EOC

Question 1

What was the result of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Increased exportation of manufactured good to the virtual colonies.

Question 2

Where are Germany’s most important industrial centers?

Answer 2

The central part of the country

Question 3

What separates the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe?

Answer 3

The Pyrenees Mountains

Question 4

Why are the Basques different from other people in Spain?

Answer 4

Because they speak a language that is not related to other languages of Europe.

Question 5

The Renaissance was a time of what?

Answer 5

Art & learning

Question 6

The murder of Jews, Poles, & other people by the Nazis during WW2 is referred to as what?

Answer 6

The Holocaust

Question 7

Why is Hungary called the breadbasket of Europe?

Answer 7

Because of its fertile farm region

Question 8

What is an entrepreneur?

Answer 8

A person who starts & builds a business

Question 9

Where did the chernoble nuclear explosion take place?

Answer 9

Ukraine

Question 10

European longest river

Answer 10

The Volga

Question 11

Climate of Russia

Answer 11

Subarctic & continental

Question 12

Why are relations between anemia & turkey particularly bitter?

Answer 12

Because of a Turkish massacre of Armenians during WW1

Question 13

Cultural divergence

Answer 13

Deliberate efforts to keep groups separate

Question 14

Geothermal energy

Answer 14

Energy produced from the heat of the earths interior

Question 15

Mixed economies

Answer 15

Systems combining different degrees of government regulation

Question 16

Tertiary economic activities

Answer 16

Service industry such as finance insurance and tourism

Question 17

Confederation

Answer 17

This organization of independent states

Question 18

Recession

Answer 18

Extended decline in general business activity

Question 19

Reparations

Answer 19

Money for war damages

Question 20

Nationalize

Answer 20

To bring industries under state control

Question 21

Why were the relations between turkey and Armenia particularly bitter?

Answer 21

Because of the turkeys massacre of Arminians during World War I

Question 22

What caused Jordan to lose most of its fertile land

Answer 22

Because of 1967 war

Question 23

Where do the majority of Egypt people live

Answer 23

Near the Nile river and in the Nile Delta

Question 24

Even though central African nations have a lot of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources they still have not been economic success

Answer 24

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Question 25

When Did south Africa become an independent republic

Answer 25

1961

Question 26

Why was Pakistan separated from India

Answer 26

To provide a state for the Muslim population of India

Question 27

Hong Kong

Answer 27

Hong Kong was leased to the British until 1997 when it became part of China again

Question 28

What is the climate of Russia

Answer 28

Sub arctic and continental

Question 29

Europe’s longest river

Answer 29

Volga

Question 30

Where did the chernoble nuclear explosion take place?

Answer 30

The Ukraine

Question 31

Why is Hungary called the breadbasket of Europe

Answer 31

Because of the fertile farm region

Question 32

The murder of Jews poles and other but people by the Nazis during World War II is referred to as what?

Answer 32

The Holocaust

Question 33

Why did London England become one of the greatest commercial & shipping centers in the world?

Answer 33

Because ships could sail directly into London’s ports