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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Farm Cooperatives
Acid Deposition
European Union
Foehns
2. France's capital
Mixed Farming
Romanticism
Guest Workers
Paris
3. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Polders
Light Industry
Mistral
Genetically Modified Foods
4. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Guest Workers
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Capitalism
Farm Cooperatives
5. France's capital
Dikes
Timberline
Paris
Cold War
6. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Permafrost
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Dry Farming
7. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Holocaust
Foehns
Northern European Plain
Avalanches
8. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Timberline
Guest Workers
Farm Cooperatives
Light Industry
9. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Immigrant
Paris
Genetically Modified Foods
Polders
10. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Northern European Plain
Timberline
Reparations
Holocaust
11. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Maastricht Treaty
Industrial Capitalism
Foehns
Siroccos
12. People who flee to another country for safety
European Union
Balkanization
Dikes
Refugees
13. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Cold War
Dikes
Guest Workers
Acid Deposition
14. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Acid Rain
City-States
Immigrant
Brussels
15. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Welfare States
Impressionists
Timberline
Genetically Modified Foods
16. Large banks of earth and stone
Dikes
Reformation
Loess
Acid Rain
17. Large banks of earth and stone
Realism
Heavy Industry
Reformation
Dikes
18. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Brussels
Glaciation
Middle Ages
City-States
19. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Enlightenment
Guest Workers
Romanticism
Siroccos
20. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Impressionists
Brussels
Communism
Feudalism
21. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Crusades
Welfare States
Mistral
Mixed Farming
22. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Organic Farming
Northern European Plain
Industrial Capitalism
23. Also known as the Great European Plain
Maastricht Treaty
Polders
Northern European Plain
Paris
24. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Acid Rain
Siroccos
Immigrant
Impressionists
25. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Alps
Reparations
Dikes
Reparations
26. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Northern European Plain
Enlightenment
Guest Workers
Organic Farming
27. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Renaissance
Maastricht Treaty
Fjords
Genetically Modified Foods
28. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Middle Ages
Ethnic Cleansing
Guest Workers
Crusades
29. Also known as the Great European Plain
Alps
Farm Cooperatives
Environmentalists
Northern European Plain
30. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Reparations
Avalanches
Global Warming
Renaissance
31. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Renaissance
Feudalism
Permafrost
Industrial Capitalism
32. Payment for damages
Refugees
Polders
Reparations
Loess
33. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Global Warming
Holocaust
Alps
Crusades
34. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Reformation
Maastricht Treaty
Impressionists
Guest Workers
35. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Immigrant
Dikes
Cold War
36. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Refugees
Avalanches
Guest Workers
Enlightenment
37. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
European Union
Reformation
City-States
Communism
38. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Romanticism
Environmentalists
Middle Ages
Dikes
39. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Acid Deposition
Feudalism
Fjords
Realism
40. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Crusades
Feudalism
Northern European Plain
European Union
41. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Romanticism
Loess
Light Industry
City-States
42. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Polders
Farm Cooperatives
Impressionists
European Union
43. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Light Industry
Organic Farming
Mistral
Loess
44. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Global Warming
Glaciation
45. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Foehns
Reformation
Global Warming
Ethnic Cleansing
46. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Acid Deposition
Fjords
Industrial Revolution
Timberline
47. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Reformation
Dikes
Refugees
Crusades
48. People who flee to another country for safety
Industrial Capitalism
Dry Farming
Communism
Refugees
49. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Loess
Reformation
Acid Rain
Middle Ages
50. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Welfare States
Loess
Timberline