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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 philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Industrial Revolution
Light Industry
Communism
Glaciation
2. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Fjords
Permafrost
City-States
Global Warming
3. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Global Warming
Heavy Industry
Romanticism
Romanticism
4. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Holocaust
Industrial Capitalism
Realism
Industrial Revolution
5. Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface
Permafrost
Guest Workers
Fjords
Environmentalists
6. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Realism
Siroccos
Welfare States
Acid Deposition
7. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Brussels
Communism
Dry Farming
Dikes
8. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Realism
Reparations
Fjords
Meltwater
9. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Middle Ages
Mixed Farming
Glaciation
Northern European Plain
10. People who flee to another country for safety
Refugees
Dikes
Crusades
Fjords
11. Treaty which set up the European Union
Maastricht Treaty
Brussels
Acid Deposition
Loess
12. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Enlightenment
Dikes
Permafrost
Organic Farming
13. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Balkanization
Holocaust
Fjords
Farm Cooperatives
14. Separate communites
Cold War
City-States
Foehns
Feudalism
15. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Feudalism
Balkanization
Avalanches
Maastricht Treaty
16. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Genetically Modified Foods
Environmentalists
City-States
City-States
17. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Glaciation
Northern European Plain
Paris
Middle Ages
18. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Glaciation
Heavy Industry
Welfare States
Dikes
19. People who flee to another country for safety
Communism
Northern European Plain
Middle Ages
Refugees
20. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
European Union
Timberline
Communism
Paris
21. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Romanticism
Immigrant
Avalanches
Alps
22. Mountain system formed by glaciation and folding
Alps
Refugees
Environmentalists
Global Warming
23. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Dikes
Industrial Capitalism
Cold War
City-States
24. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Polders
Genetically Modified Foods
Maastricht Treaty
Mixed Farming
25. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Industrial Capitalism
Timberline
Reformation
Holocaust
26. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Northern European Plain
Farm Cooperatives
Acid Deposition
Cold War
27. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Northern European Plain
Mistral
European Union
Feudalism
28. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Heavy Industry
Light Industry
Holocaust
Romanticism
29. Also known as the Great European Plain
Guest Workers
Communism
Northern European Plain
Alps
30. Separate communites
City-States
Holocaust
Genetically Modified Foods
Siroccos
31. Large banks of earth and stone
Dry Farming
Timberline
Refugees
Dikes
32. 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
Renaissance
European Union
Timberline
33. Also known as the Great European Plain
Avalanches
Northern European Plain
Cold War
Farm Cooperatives
34. The process in which glaciers formed and spread
Meltwater
Glaciation
Global Warming
Alps
35. Division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile with each other
Reparations
Balkanization
Feudalism
Loess
36. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Heavy Industry
Guest Workers
Cold War
Crusades
37. A strong north word from the Alps
Holocaust
Guest Workers
Industrial Capitalism
Mistral
38. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Balkanization
Glaciation
Timberline
Farm Cooperatives
39. The result of melting snow and ice
European Union
Meltwater
Welfare States
Fjords
40. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Renaissance
Siroccos
Immigrant
Heavy Industry
41. People concerned with the quality of the environment
Impressionists
Brussels
Environmentalists
Dikes
42. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Mistral
Enlightenment
Crusades
Renaissance
43. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Global Warming
Acid Rain
European Union
Siroccos
44. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Acid Rain
Heavy Industry
Feudalism
Mixed Farming
45. Payment for damages
European Union
Polders
Reparations
Permafrost
46. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Impressionists
Holocaust
Loess
Paris
47. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Siroccos
Brussels
Realism
Fjords
48. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
Industrial Capitalism
Immigrant
Reformation
Crusades
49. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Acid Deposition
Dry Farming
Avalanches
Immigrant
50. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Welfare States
Dikes
Realism
Brussels