Globalization and Diversity Chapter 8 – Flashcards
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1) How many countries make up the European Union (EU)? - PG 252 - L
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27 countries
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2) How many countries does Europe contain? - PG 252 - L
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42 countries
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3) What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet.- PG 255 - L
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Alps - part of the Alpine Mountain System
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4) In Europe, with what type of feature are the names Rhine, Loire, Thames, Danube, and Elbe associated? - PG 254 - R
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Rivers
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5) What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France? - PG 255 - L
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Pyrenees - part of the Alpine Mountain System
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6) Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland? - PG 254 - R
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Netherlands ?
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7) In which European country would you find fjords? - PG 255 - R
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Norway
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8) Which part of Europe is the region's unquestionable focus of intensive agriculture, large cities, and major industrial activities? - PG 252 - R / 253 L
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European Lowlands
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9) How does the environment of Eastern Europe compare to that of Western Europe? - PG 257 - fig
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Eastern is colder (Continental) , polar like - Western is mild or Mediterranean (Oceanic)
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10) What progress has Europe made toward meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol?
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Fell short of 8% reduction --- 1% England and Germany reduced emissions over 10% by cutting coal usage, using more solar power etc.
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11) Which country of Europe is most likely to experience drought? - PG 258 - R
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Spain? (Mediterranean)
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12) What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe? - PG 258 - R
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Warmer climates - causing glaciers to melt, snow to decrease, and droughts to become more frequent
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13) Which country of Europe has the largest population in the region? - PG 263 - figure
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Germany
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14) What is the approximate population of Europe? - PG 262 - figure
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531 million
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15) What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s? - PG 265 - L
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The collapse of the Soviet Union
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16) Why have many European countries encouraged immigration of foreign populations into their borders in the recent past? - PG 265 - L
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High unemployment, no need to import workers
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17) Germany's population includes a large number of guest workers (and their descendants) from which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa? - PG 265 - figure
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Turkey
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18) Where do most immigrants to France come from? - PG 265 - figure
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Africa Former colonies in both northern and Sub-Saharan Africa
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19) What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes? - PG 266 - R
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Medieval Renaissance - Baroque Industrial
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20) One of the major characteristics of Europe's population and settlement patterns is its high level of ____________________ -- PG 266 - L
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Urbanization
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21) What countries of Europe comprise the region of Scandinavia?
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While the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands).
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22) Which European Romance language contains many Slavic words? - PG 270 - L
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Romanian
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23) As their first language, 90 percent of Europe's population speak languages from what three groups? - PG 269 figure
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Germanic, Romance, and Slavic
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24) The number of speakers of Romance and Germanic languages in Europe is roughly equal. About how many speakers does each group have in Europe?
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170 - 200 million
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25) What is the second-most widely spoken Germanic language in Europe? - PG 268 - R
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English
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26) Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War II to less than 2 million today? - PG 272 - L
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The Holocaust - 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis
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27) Besides the division between western and eastern churches, the other great split within Christianity occurred between whom (or what). - PG 270 - R
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Use of the Cyrillic alphabet v/s Latin
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28) What has been an important source of conflict in Northern Ireland? - PG 270 - R
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Religion (Catholic v/s Protestant)
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29) Today, Europe has about ________ million Catholics - PG 272 - L
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250 million
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30) Today, Europe has just under ________ million Protestants - PG 272 - L
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100 million
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31) In what part of Europe is Protestantism the dominant religion? - PG 272 - L
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Northern Germany, Scandinavian countries, and England
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32) Which country of Europe has the region's largest percentage of Muslims? - PG 272 - R
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France
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33) The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders almost to the gates of what European city in the middle of the 16th century? - PG 272 - L
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Vienna
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34) What is the word for a state policy of reclaiming lost lands or lands inhabited by people of the same ethnicity in another state? - PG 274 - R
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Irredentism
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35) How many world wars were fought in Europe?
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Two
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36) Which non-European country signed an agreement to become Germany's military ally and set the scene for World War II? - PG 274 - R
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Japan
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37) What do the letters in NATO stand for? - PG 277 - L
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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38) From 1945 until 1990, Europe was divided into two geopolitical and economic blocs, east and west, separated by the infamous - PG 277 - figure
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Iron Curtain
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39) What was the Cold War? - PG 252 - L
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Democracy v/s communism --- US and Europe v/s Soviet Union (former)
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40) 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? - PG 277 - L
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Buffer Zone
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41) 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. - PG 279 figure AND 284 figure
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Slovenia
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42) The term ________ is used to describe the geopolitical processes of small scale independence movements based upon ethnic fault lines. - PG 287 - L
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Balkanization
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43) When did the Industrial Revolution emerge? - PG 280 - R
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1730 - England
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44) What is the currency of the European Monetary Union? - PG 283 - R
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Euro
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45) What kind of organization is the European Union? - PG 283 - L
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Initially monetary, then developed to political and security
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46) Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War II centered on what commodity (commodities)?
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Coal and Steel
