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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Refugees
Immigrant
Cold War
Glaciation
2. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Polders
Global Warming
Mixed Farming
3. Separate communites
Industrial Capitalism
City-States
Romanticism
Fjords
4. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Mistral
Brussels
Feudalism
Industrial Revolution
5. Also known as the Great European Plain
Northern European Plain
Polders
Communism
Romanticism
6. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Industrial Capitalism
Foehns
Glaciation
Realism
7. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Organic Farming
Fjords
Mixed Farming
Feudalism
8. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Industrial Capitalism
Fjords
Ethnic Cleansing
Acid Rain
9. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Brussels
Enlightenment
Feudalism
Fjords
10. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Feudalism
Fjords
Holocaust
Alps
11. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Brussels
Foehns
Industrial Revolution
Cold War
12. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Global Warming
Dry Farming
Avalanches
Light Industry
13. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Holocaust
Genetically Modified Foods
Guest Workers
Fjords
14. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Reformation
Genetically Modified Foods
Dikes
Reparations
15. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Ethnic Cleansing
Heavy Industry
Loess
Foehns
16. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Impressionists
Environmentalists
Guest Workers
17. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Industrial Revolution
Crusades
Industrial Capitalism
18. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Reformation
Balkanization
Meltwater
Permafrost
19. A strong north word from the Alps
Cold War
Holocaust
Foehns
Mistral
20. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Mixed Farming
Brussels
Paris
Acid Rain
21. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Cold War
Global Warming
Avalanches
Paris
22. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Refugees
Acid Rain
Guest Workers
Reformation
23. The result of melting snow and ice
Heavy Industry
Meltwater
Holocaust
Polders
24. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Dry Farming
Ethnic Cleansing
Balkanization
Cold War
25. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Renaissance
Acid Deposition
Glaciation
Immigrant
26. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Polders
Alps
Paris
27. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Foehns
European Union
Feudalism
Crusades
28. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Heavy Industry
Paris
Northern European Plain
Cold War
29. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Alps
Romanticism
Light Industry
Middle Ages
30. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Mixed Farming
Industrial Capitalism
Feudalism
City-States
31. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union
Ethnic Cleansing
Cold War
Loess
32. Payment for damages
Brussels
Reparations
Global Warming
Global Warming
33. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Balkanization
Environmentalists
Ethnic Cleansing
Mixed Farming
34. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Dry Farming
Industrial Revolution
Realism
Acid Deposition
35. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Realism
Dry Farming
Welfare States
Organic Farming
36. Large banks of earth and stone
Dikes
Guest Workers
Ethnic Cleansing
Acid Deposition
37. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Industrial Capitalism
Meltwater
Dikes
Permafrost
38. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
European Union
Paris
Timberline
Dry Farming
39. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Cold War
Ethnic Cleansing
Siroccos
40. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Welfare States
Acid Rain
Renaissance
Cold War
41. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Mixed Farming
Meltwater
Romanticism
42. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Polders
Brussels
Timberline
Organic Farming
43. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Balkanization
Holocaust
Polders
Industrial Revolution
44. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Polders
Genetically Modified Foods
Industrial Capitalism
Holocaust
45. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Timberline
Mixed Farming
Polders
Balkanization
46. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Realism
Balkanization
Siroccos
Communism
47. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Siroccos
Romanticism
Acid Deposition
48. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Welfare States
Loess
Brussels
Heavy Industry
49. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Environmentalists
Mixed Farming
Loess
Farm Cooperatives
50. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Farm Cooperatives
Welfare States
Middle Ages
Heavy Industry