Lesson 4 Regional Geography CTC – Flashcards
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Today, Europe has about how many million Catholics?
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250
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Probably the most striking characteristic of Europe's demography is
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the lack of natural growth
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What is the word for a state policy of reclaiming lost lands or lands inhabited by people of the same ethnicity in another state?
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irredentism
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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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200 million
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Which of the Balkan states has the highest percentage of Muslim population?
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Kosovo
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Why did the population of Jews in Europe drop from 9.5 million before World War 2 to less than 2 million today?
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German Nazis murdered approximately 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
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On a per capita basis, what two countries granted asylum to the largest number of migrants?
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Sweden and Norway
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What progress has Europe made toward meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol?
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It has made relatively little progress.
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What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?
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medieval, Renaissance-Baroque, industrial
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The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders almost to the gates of what European city in the middle of the 16th century?
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Vienna, Austria
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The northern subregion of Europe is also known as
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Scandinavia
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Which of the following languages is NOT Germanic?
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Basque
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What countries of Europe comprise the region of Scandinavia?
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Norway, Sweden, Denmark
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What small British territory guards the narrow strait between Africa and Europe?
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Gibraltar
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What country has the lowest parliamentary representation by women?
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Cyprus
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What is a major reason for the new Cold War between Russia and the Western powers?
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Putin's ties to Russian organized crime
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How many world wars were fought in Europe?
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2
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What non Indo-European language is spoken in Spain?
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Basque
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Which country of Europe has the largest population in the region?
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Germany
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Which country would NOT be considered a European microstate?
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Slovenia
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What is a main reason new migrant groups to Europe challenge the traditional process of assimilation into host cultures?
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New digital technologies increase their ability to maintain strong ties to their homeland
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Where is the Jewish Pale?
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Eastern Europe
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Which European country was NOT one of the "Allies" during World War 2?
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Germany
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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?
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buffer zone
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What do the letters in NATO stand for?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Which part of Europe is the region's unquestionable focus of intensive agriculture, large cities, and major industrial activities?
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the European Lowland
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In which European country would you find fjords?
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Norway
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Europe's new lingua franca is
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English
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According to the graphic below, which of the following countries of Europe has the highest population density?
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Netherlands
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What major step did Europe take to help meet its obligation to the Kyoto Protocol?
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It started a carbon-trading scheme.
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Which country of Europe has the highest population density?
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the Netherlands
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Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia were part of the former
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Yugoslavia
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In which country of Europe has conflict between Catholics and Protestants been a problem?
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Northern Ireland
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four seas that encircle Europe?
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Caspian Sea
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As their first language, 90% of Europe's population speak languages from what three groups?
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Germanic, Romance, Slavic
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In what part of Europe is Protestantism the dominant religion?
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All of the answer choices are correct
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Which of the following is NOT a source of Europe's environmental problems?
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a major nuclear accident in 1994
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Immigrant refugees seeking political amnesty mainly come from all of these countries EXCEPT
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Israel
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How many countries does Europe contain?
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42
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Germany's population includes a large number of guest workers (and their descendants) from which country of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
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Turkey
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What kind of organization is the European Union?
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a supranational organization working toward economic, political, and cultural integration in Europe
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Benefits of family-friendly policies include all of the following EXCEPT
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fully paid nanny services using immigrant labor
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Which country of Europe has the region's largest numbers of Muslims?
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Germany
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Which European Romance language contains many Slavic words?
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Romanian
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In 1967, what city became the first to enact cultural landscape regulations?
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Salzburg
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What country emits the most pollutants each year?
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Germany
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What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?
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the euro
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Which of the following European countries was a member of the now-defunct Warsaw Pact alliance?
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Poland
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Today, Europe has just under how many million Protestants
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100
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When did the Industrial Revolution emerge?
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from 1730-1850
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"One of narrow, winding sreets, crowded with three- or four- story masonry buildings with little setback from the street." This describes which of the following?
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the medieval landscape
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According to the graphic below, which of the following are the two language subfamilies found in the British Isles?
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Celtic and Germanic
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What is the approximate population of Europe?
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530 million
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the states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were established by
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the Treaty of Versailles
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What country has Europe's highest long-term unemployment?
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Greece
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What are the current impacts of climate change in Europe?
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A, B, and C above
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According to the graphic below, which of the following cities is located in the area with the highest population densities?
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Cologne
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In Europe, with what type of feature are the names of Rhine, Loire, Thames, Danube, and Elbe associated?
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rivers
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Besides the division between western and eastern churches, the other great split within Christianity occurred between
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Catholicism and Protestantism
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The term ______ is used to describe the geopolitical processes of mall scale independence movements based upon ethnic fault lines.
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balkanization
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How many countries make up the European Union (EU)?
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27
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Which country of Europe is most likely to experience drought?
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Portugal
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What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s?
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the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Why have many European countries encouraged immigration of foreign populations into their borders in the recent past?
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they were experiencing low or negative growth, needed immigrants to fill gaps in their labor force
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One of the major characteristics of Europe's population and settlement patterns is its high level of
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urbanization
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What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet?
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Alps
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What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
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Pyrenees
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What was the metaphorical name given to the policy of separation that divided Europe into two separate geopolitical and economic blocs after World War 2?
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Iron Curtain
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Which of the following factors does NOT explain the environmental diversity of Europe?
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El Niño
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What has been an important source of conflict in Northern Ireland?
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The Catholic minority feel that the Protestant majority has discriminated against them.
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What was the Cold War?
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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
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Economic cooperation in Western Europe at the end of World War 2 centered on what commodity (commodities)?
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coal and steel
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Hoe does the environment of Eastern Europe compare to that of Western Europe?
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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.
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Which country of Europe is primarily located on the European Lowland?
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Netherlands
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Most of Italy's older industrial areas can be found
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in the Po River Valley
