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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Separate communites
Industrial Capitalism
Environmentalists
Reparations
City-States
2. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Timberline
Impressionists
Acid Rain
Loess
3. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Timberline
Heavy Industry
Welfare States
Acid Rain
4. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Paris
Cold War
Glaciation
Dry Farming
5. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Guest Workers
Brussels
Fjords
6. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Organic Farming
Feudalism
Reparations
Communism
7. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Permafrost
Guest Workers
Refugees
Paris
8. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Fjords
Impressionists
Heavy Industry
Reparations
9. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Middle Ages
Enlightenment
Acid Deposition
Realism
10. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Reparations
Timberline
Global Warming
Holocaust
11. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Renaissance
Mistral
Timberline
Acid Deposition
12. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Maastricht Treaty
Glaciation
Maastricht Treaty
Fjords
13. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Realism
Acid Deposition
Siroccos
Genetically Modified Foods
14. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Fjords
Dry Farming
Timberline
Timberline
15. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Romanticism
Mistral
Northern European Plain
Realism
16. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Impressionists
Avalanches
Feudalism
Industrial Revolution
17. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Dry Farming
Acid Rain
Genetically Modified Foods
Reformation
18. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Glaciation
Brussels
Environmentalists
Mixed Farming
19. Large banks of earth and stone
Siroccos
Dikes
Heavy Industry
Permafrost
20. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Acid Rain
Permafrost
Renaissance
21. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Reparations
Industrial Revolution
Northern European Plain
Cold War
22. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Communism
Middle Ages
Welfare States
Siroccos
23. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Avalanches
Heavy Industry
Enlightenment
Holocaust
24. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Renaissance
Industrial Capitalism
Reformation
Cold War
25. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Maastricht Treaty
Fjords
Genetically Modified Foods
Enlightenment
26. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Crusades
Acid Deposition
Heavy Industry
Dikes
27. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Permafrost
Enlightenment
Foehns
Cold War
28. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Feudalism
Foehns
Reformation
City-States
29. Large banks of earth and stone
Alps
Light Industry
Dikes
Impressionists
30. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Industrial Revolution
Environmentalists
Organic Farming
Holocaust
31. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Organic Farming
Acid Rain
Global Warming
Farm Cooperatives
32. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Industrial Revolution
Foehns
Renaissance
Welfare States
33. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Timberline
Reformation
Genetically Modified Foods
Cold War
34. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Crusades
Genetically Modified Foods
Meltwater
Global Warming
35. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Immigrant
Mixed Farming
Timberline
Dry Farming
36. The result of melting snow and ice
Mistral
Meltwater
Guest Workers
Crusades
37. Also known as the Great European Plain
Environmentalists
Glaciation
Romanticism
Northern European Plain
38. Payment for damages
Alps
Impressionists
Reparations
Realism
39. Separate communites
Permafrost
Environmentalists
City-States
Acid Rain
40. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Balkanization
Industrial Capitalism
Loess
Foehns
41. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Renaissance
Maastricht Treaty
Brussels
Balkanization
42. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Immigrant
Alps
Balkanization
Alps
43. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Balkanization
Brussels
Ethnic Cleansing
Avalanches
44. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Romanticism
Enlightenment
Foehns
Heavy Industry
45. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Industrial Capitalism
Permafrost
Fjords
Refugees
46. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Immigrant
Impressionists
Permafrost
Global Warming
47. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Farm Cooperatives
European Union
Crusades
48. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Immigrant
Holocaust
Fjords
Avalanches
49. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Ethnic Cleansing
Mixed Farming
Organic Farming
Industrial Capitalism
50. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Balkanization
Industrial Revolution
Cold War
Light Industry