Chapter 8

Question 1

East-West running mountains from Atlantic to Black Sea

Answer 1

Alpine Mountain System

Question 2

Mountains going from Atlantic to Mediterranean Sea

Answer 2

Pyrenees

Question 3

Mountains going from France-East Austria

Answer 3

Alps

Question 4

Continental ice sheets and glaciers carving deep U shape valleys along Norway’s coastline

Answer 4

Fjords

Question 5

Western Europe

Arc between the Alps and European lowlands in France and Germany

Answer 5

Central Uplands

Question 6

Portugal to British isles

Thin soil, limited agriculture, eroded to bedrock, flooded valleys

Answer 6

Western highlands

Question 7

Climate along the Atlantic coast

-moderate and moist

Answer 7

Maritime climate

Question 8

Climate with gloomy overcast weather, never below freezing

Answer 8

Marine west coast

Question 9

Climate with dry summer season

Answer 9

Mediterranean

Question 10

Europe’s longest river

Answer 10

Danube

Question 11

Reduction of border regulations for EU members

Answer 11

Schengen agreement

Question 12

Characteristics of a medieval landscape

Answer 12

Crowded buildings and streets

Question 13

Characteristics of Renaissance

Answer 13

Monuments, squares, ceremonial buildings, gardens, wide boulevards

Question 14

Countries told to cutdown on greenhouse gas emissions while others weren’t

Answer 14

Kyoto protocol

Question 15

Split between east and west churches in the 16th century

Answer 15

Protestant revolt

Question 16

Northern European plain
Broken by hills and plateaus
Rhine river splits it
High population density, agriculture, large cities and major industrial region…

Answer 16

European lowland

Question 17

Extensive block of satellite countries, dominated by Soviet Union, cushioned them from attack

Answer 17

Buffer zone

Question 18

45 year war that divided continent and world into two hostile camps

Answer 18

Cold War

Question 19

Supranational organization made up of 28 countries

Answer 19

European Union

Question 20

Europe separated into two geopolitical and economic blocks that went away shortly after peace agreement after WWII

Answer 20

Iron curtain

Question 21

Piles of glacial debris

Answer 21

Moraines

Question 22

Transfer to private ownership firms and industries previously owned and operated by state governments

Answer 22

Privatization

Question 23

Refers to widespread movement away from historically important organized religious groups

Answer 23

Secularization

Question 24

Eroded to bedrock by glaciers known as

Answer 24

A shield landscape

Question 25

Complete economic, political and social integration through a common economy, centrally planned and controlled

Answer 25

Command economy

Question 26

Countries with close ties to the Orthodox Church use this

Answer 26

Cyrillic alphabet

Question 27

Countries belonging to the EMU

Answer 27

Euro land

Question 28

Many countries looked to migrant workers during imperialistic times, they were called

Answer 28

Guest workers

Question 29

State policies for reclaiming lost territory and people

Answer 29

Irredentism

Question 30

What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet.

Answer 30

Alpine mountain system

Question 31

What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?

Answer 31

Pyrenees

Question 32

In which European country would you find fjords?

Answer 32

Norway

Question 33

What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s?

Answer 33

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 34

What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?

Answer 34

Medieval
Renaissance
Industrial

Question 35

As their first language, 90 percent of Europe’s population speak languages from what three groups?

Answer 35

Germanic, Slavic, romantic

Question 36

What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?

Answer 36

Euro