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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Also known as the Great European Plain
Avalanches
Northern European Plain
Foehns
Heavy Industry
2. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Holocaust
Mixed Farming
Refugees
Glaciation
3. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Industrial Capitalism
Industrial Revolution
Loess
Middle Ages
4. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Holocaust
Acid Rain
Heavy Industry
Foehns
5. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Acid Deposition
Foehns
Northern European Plain
Alps
6. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Foehns
Genetically Modified Foods
Light Industry
Paris
7. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Holocaust
Global Warming
Loess
European Union
8. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Balkanization
Maastricht Treaty
Industrial Capitalism
Welfare States
9. Separate communites
City-States
Crusades
Acid Deposition
Dikes
10. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Farm Cooperatives
Holocaust
Ethnic Cleansing
Romanticism
11. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Light Industry
Dry Farming
Impressionists
Welfare States
12. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Reparations
Cold War
Cold War
Immigrant
13. Payment for damages
Reparations
Enlightenment
Meltwater
Polders
14. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Meltwater
Immigrant
Balkanization
Avalanches
15. People who flee to another country for safety
Industrial Capitalism
Refugees
Meltwater
Dikes
16. Treaty which set up the European Union
Timberline
Maastricht Treaty
Refugees
Realism
17. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Realism
Siroccos
Heavy Industry
Middle Ages
18. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Impressionists
Global Warming
Acid Deposition
Reformation
19. France's capital
Dry Farming
Romanticism
Reparations
Paris
20. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Middle Ages
Feudalism
Northern European Plain
Romanticism
21. People concerned with the quality of the environment
European Union
Environmentalists
Loess
Immigrant
22. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Heavy Industry
City-States
Timberline
Renaissance
23. The result of melting snow and ice
Meltwater
Polders
Paris
Ethnic Cleansing
24. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Foehns
Farm Cooperatives
Immigrant
Middle Ages
25. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Environmentalists
Guest Workers
Dikes
Permafrost
26. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Global Warming
Fjords
Glaciation
Romanticism
27. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Alps
Avalanches
Glaciation
28. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Global Warming
Siroccos
Organic Farming
Heavy Industry
29. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Middle Ages
Acid Deposition
Alps
Ethnic Cleansing
30. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Cold War
Acid Rain
Renaissance
Mixed Farming
31. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Acid Deposition
Meltwater
Balkanization
32. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Realism
Global Warming
Mistral
City-States
33. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Fjords
Feudalism
Reparations
Cold War
34. Treaty which set up the European Union
Immigrant
Refugees
Timberline
Maastricht Treaty
35. A strong north word from the Alps
Genetically Modified Foods
Mistral
Siroccos
City-States
36. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Organic Farming
Crusades
European Union
Realism
37. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Guest Workers
Impressionists
Industrial Capitalism
38. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Romanticism
Holocaust
Mixed Farming
Light Industry
39. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Brussels
Light Industry
Permafrost
Polders
40. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Mistral
Foehns
Dry Farming
Polders
41. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Alps
Timberline
Loess
Reformation
42. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Organic Farming
Industrial Revolution
43. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Dikes
Siroccos
Foehns
Communism
44. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Reparations
Welfare States
Feudalism
Refugees
45. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Avalanches
Mixed Farming
Middle Ages
Heavy Industry
46. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Alps
Renaissance
Environmentalists
Glaciation
47. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Siroccos
Impressionists
Mistral
Global Warming
48. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Fjords
Glaciation
Acid Deposition
Feudalism
49. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Cold War
Glaciation
Paris
Timberline
50. Payment for damages
Loess
Reparations
Meltwater
Avalanches