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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. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Balkanization
Refugees
Reformation
Siroccos
2. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Fjords
Immigrant
Farm Cooperatives
Cold War
3. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Global Warming
Acid Rain
Farm Cooperatives
Reformation
4. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Guest Workers
Glaciation
Brussels
Reformation
5. Separate communites
Northern European Plain
Industrial Capitalism
Timberline
City-States
6. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Reformation
Mixed Farming
Fjords
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
Northern European Plain
Global Warming
Acid Deposition
Fjords
8. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Mistral
Timberline
Ethnic Cleansing
Loess
9. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Balkanization
Cold War
Acid Deposition
Crusades
10. Large banks of earth and stone
Dry Farming
Refugees
Dikes
Permafrost
11. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Ethnic Cleansing
Siroccos
Balkanization
Welfare States
12. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Refugees
Mixed Farming
Foehns
Industrial Capitalism
13. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Avalanches
Impressionists
Realism
Dry Farming
14. Separate communites
Light Industry
European Union
Brussels
City-States
15. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Industrial Revolution
European Union
Balkanization
Immigrant
16. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Dikes
Permafrost
Realism
Permafrost
17. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Paris
Farm Cooperatives
Realism
Environmentalists
18. People who flee to another country for safety
Mistral
Ethnic Cleansing
Refugees
Mixed Farming
19. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Genetically Modified Foods
Dikes
Immigrant
Siroccos
20. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Middle Ages
Siroccos
Holocaust
Heavy Industry
21. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Meltwater
Alps
Brussels
Feudalism
22. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Light Industry
Balkanization
Middle Ages
23. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Renaissance
Guest Workers
Mixed Farming
Acid Deposition
24. Also known as the Great European Plain
Northern European Plain
Crusades
Reformation
Realism
25. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Heavy Industry
Feudalism
Realism
Timberline
26. Payment for damages
Immigrant
Timberline
Reparations
Acid Deposition
27. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Immigrant
Siroccos
Welfare States
Brussels
28. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Alps
Crusades
Avalanches
Maastricht Treaty
29. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Middle Ages
Guest Workers
Timberline
Impressionists
30. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Mixed Farming
Northern European Plain
Farm Cooperatives
Guest Workers
31. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Refugees
Avalanches
Mixed Farming
Cold War
32. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Heavy Industry
Acid Rain
City-States
33. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Romanticism
Fjords
Alps
Industrial Capitalism
34. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Meltwater
Crusades
Loess
Communism
35. Large banks of earth and stone
Communism
Dikes
Reparations
Balkanization
36. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Alps
Romanticism
Polders
Holocaust
37. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Glaciation
Dry Farming
Enlightenment
Farm Cooperatives
38. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Balkanization
Permafrost
Northern European Plain
Organic Farming
39. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Glaciation
Realism
Reformation
Welfare States
40. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Avalanches
Global Warming
Welfare States
Industrial Capitalism
41. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Polders
Heavy Industry
Acid Rain
Realism
42. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Welfare States
Refugees
Guest Workers
Light Industry
43. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Avalanches
Loess
European Union
Timberline
44. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Feudalism
Impressionists
Ethnic Cleansing
Welfare States
45. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Reparations
Acid Deposition
Romanticism
Loess
46. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Foehns
Genetically Modified Foods
Fjords
Immigrant
47. Treaty which set up the European Union
Feudalism
Maastricht Treaty
Alps
Heavy Industry
48. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Heavy Industry
Holocaust
Avalanches
Balkanization
49. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Industrial Capitalism
Reparations
Welfare States
Light Industry
50. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Holocaust
Siroccos
Loess