Chapter 8 Flashcards
East-West running mountains from Atlantic to Black Sea
Alpine Mountain System
Mountains going from Atlantic to Mediterranean Sea
Pyrenees
Mountains going from France-East Austria
Alps
Continental ice sheets and glaciers carving deep U shape valleys along Norway’s coastline
Fjords
Western Europe
Arc between the Alps and European lowlands in France and Germany
Central Uplands
Portugal to British isles
Thin soil, limited agriculture, eroded to bedrock, flooded valleys
Western highlands
Climate along the Atlantic coast
-moderate and moist
Maritime climate
Climate with gloomy overcast weather, never below freezing
Marine west coast
Climate with dry summer season
Mediterranean
Europe’s longest river
Danube
Reduction of border regulations for EU members
Schengen agreement
Characteristics of a medieval landscape
Crowded buildings and streets
Characteristics of Renaissance
Monuments, squares, ceremonial buildings, gardens, wide boulevards
Countries told to cutdown on greenhouse gas emissions while others weren’t
Kyoto protocol
Split between east and west churches in the 16th century
Protestant revolt
Northern European plain
Broken by hills and plateaus
Rhine river splits it
High population density, agriculture, large cities and major industrial region…
European lowland
Extensive block of satellite countries, dominated by Soviet Union, cushioned them from attack
Buffer zone
45 year war that divided continent and world into two hostile camps
Cold War
Supranational organization made up of 28 countries
European Union
Europe separated into two geopolitical and economic blocks that went away shortly after peace agreement after WWII
Iron curtain
Piles of glacial debris
Moraines
Transfer to private ownership firms and industries previously owned and operated by state governments
Privatization
Refers to widespread movement away from historically important organized religious groups
Secularization
Eroded to bedrock by glaciers known as
A shield landscape
Complete economic, political and social integration through a common economy, centrally planned and controlled
Command economy
Countries with close ties to the Orthodox Church use this
Cyrillic alphabet
Countries belonging to the EMU
Euro land
Many countries looked to migrant workers during imperialistic times, they were called
Guest workers
State policies for reclaiming lost territory and people
Irredentism
What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet.
Alpine mountain system
What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
Pyrenees
In which European country would you find fjords?
Norway
What event has been an important cause of the surge of immigration to European countries such as Germany since the beginning of the 1990s?
Collapse of the Soviet Union
What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?
Medieval
Renaissance
Industrial
As their first language, 90 percent of Europe’s population speak languages from what three groups?
Germanic, Slavic, romantic
What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?
Euro
