Chapter 8 Flashcards

1
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East-West running mountains from Atlantic to Black Sea

A

Alpine Mountain System

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2
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Mountains going from Atlantic to Mediterranean Sea

A

Pyrenees

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3
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Mountains going from France-East Austria

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Alps

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4
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Continental ice sheets and glaciers carving deep U shape valleys along Norway’s coastline

A

Fjords

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5
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Western Europe

Arc between the Alps and European lowlands in France and Germany

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Central Uplands

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6
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Portugal to British isles

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

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Western highlands

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7
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Climate along the Atlantic coast

-moderate and moist

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Maritime climate

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8
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Climate with gloomy overcast weather, never below freezing

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Marine west coast

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9
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Climate with dry summer season

A

Mediterranean

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10
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Europe’s longest river

A

Danube

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11
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Reduction of border regulations for EU members

A

Schengen agreement

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12
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Characteristics of a medieval landscape

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Crowded buildings and streets

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13
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Characteristics of Renaissance

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Monuments, squares, ceremonial buildings, gardens, wide boulevards

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14
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Countries told to cutdown on greenhouse gas emissions while others weren’t

A

Kyoto protocol

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15
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Split between east and west churches in the 16th century

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Protestant revolt

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16
Q

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

A

European lowland

17
Q

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

A

Buffer zone

18
Q

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

19
Q

Supranational organization made up of 28 countries

A

European Union

20
Q

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

A

Iron curtain

21
Q

Piles of glacial debris

22
Q

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

A

Privatization

23
Q

Refers to widespread movement away from historically important organized religious groups

A

Secularization

24
Q

Eroded to bedrock by glaciers known as

A

A shield landscape

25
Complete economic, political and social integration through a common economy, centrally planned and controlled
Command economy
26
Countries with close ties to the Orthodox Church use this
Cyrillic alphabet
27
Countries belonging to the EMU
Euro land
28
Many countries looked to migrant workers during imperialistic times, they were called
Guest workers
29
State policies for reclaiming lost territory and people
Irredentism
30
What mountain range in Europe is over 500 miles long and has peaks reaching 15,000 feet.
Alpine mountain system
31
What European mountain range forms the political border between Spain and France?
Pyrenees
32
In which European country would you find fjords?
Norway
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?
Collapse of the Soviet Union
34
What three historical eras are represented in European city landscapes?
Medieval Renaissance Industrial
35
As their first language, 90 percent of Europe's population speak languages from what three groups?
Germanic, Slavic, romantic
36
What is the currency of the European Monetary Union?
Euro