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The following are statements describing the demographic and economic conditions which may be generally ascribed to the European Realm.

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Levels of economic development in Europe decline from east to west.

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Europe's relative location:

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is one of centrality within the land hemisphere

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Continentality refers to:

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more extreme climates located inland

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The major chain of mountains in Europe is referred to as the:

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Alpines

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Which of the following is not in the Western Uplands?

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Switzerland

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The landform region predominating in the area to the north of the Alpine chain is the:

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Central Uplands

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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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Such things as roads, railroads and ports are best defined as

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infrastructure

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

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areal functional specialization

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The emergence of modern Europe after the Dark Ages is known as the:

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Renaissance

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Which of the following was not an objective of mercantilism?

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establishing Christianity throughout the world

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The innermost land use ring of the von Thünen Model contains:

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intensive farming and dairying

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Which of the following is not a feature of the original Isolated State Model?

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the need for constant territorial growth of producing areas

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Von Thünen in his "Isolated State" argued that five belts 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 agriculture and dairying

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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 drive engines emerged

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The economic geographer Alfred Weber is known for his contribution of:

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a set of principles governing the location of industry

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Forces which concentrate particular industries in particular locations are:

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agglomerative

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Europe's political revolution:

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began in the 1780s with the French Revolution

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Which of the following events occurred within the ten years following the onset of the French Revolution (1789)?

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the downfall of France's monarchy, the establishment of the French nation-state, the emergence of Napoleon as the leader of France and the founding of Paris

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__________ forces tie a nation together.

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Centripetal

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__________ forces are divisive to a nation.

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Centrifugal

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Which of the following is the strongest example of a European nation-state?

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Poland

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Which of the following states is unilingual in that it possesses a single language spoken throughout its territory

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Austria

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Which of the following languages is not a Slavic language?

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Romanian

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Complementarity deals with the fact that commodity flows between A and B depend upon:

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a surplus of a commodity at place A and a deficit of the commodity at place B

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The spatial interaction principle of complementarity:

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describes trade in which one area specifically needs the surplus commodity of another area

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An example of an intervening opportunity is:

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Florida is an intervening opportunity for vacationers from New York considering a vacation in California

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Which of the following is not a relatively recent example of European transportation improvements?

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magnetic levitation trains

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

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primate city

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Which of the following capital cities is not a primate city?

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Bern

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The downtown area of a city is known as the:

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Central Business District

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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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Which of the following is not an area of previous or potential devolution?

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southern Sweden

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Which of the following is not one of the four Motors of Europe?

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Tirane (Albania)

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A Euroregion:

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is a formal territorial entity straddling one of Europe's traditional international boundaries

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The US plan to aid Europe after World War II was known as the _______ Plan.

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Marshall

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

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the solidarity labor movement

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The voluntary association of three or more countries is known as:

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supranationalism

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European supranationalism all began with:

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Benelux

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The major competition to the original European Common Market was:

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EFTA

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The major factor keeping Eastern European countries out of the European Union is:

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under the rules of the EU, richer countries must subsidize poorer countries

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The Common Market evolved into the European Community. It is being replaced by:

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the European Union

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The Treaty on European Unity was signed at:

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Maastricht

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A country that was divided into two political units after World War II was:

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Germany

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_______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically.

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Germany

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Which of the following is not a historically German industrial area?

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Po River Basin

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The Ruhr industrial complex is linked via the Rhine River to:

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Rotterdam

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Most foreign workers in Germany are of _________origin.

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Turkish

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The major river in 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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Germany is divided into subdistricts called:

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landers

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The current population of Germany is in excess of:

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80 million

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A city in Germany benefitting from the restoration of its hinterland as a result of the reunification of Germany is:

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Hamburg

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German reunification:

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occurred in 1990, has led to a country with 16 lander, made the Poles uneasy because of the territory Germany lost to Poland after WW II, and made the UK and France uneasy because of German economic power

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German reunification:

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united Wessies with Ossies, united the East's 17 million population with that in the West, has led to some problems as some westerners have resented additional taxes to help the East, and has yet to bring the standard of living in the East to the levels in the West

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The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is:

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France

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Which of the following statements is false?

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France has better harbors than does Germany

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France is divided into regions called:

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regions

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Which of the following rivers does not flow through French territory?

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the Danube

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Which of the following statements is true?

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Paris initially benefitted from an excellent site., Paris initially benefitted from an excellent situation.

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Which of the following is not a major French industry?

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Aluminum

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_______ is a country which has continued to maintain a network of colonies and to take an intense interest in former colonies.

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France

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Benelux refers to:

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the Low Countries of Western Europe

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Which of the following countries is not a signatory of the Benelux Agreement?

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Liechtenstein

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The administrative headquarters for the European Union and NATO is:

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Brussels

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Lands reclaimed from the sea are known as:

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polders

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The Randstad is comprised of:

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Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague

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Europe's busiest port, the shipping gateway for the Rhine and the Meuse Rivers is:

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Rotterdam

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Which of the following European countries is landlocked?

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Switzerland

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Europe may be delineated as a region due to its cultural homogeneity.

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False

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Austria is multilingual and Switzerland is unilingual.

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False

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The European country that has purported to practice strict neutrality is:

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Switzerland

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The easternmost city of Western Europe is:

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Vienna

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

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Switzerland

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Which of the following is not a portion of the United Kingdom?

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Republic of Ireland

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The United Kingdom was often protected from European wars by the:

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English Channel

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

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North Sea

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In Scotland:

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oil and gas have become major industries, a feeling of nationalism is developing, an important shipbuilding industry exists, and there are about 5 million people

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Which of the following is not a region of the United Kingdom

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Ireland

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The must rugged part of the United Kingdom is:

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Wales

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An important coal mining area that has been ravaged by strip mines is

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Wales

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The major conurbation of London lies within which of the following regions?

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Affluent Southern England

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More than half of the population of Northern Ireland trace their ancestry to:

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Scotland or England

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The population of Northern Ireland:

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is dominated by Protestants

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A European country that has declined in population over the past centuries is:

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Ireland

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As of 1998, the situation in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants:

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had reached the point where an agreement to end the conflict had been negotiated

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The decline in population in the Republic of Ireland is in part due to:

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the potato famine

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Norden:

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has a largely inhospitable northern climate

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The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

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true

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Northern England has both the major industrial areas and the majority of England's good agricultural land.

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false

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Transferability is an interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places

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true

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Italy's economic core area, no longer focused on Rome, is today located in__________.

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Lombardy or Po River

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The Tyrrhenian Sea lies between:

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Sardinia and Italy

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

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Milan-Turin-Genoa

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Southern Italy is known as the:

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Mezzogiorno

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Which country has the greatest potential for hydroelectric power?

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Italy

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Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the:

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Anacona Line

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The southern part of Italy is to be helped by the discovery of:

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oil

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The northeastern corner of Ireland was a haven for English and Scottish Catholics and remained under British control

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false

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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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Von Thunen's Isolated State

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Concentric circle around city level 1: Intensive farming/dairying level 2: Forest level 3: Field products level 4: Ranching and products

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Difference in centrifugal and centripetal forces

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Centrifugal: To pull apart Centripetal: To unite

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Three principles of spatial interaction

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1) Complementary 2) Transferability 3) Intervening Opportunity

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Definition of primate city:

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-Country's largest city -Twice as big as any other city in the country

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What is devolution

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The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government

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Know where (what city) the administrative headquarters for the European Union is

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Brussels

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Which Western European state that is not a member of the European Union

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Switzerland

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Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the

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North Sea

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

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Portugal

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What major city is located in Italy's core area

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milan

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

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Catalonia

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The island contested between Greece and Turkey is

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Cyprus

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Balkanization:

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the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other

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The Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland is

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Kaliningrad

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Which former Soviet Republic, with its capital at Mensk, is also called White Russia, and is still strongly linked to Moscow?

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Belarus

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When a state seeks to acquire the ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its boundary by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed:

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Irredentism

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T or 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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Understand the spatial interaction principle of transferability

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The ease with which a commodity may be transported of the capacity to move a good at a bearable cost. Rivers, Mountain Passes, Road Networks. Advances in transportation technology.

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Understand the Law of the Primate City.

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2x the size of any other city

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The Soviet Union consisted of _____________ Soviet Socialist Republics.

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15

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The former Soviet Union lasted about _____ years.

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70 years

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The term ________ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies

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Contenintality

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Weather is:

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The conditions at a specific time and place

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Climate is:

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Average weather conditions over an extended period of time

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The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and grasses) is known as:

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Tundra

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The coniferous forest vegetation on the equatorward side of the tundra is known as:

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Taiga

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frozen ground

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permafrost

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The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is called the:

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Ural

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The movement of the headquarters of the Russian Empire to St. Petersburg occurred so that the city could become a(n):

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forward capital

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Under Putin, the Russian Republics have been organized into seven:

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Federal districts

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Understand what a counties' core area is

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the heartland of a state, the largest population cluster, the most productive region, the area with the greatest centrality and accessibility; marketplace

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What was St. Petersburg previously called

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Leningrad

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The major religion in the Chechen Republic is:

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muslim

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The Russian port of ______ is kept open by warm water from the North Atlantic

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Murmansk

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The pipeline opened in 2006 between Baki (Baku) and Ceyhan carries Caspian Sea oil to a new terminal located on the:

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Mediterranian or Black Sea

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The north-south mountain range in the west-central USSR which is often regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is called

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ural mountains

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The great majority of the Russia's inhabitants are concentrated on which side of the Ural Mountains.

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west

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How much larger is Russia than the United States in area.

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2x

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The Russians, in their eastward push, even reached Alaska, but did they never entered the territory of the contiguous United States.

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they didn't reach

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Since the fall of the old communist regime, has Moscow and the central government based there become more respected by people throughout the country.

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not much respect

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T or F? The Russian Federation now contains only about 14 internal political units.

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true

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The original center of the Incan Empire was:

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Cuzco

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An altiplano is:

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a plain high in the Andes

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The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America is known as:

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Quechua

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Fazendas are coffee plantations in Brazi

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true

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The major river of Venezuela's iron-rich eastern region is the:

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Orinoco

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A growth pole is a location where a set of industries, given a start, will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding area.

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true

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