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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. Payment for damages
Welfare States
Environmentalists
Renaissance
Reparations
2. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Feudalism
Loess
Organic Farming
Global Warming
3. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Global Warming
Loess
Feudalism
Industrial Capitalism
4. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
European Union
Guest Workers
Heavy Industry
Global Warming
5. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Maastricht Treaty
Enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
Organic Farming
6. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Genetically Modified Foods
Foehns
City-States
Industrial Revolution
7. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Industrial Revolution
European Union
Environmentalists
Acid Deposition
8. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Northern European Plain
Environmentalists
Genetically Modified Foods
Balkanization
9. The result of melting snow and ice
European Union
Welfare States
Meltwater
Glaciation
10. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Polders
Acid Rain
Paris
Foehns
11. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Polders
Realism
Immigrant
Global Warming
12. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Romanticism
Communism
Fjords
Reformation
13. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Cold War
Global Warming
Communism
Genetically Modified Foods
14. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Realism
Reformation
Loess
Light Industry
15. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Fjords
Light Industry
Feudalism
Welfare States
16. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Maastricht Treaty
Dry Farming
Acid Rain
Industrial Revolution
17. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Crusades
Enlightenment
Avalanches
Impressionists
18. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Dry Farming
Holocaust
Mistral
19. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Acid Rain
Guest Workers
Realism
Dikes
20. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Maastricht Treaty
Reformation
Mixed Farming
Brussels
21. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Permafrost
Meltwater
Northern European Plain
22. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Genetically Modified Foods
Acid Rain
Alps
Mixed Farming
23. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Light Industry
Guest Workers
Global Warming
Acid Deposition
24. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Middle Ages
Avalanches
Reparations
25. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Light Industry
Dikes
Farm Cooperatives
Impressionists
26. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Impressionists
Cold War
Communism
Refugees
27. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Renaissance
City-States
Polders
Foehns
28. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Heavy Industry
Balkanization
Alps
Global Warming
29. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Crusades
Dry Farming
Global Warming
Cold War
30. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Balkanization
Renaissance
European Union
Acid Deposition
31. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Mistral
Feudalism
Avalanches
Welfare States
32. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Permafrost
Balkanization
Light Industry
Middle Ages
33. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Crusades
Mixed Farming
Reparations
34. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Ethnic Cleansing
Mixed Farming
Feudalism
Fjords
35. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Impressionists
Dikes
Immigrant
Communism
36. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Environmentalists
Loess
Renaissance
Realism
37. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Light Industry
Permafrost
Impressionists
Avalanches
38. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Balkanization
Impressionists
Paris
Siroccos
39. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Holocaust
Ethnic Cleansing
Feudalism
Immigrant
40. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Dry Farming
Mixed Farming
Organic Farming
Siroccos
41. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Mistral
Ethnic Cleansing
Fjords
Renaissance
42. Separate communites
Permafrost
City-States
Industrial Revolution
Avalanches
43. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Fjords
Cold War
Glaciation
Brussels
44. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Dikes
City-States
City-States
Siroccos
45. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Polders
Northern European Plain
Dikes
Timberline
46. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Fjords
Realism
Acid Rain
Industrial Capitalism
47. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Polders
Guest Workers
Global Warming
Crusades
48. A movement to value reason and question tradition
European Union
Mixed Farming
Enlightenment
Environmentalists
49. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Polders
Paris
Timberline
Acid Deposition
50. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Crusades
European Union
Glaciation
Loess