
B)11
C)21
D)28
E)35

Question 27

Bombings, shootings, and arson attacks by the IRA (Irish Republican Army)were conducted in support of direct rule. ​

Question 28

Which Christian religion originated in Constantinople (now Istanbul)and spread to Greece?  ​

A)Eastern Orthodox
B)Calvinism
C)Lutheran Protestantism
D)Catholicism
E)Islam

Question 29

The Moors brought their _____ faith and civilization to the Iberian Peninsula. ​

A)Jewish
B)Protestant
C)Catholic
D)Eastern Orthodox
E)Islam

Question 30

Europe is the only major continent that does not need to rely on natural gas and petroleum from the Middle East.

Question 31

In order to join the European Union, countries must adopt the euro. ​

Question 32

Prior to unification, communist West Germany was occupied by Soviet forces. ​

Question 33

The European Economic Community, or Common Market, was the precursor to the European Union and was created by the Treaty of Rome. ​

Question 34

What was the site of the first European civilization? ​

A)Greece
B)Rome
C)Ukraine
D)Paris
E)Istanbul

Question 35

Which river empties into Rotterdam and is arguably the most important river in Europe? ​

A)Thames
B)Scheldt
C)Danube
D)Elbe
E)Rhine

Question 36

European wealth is unbalanced, as Eastern Europe has significantly more wealth than Western Europe.

Question 37

What is the primary source of population growth in most European countries?  ​

A)emigration
B)immigration
C)higher birth rates
D)lower death rates
E)revisions to borders between Europe and Asia

Question 38

When referring to the European Union, it is correct to call it either the European Union or the Eurozone.  ​

Question 39

Why does Europe have a mild climate despite its high latitude? ​

A)Tilt of Earth
B)Global warming
C)Warm water that originate in tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean
D)Lack of glaciers
E)Large volume of emissions from industrial and manufacturing centers

Question 40

In 1939, there were approximately 9.7 million Jews in Europe, but by the end of World War II and as a direct result of the Holocaust, only about 3.9 million Jews remained in Europe. ​

Question 41

Which European country set the goal of being the first world power to rely solely on renewable energy by 2050? ​

A)France
B)Germany
C)Switzerland
D)Spain
E)United Kingdom

Question 42

__________ refers to the distribution of living things on Earth. ​

Question 43

The troubles in Northern Ireland involves violence between which groups? ​

A)Loyalists and Tories
B)rural and urban dwellers
C)unions and workers
D)natives and immigrants
E)Catholics and Protestants

Question 44

The longest global trade route before the rise of Europe was the 5000-mile (8000 km)__________ __________ along which goods moved overland (and on the Mediterranean Sea)from Venice to Chang-an (Xi'an)in China. ​

Question 45

Which treaty officially created the European Union? ​

A)Maastricht Treaty
B)Treaty of Rome
C)Elbe Agreement
D)EU Unification Treaty
E)Common Market Treaty

Question 46

Continental ice sheets (glaciers)covered much of northern Europe, during the __________ __________ of the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million to 10,000 years ago). ​

Question 47

A notable political process in modern Europe, often related to issues of linguistic, religious, and ethnic identity, is __________, the dispersal of political powers to ethnic minorities and other subnational groups.  ​

Question 48

The Great War (WWI)pitted Britain, France, and Russia against which countries? ​

A)Austria and Hungary
B)Germany and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
C)Prussia and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
D)Austria and Germany
E)Poland and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

Question 49

What was the Warsaw Pact?  ​

A)an alliance of the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites
B)the agreement ending WWII
C)the agreement ending WWI
D)the agreement to tear down the Berlin Wall
E)an alliance between the European Union and the Eurozone

Question 50

The __________ __________current and its appendage, the North Atlantic Drift, which originate in tropical western parts of the Atlantic Ocean, flow to the north and east and cause the waters around Europe to be much warmer in winter than its latitude might suggest. ​

Question 51

Tax penalties imposed on imports are called __________. ​

Question 52

A pproximately 4 million __________ who live across Europe have no country or region of their own and are an Indo-European group that probably migrated from India into southeastern Europe around or before 1100 CE. ​

Question 53

For a long time, m any European nations fit the model of the __________ __________, because they used resources collected through high taxation rates to provide generous social services to citizens. ​

Question 54

During World War II, Germany allied itself with which countries?  ​

A)Austria and Italy
B)France, Italy, and Japan
C)France and the United Kingdom
D)Italy, Turkey, and Japan
E)Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union

Question 55

One of the most prominent surface features of Europe is an undulating or rolling, plain that extends without a break from near the French-Spanish border, across western and northern France, central and northern Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, northern Germany, Poland, and far into Russia, known as the __________ __________ __________. ​

Question 56

European relations with Russia became strained after the Russian invasion of what country in 2014? ​

A)Lithuania
B)Ukraine
C)Albania
D)Macedonia
E)Estonia

Question 57

Which ethnic group was the aggressor in the 1990s wars on the Balkan Peninsula?

A)Albanians
B)Slovenes
C)Croats
D)Serbs
E)Bosniaks

Question 58

In the aftermath of WWII, what U.S. program helped western Europe recover? ​

A)Marshall Plan
B)Warsaw Pact
C)North American Agreement
D)Iron Curtain Accord
E)Schengen Agreement

Question 59

What precipitated the European debt crisis of 2010?  ​

A)collapse of the housing market
B)consumer credit card debt reached a record high
C)the threat of Greece defaulting on its loans
D)collapse of the euro
E)banning of export dumping

Question 60

Payments made to domestic producers to encourage production and support rural incomes are called __________. ​

Question 61

How do the U.S. and Europe differ in terms of social justice, public education, taxes, or other public policies and opinions?

Question 62

What factors have influenced the increasingly negative views of Europeans towards immigrants?

Question 64

During the Columbian Exchange many agricultural products were exchanged between Europe and the Americas. List three products that diffused from the New World to the Old World and three products that diffused from the Old World to the New World. ​

Question 65

What is balkanization? Give one example of how it has occurred in Europe. ​

Question 66

Beginning in the 20^th century, Europe has faded in global economic supremacy. Although Europe remains economically important today, list four factors that have contributed to the decline in European global dominance. ​

Question 67

What are three advantages of using a common currency like the euro? ​

Question 68

List five characteristics of the European Core that distinguish it from the other subregions of Europe. ​

Question 69

What are three characteristics of communism, and how did they impact the industry and agriculture of eastern Europe? ​

Question 70

Describe three of the economic benefits realized by the formation of the European Union. ​

Question 75

Why did Sweden, Denmark, and Great Britain reject the euro? ​