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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. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Acid Rain
Reformation
Enlightenment
Guest Workers
2. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Acid Deposition
Realism
Middle Ages
Feudalism
3. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Romanticism
Light Industry
Guest Workers
Industrial Revolution
4. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Crusades
Heavy Industry
Reformation
Organic Farming
5. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Romanticism
Dikes
Polders
Dikes
6. Also known as the Great European Plain
Alps
Northern European Plain
Timberline
Fjords
7. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Brussels
Timberline
Welfare States
Global Warming
8. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Welfare States
Timberline
Cold War
Realism
9. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Communism
Glaciation
Acid Deposition
Heavy Industry
10. Also known as the Great European Plain
Acid Rain
Communism
Farm Cooperatives
Northern European Plain
11. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Light Industry
Acid Rain
Industrial Revolution
Permafrost
12. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Loess
Acid Deposition
Alps
Timberline
13. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Siroccos
Cold War
Fjords
Mixed Farming
14. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Immigrant
Environmentalists
Reformation
Mixed Farming
15. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Genetically Modified Foods
Ethnic Cleansing
Reparations
Timberline
16. A strong north word from the Alps
Enlightenment
Mixed Farming
Mistral
Paris
17. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Refugees
Avalanches
Farm Cooperatives
European Union
18. France's capital
Industrial Revolution
Mistral
Fjords
Paris
19. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Foehns
Northern European Plain
Meltwater
Mixed Farming
20. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Industrial Capitalism
Communism
Foehns
City-States
21. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Farm Cooperatives
Dry Farming
Mixed Farming
Acid Deposition
22. Treaty which set up the European Union
Polders
Cold War
Maastricht Treaty
Foehns
23. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Avalanches
City-States
Immigrant
Polders
24. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Brussels
Polders
Mistral
Holocaust
25. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Genetically Modified Foods
Timberline
Reformation
Light Industry
26. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Foehns
Loess
Farm Cooperatives
Acid Deposition
27. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Organic Farming
Fjords
Genetically Modified Foods
Heavy Industry
28. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Siroccos
Guest Workers
Loess
European Union
29. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Welfare States
Timberline
City-States
Impressionists
30. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Realism
Acid Rain
Brussels
31. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Polders
Cold War
Holocaust
European Union
32. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Romanticism
Reparations
Renaissance
33. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Glaciation
Genetically Modified Foods
Balkanization
Holocaust
34. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Guest Workers
Industrial Capitalism
Acid Deposition
Romanticism
35. The result of melting snow and ice
Alps
Siroccos
Welfare States
Meltwater
36. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Industrial Revolution
Loess
Polders
City-States
37. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Mistral
Industrial Revolution
Welfare States
Meltwater
38. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Maastricht Treaty
Welfare States
Immigrant
Light Industry
39. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Industrial Revolution
Crusades
Acid Rain
Cold War
40. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Heavy Industry
Genetically Modified Foods
Foehns
Industrial Capitalism
41. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Environmentalists
Feudalism
Acid Deposition
Dikes
42. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Dikes
Glaciation
Acid Rain
43. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Alps
Polders
Farm Cooperatives
Brussels
44. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Balkanization
Brussels
Permafrost
Dry Farming
45. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Realism
Glaciation
Genetically Modified Foods
Immigrant
46. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Siroccos
Acid Rain
Meltwater
Heavy Industry
47. Separate communites
Alps
European Union
Fjords
City-States
48. Separate communites
Foehns
Middle Ages
City-States
Immigrant
49. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Crusades
Avalanches
Acid Rain
Reformation
50. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Fjords
Dry Farming
Holocaust
Holocaust