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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Impressionists
Romanticism
Permafrost
Light Industry
2. France's capital
Guest Workers
Timberline
Impressionists
Paris
3. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Communism
Dry Farming
Impressionists
Fjords
4. The result of melting snow and ice
City-States
Mixed Farming
Polders
Meltwater
5. Separate communites
Middle Ages
City-States
Crusades
Environmentalists
6. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Cold War
Impressionists
Permafrost
Light Industry
7. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Immigrant
Farm Cooperatives
Industrial Capitalism
Loess
8. Large banks of earth and stone
Crusades
Dikes
Renaissance
Timberline
9. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Industrial Capitalism
Welfare States
Acid Rain
Foehns
10. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Glaciation
Industrial Capitalism
Fjords
Immigrant
11. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Guest Workers
Environmentalists
Permafrost
Mistral
12. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Foehns
Mixed Farming
Dikes
European Union
13. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Middle Ages
Maastricht Treaty
Balkanization
Dry Farming
14. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Meltwater
Dikes
Farm Cooperatives
15. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Welfare States
Dry Farming
Polders
Alps
16. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Impressionists
Polders
Holocaust
Glaciation
17. Large banks of earth and stone
Dikes
Enlightenment
Alps
Communism
18. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Romanticism
Holocaust
Reparations
Fjords
19. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Guest Workers
Fjords
Fjords
Polders
20. Separate communites
Acid Deposition
Guest Workers
Balkanization
City-States
21. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Northern European Plain
Middle Ages
Balkanization
Farm Cooperatives
22. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Mistral
Guest Workers
Impressionists
Crusades
23. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Middle Ages
Polders
Dry Farming
Industrial Capitalism
24. Also known as the Great European Plain
Glaciation
Alps
Northern European Plain
Reformation
25. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Feudalism
Romanticism
Crusades
Maastricht Treaty
26. Treaty which set up the European Union
Brussels
Feudalism
Permafrost
Maastricht Treaty
27. People who flee to another country for safety
Crusades
Loess
Refugees
Dikes
28. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Refugees
Middle Ages
Holocaust
Polders
29. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Alps
Immigrant
Balkanization
Refugees
30. Treaty which set up the European Union
Alps
Romanticism
Maastricht Treaty
Heavy Industry
31. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Refugees
Acid Deposition
Fjords
European Union
32. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Heavy Industry
Communism
Polders
Industrial Revolution
33. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Industrial Revolution
Balkanization
Reparations
Enlightenment
34. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Balkanization
Cold War
Industrial Capitalism
Romanticism
35. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Maastricht Treaty
Acid Deposition
Acid Rain
36. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Northern European Plain
Industrial Capitalism
Guest Workers
37. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Cold War
Industrial Revolution
European Union
Northern European Plain
38. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Renaissance
Genetically Modified Foods
Middle Ages
Refugees
39. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Renaissance
Immigrant
Industrial Revolution
Romanticism
40. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Permafrost
European Union
Global Warming
Maastricht Treaty
41. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Light Industry
Feudalism
Acid Rain
42. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Ethnic Cleansing
Realism
Avalanches
Light Industry
43. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Northern European Plain
Avalanches
Environmentalists
Refugees
44. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Guest Workers
Balkanization
Refugees
Siroccos
45. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Polders
Acid Deposition
Heavy Industry
Dikes
46. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Maastricht Treaty
Siroccos
Northern European Plain
Loess
47. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Meltwater
Meltwater
Impressionists
Communism
48. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Siroccos
Romanticism
Mistral
Loess
49. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Acid Rain
Polders
Industrial Revolution
Welfare States
50. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Loess
Communism
Balkanization
Romanticism