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World Cultures Europe
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Holocaust
Environmentalists
Reparations
Organic Farming
2. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Dikes
Immigrant
Realism
Renaissance
3. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Acid Deposition
City-States
Organic Farming
Timberline
4. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Holocaust
Enlightenment
Dry Farming
5. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Acid Deposition
Cold War
Fjords
Meltwater
6. Treaty which set up the European Union
Holocaust
Meltwater
Enlightenment
Maastricht Treaty
7. The result of melting snow and ice
Meltwater
Romanticism
Siroccos
Brussels
8. France's capital
Cold War
Maastricht Treaty
Paris
Enlightenment
9. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Global Warming
Crusades
Enlightenment
Foehns
10. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Siroccos
Light Industry
Farm Cooperatives
11. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Light Industry
Acid Deposition
Avalanches
Environmentalists
12. Large banks of earth and stone
Holocaust
Dikes
Genetically Modified Foods
Acid Rain
13. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Impressionists
Global Warming
Global Warming
Polders
14. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Balkanization
Brussels
Mixed Farming
Dry Farming
15. Payment for damages
Light Industry
Siroccos
Reparations
Balkanization
16. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Crusades
Genetically Modified Foods
Dry Farming
Global Warming
17. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Siroccos
Maastricht Treaty
Light Industry
Permafrost
18. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Polders
Romanticism
Communism
Welfare States
19. Also known as the Great European Plain
Foehns
Organic Farming
Romanticism
Northern European Plain
20. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Brussels
Reparations
Enlightenment
Global Warming
21. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Renaissance
Organic Farming
Farm Cooperatives
Acid Rain
22. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Mixed Farming
Fjords
Environmentalists
Global Warming
23. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Renaissance
Industrial Capitalism
Reparations
Avalanches
24. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Realism
City-States
25. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Industrial Capitalism
Crusades
Industrial Revolution
Light Industry
26. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Crusades
Organic Farming
Global Warming
Romanticism
27. People who flee to another country for safety
European Union
Impressionists
Acid Deposition
Refugees
28. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Alps
Balkanization
Global Warming
Crusades
29. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Holocaust
Maastricht Treaty
Reparations
Dikes
30. Expelling or killing rival ethnic groups in an area
Avalanches
Ethnic Cleansing
Fjords
Foehns
31. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Enlightenment
Enlightenment
Organic Farming
Crusades
32. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Ethnic Cleansing
Permafrost
Feudalism
Dry Farming
33. People who flee to another country for safety
Immigrant
Refugees
Industrial Capitalism
Light Industry
34. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Reformation
Impressionists
Northern European Plain
Industrial Capitalism
35. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Guest Workers
Acid Deposition
Impressionists
Organic Farming
36. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Organic Farming
Dry Farming
Reformation
Maastricht Treaty
37. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Glaciation
Reparations
Maastricht Treaty
38. Separate communites
European Union
Mixed Farming
City-States
Farm Cooperatives
39. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Glaciation
Balkanization
Meltwater
Fjords
40. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Maastricht Treaty
Siroccos
Impressionists
Glaciation
41. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Dikes
Paris
Glaciation
Northern European Plain
42. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Environmentalists
Guest Workers
Permafrost
Polders
43. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Refugees
Genetically Modified Foods
Acid Rain
Environmentalists
44. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Acid Deposition
Industrial Capitalism
Avalanches
Alps
45. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Dry Farming
European Union
Balkanization
Loess
46. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Polders
Fjords
Cold War
Mixed Farming
47. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Enlightenment
Acid Rain
Crusades
Acid Deposition
48. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Foehns
Immigrant
Realism
Heavy Industry
49. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Immigrant
Refugees
Farm Cooperatives
Enlightenment
50. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Industrial Revolution
Meltwater
Heavy Industry
Welfare States