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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. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Balkanization
Avalanches
Timberline
Enlightenment
2. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Meltwater
Balkanization
Organic Farming
Fjords
3. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Industrial Capitalism
Environmentalists
Reparations
City-States
4. Treaty which set up the European Union
Environmentalists
Maastricht Treaty
Reparations
Crusades
5. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Siroccos
Balkanization
Northern European Plain
Loess
6. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Permafrost
Holocaust
Loess
Industrial Capitalism
7. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Global Warming
Acid Rain
Timberline
Foehns
8. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Mistral
Farm Cooperatives
Feudalism
Siroccos
9. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Crusades
Immigrant
Polders
Middle Ages
10. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Environmentalists
Balkanization
Fjords
Mistral
11. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Farm Cooperatives
Impressionists
Refugees
Avalanches
12. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
Romanticism
Guest Workers
Holocaust
Paris
13. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Environmentalists
Polders
Cold War
Brussels
14. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Polders
Industrial Revolution
Holocaust
Northern European Plain
15. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Avalanches
Acid Rain
Romanticism
Guest Workers
16. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Reformation
Industrial Capitalism
Maastricht Treaty
Guest Workers
17. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Farm Cooperatives
Genetically Modified Foods
Realism
Brussels
18. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Reparations
Renaissance
Impressionists
Fjords
19. France's capital
Feudalism
Romanticism
Polders
Paris
20. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Reparations
Brussels
Welfare States
Genetically Modified Foods
21. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Renaissance
Maastricht Treaty
Acid Deposition
Light Industry
22. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Maastricht Treaty
Northern European Plain
Industrial Capitalism
Immigrant
23. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Refugees
Romanticism
Acid Rain
24. The result of melting snow and ice
Enlightenment
Siroccos
Meltwater
Guest Workers
25. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Acid Deposition
Renaissance
Polders
Alps
26. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Global Warming
European Union
Refugees
Industrial Revolution
27. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Feudalism
Organic Farming
Cold War
Heavy Industry
28. Large banks of earth and stone
Polders
Global Warming
Dikes
Realism
29. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Acid Deposition
Avalanches
Reparations
Timberline
30. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Farm Cooperatives
Industrial Revolution
Balkanization
Global Warming
31. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Avalanches
Renaissance
Acid Rain
Siroccos
32. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Reformation
Acid Rain
Renaissance
Holocaust
33. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Glaciation
Welfare States
Alps
Dikes
34. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Balkanization
City-States
European Union
Permafrost
35. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Environmentalists
Acid Deposition
Renaissance
Glaciation
36. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Holocaust
Reformation
Renaissance
Dikes
37. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Mixed Farming
Timberline
Environmentalists
38. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Siroccos
Crusades
Acid Rain
Northern European Plain
39. Payment for damages
Siroccos
Organic Farming
Reparations
Balkanization
40. Also known as the Great European Plain
Maastricht Treaty
Cold War
Northern European Plain
Acid Deposition
41. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Enlightenment
Timberline
Feudalism
Brussels
42. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Crusades
Mixed Farming
Realism
Renaissance
43. A strong north word from the Alps
Global Warming
City-States
Mistral
Foehns
44. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Timberline
Reparations
Guest Workers
Meltwater
45. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Environmentalists
Foehns
Permafrost
European Union
46. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Organic Farming
Siroccos
Permafrost
Light Industry
47. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Acid Rain
Refugees
Brussels
Reformation
48. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Brussels
Acid Deposition
Balkanization
Polders
49. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Acid Rain
Global Warming
Dry Farming
Genetically Modified Foods
50. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Light Industry
Permafrost
Cold War
Glaciation