World Geography 2301 – Flashcards
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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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Pyreenes
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What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
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Pyreenes
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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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How many world wars were fought in Europe?
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2
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When did the Industrial Revolution emerge?
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from 1730-1850
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The highest and longest mountain range in Europe are the Pyrenees.
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false
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Because most European governments consider low or no population growth an economic and social liability, programs and policies have arisen to promote population growth, ranging from attempts to ban abortion and the sale of contraceptives to what are commonly called "family-friendly" policies.
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true
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The European Union is a supranational organization working toward economic, political, and cultural integration in Europe.
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true
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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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From 1945 until 1990, Europe was divided into two geopolitical and economic blocs, east and west, separated by the infamous
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iron curtain
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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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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 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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In May 1961, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal ratified a treaty that joined them together in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
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false
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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, and needed immigrants to fill gaps in their labor force.
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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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The term ________ is used to describe the geopolitical processes of small scale independence movements based upon ethnic fault lines.
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balkanization
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Western Europe has historically been less developed economically than its eastern counterpart.
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false
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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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Currently, Greece is the most insolvent member of the European Monetary Union, with Spain, Italy, Ireland, and France joining the list of troubled economies.
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true
