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T/F: The Law of the Primate City holds that a country's leading city is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling.

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True

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The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called:

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Kaliningrad

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T/F: The central uplands is a region of hills and low plateaus loaded with raw materials.

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True

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The conurbation centered by London lies within which of the following regions

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Southern England

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T/F: Denmark, because of its location south of eh Baltic Sea and its entry waterways, is not considered part of the region of Norden.

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False

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T/F: Albania is the most prosperous Eastern European country.

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Flase

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Slovakia contains a large ____ minority.

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Hungarian

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T/F: The Ruhr is located in the Paris Basin.

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False

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The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?

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Pyrenees

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Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory

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Gibraltar

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Economically, Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the:

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Ancona Line

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The Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is:

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Cyprus

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The geographic principle under which particular people and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as

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local functional specialization

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T/F: Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia in the early 1990's.

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True

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The three principles of spatial interaction are:

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complementarity, intervening opportunity, transferability

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T/F: The city of Paris has great advantages of site, but major disadvantages in its situation.

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False

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T/F: The Roams extended their empire as far west as Britain, whereas the Greeks before them did not.

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True

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German reunification:

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occurred in 1990

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T/F: Greece's vegetation has been denuded by centuries of deforestation.

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True

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T/F: Stockholm is not only Norway's capital, but Northern Europe's largest city as well.

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False

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T/F: Even though British dominance over most of the Ireland ended in 1921, they are still called the British Isles.

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True

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Which of the following is not a state created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia?

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Slovakia

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T/F: The Romans extended their Empire as far west as Britain, whereas the Greeks before them did not.

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True

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Which of the following cities is not part of one of the four motors of europe?

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Brussels

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T/F: To a considerable degree, Belgium and the Netherlands are in a position of economic complementarity.

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True

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T/F: The Greek Empire was the first truly interregional political unit in Europe.

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False

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Which of the following is not an example of European supernationalism?

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Ukraine's Orange Revolution

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_________ is the discontinuous North's largest country in terms of both population (9.4 million) and territory.

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Sweden

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The Mediterranean European country with the lowest percentage of urban residents is:

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Portugal

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T/F: The three largest Nordic countries all have their major concentrations of population in the southern part of their national territory.

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True

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A country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is know as the country's:

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Primate city

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The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as:

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devolution

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Significant oil ad natural gas supplies have been found beneath the:

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North Sea

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Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area?

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Milan

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The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and North Sea

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France

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T/F: After its medieval period of prominence, Italy's Po Plain has lost nearly all of its importance

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False

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T/F: The northeastern corner of Ireland was a haven for English and Scottish Catholics and remained under British control.

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True

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______ has been pulling through the global recession better than any other country in the realm.

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Germany

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T/F: Belgium and the Netherlands possess economies that contain similar proportions of agricultural and manufacturing activity.

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False

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T/F: In terms of income per capita, Norway is one of the richest countries in the world.

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True

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Which state contains Serb, Croat, and Muslim population that were finally brought together in 1955 at a US-run peace conference.

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Bosnia

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T/F: The Danube River has been the great regional bond for Eastern Europe.

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False

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Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:

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the Po River Valley

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T/F: The balkanization of a region implies its political unification.

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False

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Von Thunen in his "isolated State" argued that five rings of human activity would develop around the central town or city. The first (or nearest) of these is:

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a zone of intensive farming and dairying

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The country is located directly accross the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain is:

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Morocco

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Europe's political revolution:

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began in 1789 with the French Revolution

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T/F: After tis medieval period of prominence, Italy's Po Plain has lost nearly all of its importance.

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False

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T/F: Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places

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True

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T/F: Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.

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True

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The Northern European country that has benefited the most from North Sea oil is:

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Norway

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The capital and primate city of Greece is:

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Athens

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T/F: The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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True

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___________ forces are divisive to a nation.

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centrifugal

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The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the:

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Rhine

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The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is:

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Switzerland

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T/F: The leading states of the region we have defined as Western Europe are France adn Germany.

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True

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T/F: Albania was part of the former Yugoslavia.

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False

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The term Balkanization refers to:

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the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of Eastern Europe

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The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus?

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Greek Cypriot

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The North European lowland:

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is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions

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T/F: Due largely to its peripheral location, Nordic Europe remains underdeveloped.

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False

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The largest ethnic minority in Ukraine are the:

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Russians

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The Industrial Revolution in Europe:

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initially was focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged

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T/F: The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is situated in the northern portion of that island, and is today once again ruled by the British government.

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False

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The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as:

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Catalonia

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Only the southern portion of which of the following islands was recently granted admission to the EU?

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Cyprus

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Which Nordic European city serves as a break of bulk, or entrepot city?

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Copenhagen

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T/F: The spatial interaction principle of transferability refers to the ability to move a good at a bearable cost

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True

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T/F: The United Kingdom, a charter member of the European Common Market, quit that organization in disagreement in 1973.

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False

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