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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 power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Crusades
Industrial Capitalism
Cold War
Global Warming
2. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Loess
Impressionists
Genetically Modified Foods
Welfare States
3. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Enlightenment
Middle Ages
Feudalism
Industrial Revolution
4. A way of farming in dry areas that produces crops without any irrigation and relies on farming methods that conserve soil moisture
Global Warming
Dry Farming
Romanticism
Balkanization
5. A group of French painters who moved outdoors to capture immediate experiences - or 'impressions' of the natural world
Impressionists
Heavy Industry
Acid Rain
Heavy Industry
6. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Enlightenment
Organic Farming
Acid Rain
Fjords
7. Focusing on accurately depicting the details of everyday life
Organic Farming
Avalanches
Realism
Mixed Farming
8. The elevation above which trees cannot grow
Siroccos
Loess
Timberline
Balkanization
9. Countries that provide healthcare programs funded by governments
Welfare States
Meltwater
Industrial Revolution
Glaciation
10. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Mixed Farming
Genetically Modified Foods
Crusades
Heavy Industry
11. An economic system in which owners used profits to expand their companies
Industrial Capitalism
Welfare States
Genetically Modified Foods
Feudalism
12. A system in Which monarchs or lords gave them to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty
Foehns
Feudalism
Genetically Modified Foods
Northern European Plain
13. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Light Industry
Cold War
Genetically Modified Foods
Organic Farming
14. Winter winds which can trigger avalanches
Meltwater
Reformation
Foehns
Genetically Modified Foods
15. Organizations in which farmers share in growing and selling products - reduce costs and increase profits
Communism
Communism
Farm Cooperatives
Impressionists
16. Using natural substances instead of chemicals to increase crop yields
Dikes
Reformation
Organic Farming
Acid Rain
17. Style in the late 1700s that focused on emotions - stirring historical events - and the struggles of individuals
Romanticism
Light Industry
Environmentalists
Middle Ages
18. Europe's period of artisitic and intellectual achievement that began in the 1300s in Italy
Avalanches
Middle Ages
City-States
Renaissance
19. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
European Union
Alps
Reparations
Polders
20. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Brussels
European Union
Fjords
Ethnic Cleansing
21. Gradual warming of the Earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Realism
Acid Deposition
Paris
Global Warming
22. Long - narrow - steep-sided inlets
Fjords
Enlightenment
Ethnic Cleansing
City-States
23. Treaty which set up the European Union
Reparations
Maastricht Treaty
Northern European Plain
Heavy Industry
24. Low-lying area from which seawater has been drained to create new farmland
Organic Farming
Immigrant
Realism
Polders
25. France's capital
Paris
Acid Rain
Communism
Refugees
26. Foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pests
Genetically Modified Foods
Holocaust
Cold War
Ethnic Cleansing
27. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Reparations
Organic Farming
Welfare States
Heavy Industry
28. Foreigners who work on a temporary basis in a country other than ones in which they are citizens
City-States
Realism
Guest Workers
Reparations
29. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Crusades
Heavy Industry
Paris
Loess
30. A series of brutal religious wars to win Palestine - the birthplace of Christianity - from Muslim rule
City-States
Communism
Global Warming
Crusades
31. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings - forests - and crops - and kills wildlife
Acid Rain
Light Industry
Fjords
Ethnic Cleansing
32. A fine - rich wind-borne soil left by glaciers
Environmentalists
Loess
Acid Rain
Reparations
33. Payment for damages
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Reparations
Foehns
34. Destructive masses of ice - snow - and rock sliding down mountainsides
Impressionists
Paris
Avalanches
Polders
35. Hot - dry winds from North Africa
Siroccos
Northern European Plain
Communism
Holocaust
36. Group of countries whose goal is a united Europe in which goods - services - and workers can move freely among member countries
Genetically Modified Foods
European Union
Feudalism
Refugees
37. Wet or dry acid pollution that falls to the ground
Renaissance
Foehns
Acid Deposition
Heavy Industry
38. A movement to value reason and question tradition
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Welfare States
Realism
39. The commercial center of Belgium and the administrative center for the European Union
Middle Ages
Global Warming
Brussels
Light Industry
40. The mass murder of more than 6 million European Jews
Realism
City-States
Avalanches
Holocaust
41. Raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm
Northern European Plain
Acid Deposition
Mixed Farming
Welfare States
42. Transformed manufacturing in Europe by replacing human labor with machines
Timberline
Light Industry
Mixed Farming
Industrial Revolution
43. The manufacture of high-end electronics or specialty tools
Renaissance
Light Industry
Heavy Industry
Balkanization
44. A religious movement of the 1500s that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church and introduced Protestantism to Europe
Realism
Heavy Industry
Reformation
Impressionists
45. A power struggle between the Soviet-controlled Communist world and the non-Communist world
Cold War
Welfare States
Reformation
Environmentalists
46. A philosophy that called for economic equality and ownership of resources by workers
Communism
Balkanization
Loess
Dikes
47. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Brussels
Industrial Revolution
Immigrant
Middle Ages
48. Period of time that lasted from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. - known as the period between ancient and modern times
Ethnic Cleansing
Guest Workers
Immigrant
Middle Ages
49. The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment
Welfare States
Heavy Industry
Foehns
Romanticism
50. A person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence
Environmentalists
Immigrant
Crusades
Genetically Modified Foods