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What two aspects of Europe's physical geography make it fundamental as a world region and within the regions in Europe itself?
- Its location between the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East
- the collection of islands and peninsulas next to a large landmass
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How does Eurpoe's location around so many seas affect its climate?
they provide a warming effect in winter and a cooling effect in summer
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A low pressure system where air flows down the Rhone Valley in southern France
mistral
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A low pressure system where air flows over the eastern Alps toward the Adriatic region of Italy
bora
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How long can the sun show in the Northwestern Uplands of Norway in the month of December?
17 hours; 57 days without setting
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a system of farming and a way of life based on keeping herds of grazing animals eked out
pastoralism
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What is the principle industry of the Alpine region? staple of the economy?
tourism; farming
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long, narrow mountain ranges in the central plateaus of central Spain
cordillera
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The flat landscape that holds beneath it covers of sedimentary rock
meseta
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which part of the North Europena lowlands is a drier, Continental climate with little rainfall and scarce trees and stone?
the far eastern lands
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semiarid, treeless, grassland plains
steppe
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what percentage of Europe is covered wirh Temparate forests originally, as apart from today?
95%; 5%
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the Romans' system of subdividing land into a checkerboard pattern of rectilinear fields
centuriation
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Large estates in which peasants were put to work on
latufundia
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What provided for the first European economic transformation?
Gold and Silver from the Americas
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the intermediary centers of trade and transshipment on the river basins of Europe
entrepot
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According to the three waves of the Industrial Revolution, describe each one.
- 1st: transportation technologies
- 2nd: the expansion of Industrializd Britain to western Europe by steam engines
- 3rd: electricity; western Europenan industry spread to northern and far eastern Europe
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Which eastern European country withdrew from the Soviet bloc to seek a Chinese-form of communism?
Albania
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the cost advantages that accrue to individual firms because of their location among functionally related activities
agglomeration economies
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a society based on belief in equal, social, political, and economic rights and privileges
egalitarian
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what does COMECON stand for?
the Communist Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
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What was the main focus of COMECON?
to reorganize Eastern European economies in the Soviet mold-with each individuals pursuing independent, centralized plans to produce economic self-sufficency
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How much of the world's population does Europe hold?
12%
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What was the main focus of the European Union?
To regain the prosperity of Europe following WWII and to ensure European autonomy from the United States
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selling off assets such as factories and equipment
Disinvestment
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What three cities do the Golden Triangle center on?
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the new form of industrial subregions in the southern cresent of Europe as a result of the deindustrialization of northwestern Europe
flexible production regions
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What was one of the biggest migration patterns and why did it occur?
the post war migration; because of the post war economic boom, labor shortages occured in Western Europe
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any situation where a larger territiory has broken uo into several territories
balkanization
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culturally distinct territories that are surrounded by the territory of a different cultural group
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Less than 10% of Europeans work in this employment sector
Agriculture
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What is the overall result of the European Union's policy towards agriculture?
A withdrawal of mixed farming in Europe
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Whych physiographic region has most important coal fields in Europe?
Central Plateaus
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The largest outlay to European funds is to _____.
Transportation
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The Pryenees Mountains lay between the border of which two countries?
Spain and France
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Because of its long coastline and close proximity to seas, how are Europe's climates?
mild for its latitudinal range
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Mistral winds blow down the Rhone valley in southern ____.
France
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Which country first developed polder landscape techniques?
The Netherlands
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Which country was the first in over-seas expansions?
Portugal
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Industralization came to the coal fields of northern France, Belgium, and Germany during which time period?
1850-1870
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Which country was expelled from the Soviet bloc for ideological differences?
Yugoslavia
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After an unsuccessful initative program, what was the main goal of the COMECON?
mutual trade among the Soviet bloc
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What is the best reason that Europe is growing at a slow rate today?
A decline in birthrates
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Which two countries lost territories that would later become Yugoslavia?
Hungary and Austria
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This Yugoslavian leader is credited with unifying his country's multi-ethnic society
Marshall Tito
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Which eastern European country has made the best integration into the European economy?
Slovenia
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The Randstad, a densly populated region, is ocated in what country?
The Netherlands
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Which treaty granted the European Union most of the functions of a soverign national state?
Maastricht Treaty
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What is another name for the slash-and-burn agricultural technique?
swidden
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This was a forward-looking view of the world that emphasized reason, scientific rationality,creativity, novelty, and progress.
Modernity
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Which of the following led to attempts at ethnic cleansing in the late 20th century?
Serbian nationalism
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What physiographic region are the most rocks located?
the Northwestern Uplands
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