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Geography 2000
Chapter 1 "Europe"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The following are statements describing the demographic and economic conditions which may be generally ascribed to the European Realm. Which one is inaccurate? | *B. Levels of economic development in Europe decline from east to west. |
| Europe’s relative location: | *D. is one of centrality within the land hemisphere |
| Continentality refers to: | *A. more extreme climates located inland |
| The major chain of mountains in Europe is referred to as the: | *A. Alpines |
| Which of the following is not in the Western Uplands? | Switzerland |
| The landform region predominating in the area to the north of the Alpine chain is the: | *A. Central Uplands |
| The North European Lowland | . is the most densely populated of Europe’s landscape regions |
| Such things as roads, railroads and ports are best defined as: | . infrastructure |
| The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as: | . areal functional specialization |
| The emergence of modern Europe after the Dark Ages is known as the: | Renaissance |
| Which of the following was not an objective of mercantilism? | establishing Christianity throughout the world |
| The innermost land use ring of the von Thünen Model contains: | intensive farming and dairying |
| Which of the following is not a feature of the original Isolated State Model? | the need for constant territorial growth of producing areas |
| Von Thünen in his “Isolated State” argued that five belts of human activity would develop around the central town or city. The first (or nearest) of these is: | . a zone of intensive agriculture and dairying |
| The industrial revolution in Europe: | initially was focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to drive engines emerged |
| The economic geographer Alfred Weber is known for his contribution of: | a set of principles governing the location of industry |
| Forces which concentrate particular industries in particular locations are: | . agglomerative |
| Europe’s political revolution: | . began in the 1780s with the French Revolution |
| Which of the following events occurred within the ten years following the onset of the French Revolution (1789)? | A. the downfall of France's monarchy B. the establishment of the French nation-state C. the emergence of Napoleon as the leader of France *D. all of the above E. the founding of Paris |
| __________ forces tie a nation together. | Centripetal |
| __________ forces are divisive to a nation | Centrifugal |
| Which of the following is the strongest example of a European nation-state? | Poland |
| Which of the following states is unilingual in that it possesses a single language spoken throughout its territory | Austria |
| Which of the following languages is not a Slavic language? | Romanian |
| Complementarity deals with the fact that commodity flows between A and B depend upon: | a surplus of a commodity at place A and a deficit of the commodity at place B |
| The spatial interaction principle of complementarity: | *C. describes trade in which one area specifically needs the surplus commodity of another area |
| An example of an intervening opportunity is: | *A. Florida is an intervening opportunity for vacationers from New York considering a vacation in California |
| The three principles of spatial interaction are: | None of the above!!!! :D |
| Which of the following is not a relatively recent example of European transportation improvements? | magnetic levitation trains |
| A country's leading urban center, disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is known as the | Primate City |
| 31. Which of the following capital cities is not a primate city? | Bern |
| The downtown area of a city is known as the: | Central Business District |
| The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as: | Devolution |
| Which of the following is not an area of previous or potential devolution? | Southern Sweden |
| Which of the following is not one of the four Motors of Europe? | A. Tirane (Albania) |
| A Euroregion: | *B. is a formal territorial entity straddling one of Europe’s traditional international |
| The US plan to aid Europe after World War II was known as the _______ Plan. | Marshall Plan |
| Which of the following is not an example of European supranationalism? | the solidarity labor movement |
| The voluntary association of three or more countries is known as: | supranationalism |
| European supranationalism all began with: | Benelux |
| The major competition to the original European Common Market was: A | EFTA |
| The major factor keeping Eastern European countries out of the European Union is: | *A. under the rules of the EU, richer countries must subsidize poorer countries |
| 43. The Common Market evolved into the European Community. It is being replaced by: | The European Union |
| The Treaty on European Unity was signed at | Maaschrit |
| A country that was divided into two political units after World War II was: | Germany |
| _______ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically. | Germany |
| Which of the following is not a historically German industrial area? | Po River Basin |
| The Ruhr industrial complex is linked via the Rhine River to: | Rotterdam |
| Most foreign workers in Germany are of _________origin. | Turkish |
| The major river in Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the | Rhine |
| Germany is divided into subdistricts called: | landers |
| The current population of Germany is in excess of: | 80 million |
| A city in Germany benefitting from the restoration of its hinterland as a result of the reunification of Germany is: | Hamburg |
| German reunification | . occurred in 1990 B. has led to a country with 16 lander C. made the Poles uneasy because of the territory Germany lost to Poland after WW II D. made the UK and France uneasy because of German economic power *E. all of the above are true |
| German reunification: | All the above are true |
| The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is: | France |
| Which of the following statements is false? | *E. France has better harbors than does Germany. |
| France is divided into regions called: | Regions |
| Which of the following rivers does not flow through French territory? | B. the Danube |
| Which of the following is not a major French industry? | Aluminium |
| _______ is a country which has continued to maintain a network of colonies and to take an intense interest in former colonies. | France |
| Benelux refers to: | *B. the Low Countries of Western Europe |
| Which of the following countries is not a signatory of the Benelux Agreement? | *C. Liechtenstein |
| The administrative headquarters for the European Union and NATO is | Brussels |
| . Lands reclaimed from the sea are known as: | Polders |
| The Randstad is comprised of: | *A. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague |
| Europe’s busiest port, the shipping gateway for the Rhine and the Meuse Rivers is: | Rotterdam |
| Which of the following European countries is landlocked? | Switzerland |
| Which of the following statements is false | . Europe may be delineated as a region due to its cultural homogeneity. |
| Which of the following statements is false? | . Austria is multilingual and Switzerland is unilingual. |
| The European country that has purported to practice strict neutrality is: | Switzerland |
| The easternmost city of Western Europe is: | Vienna |
| The only Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is: | Switzerland |
| Which of the following is not a portion of the United Kingdom? | Republic of Ireland |
| The United Kingdom was often protected from European wars by the: | English Channel |
| . Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the: | North Sea |
| In Scotland: | All of the above |
| Which of the following is not a region of the United Kingdom? | Ireland |
| The must rugged part of the United Kingdom is: | Wales |
| 81. An important coal mining area that has been ravaged by strip mines is: | Wales |
| The major conurbation of London lies within which of the following regions? * | A. Affluent Southern England |
| More than half of the population of Northern Ireland trace their ancestry to: | Scotland or England |
| The population of Northern Ireland: | dominated by protestants |
| A European country that has declined in population over the past centuries is: | Ireland |
| As of 1998, the situation in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants: | *B. had reached the point where an agreement to end the conflict had been negotiated |
| The decline in population in the Republic of Ireland is in part due to: | the potato famine |
| Norden: | . has a largely inhospitable northern climate |
| Which of the following is not a Nordic country? | Malta |
| All of the following help to unite some of the Norden countries except: | Catholicism |
| An economic activity that is important in Norway, Sweden, and Finland is: | forestry |
| Fjords are associated with which of the following countries? | Norway |
| The Northern European country that has benefitted the most from North Sea oil is: | Norway |
| The country located on the Jutland Peninsula and the smallest state (in area) in Norden is: | Denmark |
| Copenhagen serves as: | all of the above |
| Which country has the best agricultural economy? | Denmark |
| Which Norden city serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city? | Copenhagen |
| Finland lost significant territories to: | Russia |
| ___________ has more in common with Finland than the other two Baltic states and is thus included as part of Northern Europe | Estonia |
| Estonia was, at one time, part of the Kingdom of: | Sweden |
| This former Soviet Republic is small in terms of population size, speaks a language related to Finnish, and is about 30 percent Russian: | Estonia |
| Iceland’s chief economic activity is: | fishing |
| The Norden country with the lowest population is: | Iceland |
| The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain chain? | Pyrenees |
| The most spatially discontinuous of the European regions is: | Mediterranian Europe |
| The Mediterranean European country with the lowest percentage living in urban areas is: | Portugal |
| The Tyrrhenian Sea lies between: | Sardinia and Italy |
| Italy’s economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in: | Po River Valley |
| Which of the following cities is located in Italy’s core area? | *A. Milan-Turin-Genoa |
| Southern Italy is known as the: | *A. Mezzogiorno |
| Which country has the greatest potential for hydroelectric power? | Italy |
| Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the: | *D. Anacona Line |
| The southern part of Italy is to be helped by the discovery of: | oil |
| . The Autonomous Community in eastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains | Catalonia |
| . Spain is subdivided into subunits called: | Autonomous |
| An ethnic minority in northeastern Spain that has a separatist movement is the: | Basque |
| Spain’s leading industrial area is known as: | Catalonia |
| ____ on the Iberian peninsula is one of Europe’s poorer countries. | Portugal |
| The largest Greek island is: | Crete |
| This country was one of the cradles of western civilization and has had many conflicts with Turkey. | Greece |
| The capital and primate city of Greece is: | Athens |
| The Acropolis is found in which of the following countries? | Greece |
| The island contested between Greece and Turkey is: | Cyprus |
| The European region that has undergone the greatest political changes in the past five years is: | Eastern Europe |
| Your textbook identifies Eastern Europe as a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing, called a: | shatter belt |
| The term “Balkanization” refers to: | *D. the division and fragmentation of the Eastern Europe region |
| Which of the following is not a Baltic republic? | Moldova |
| The Danube River empties into the: | Black Sea |
| From the end of World War II until the 1990s, Eastern Europe was dominated by the: | U.S.S.R |
| Which of the following was a Serbian dominated state established after World War I? | Yugoslavia |
| Which of the following is not a state created in the mid-1990s? | Poland |
| The leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland is located in: | Silesia |
| The capital and leading city in Poland is: | Warsaw |
| Traditionally, Poland was: |
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