Chapter 4 and 5 Questions - World Geography

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St. Petersburg lies on the:

Gulf of Finland

Which of these is true about Karl Marx

He stated that the central theme throughout history was the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat

Which of these countries does not have an extensive upland area?

Hungary

Europe's near-monopoly on the export of manufactures was eroded because of:

Increased competition

Which is not one of the potential benefits of free trade among the European Union members?

Increasing the usage of "quality standards" between member nations to enhance the durability of European-made products

Which country is not a NATO member?

Ireland

Which of these is not a mountain range?

Irtysh

Why was the pound (pond) lock an important development?

It made possible the transport of inland goods to the coasts by interconnected waterways

The Russian "subject" separated from the rest of Russia is:

Kaliningrad

According to some forecasts, which nation might be the world's largest producer of oil in 2015?

Kazakhstan

Murmansk is located north of Moscow in the ____ Peninsula.

Kola

The British Isles lie roughly as far north as

Labrador

Modern-day Romance languages evolved from

Latin

A fertile, windblown soil associated with glaciated ares in Europe is called

Loess

The country with the highest GDP-PPP in the world is:

Luxembourg

Mush of Europe can be described climatically as

Marine west coast

Which is not one of the four subregions of Europe?

Microstates

In which country do people speak a Romance language?

Moldova

Which of the following statements is true?

Mollisols found in a belt from Ukraine to Kazakhstan are among the best soils to be found anywhere.

The ____ is Europe's most important inland waterway

Rhine

Which of these ethnic groups is present throughout Europe but has no homeland?

Roma

Which of these statements is false?

Russia established St. Petersburg as its capital after defeating the French under Napoleon in 1812.

Most of European Russia lies in which physical feature?

Russian Plain

Coniferous forests cover much of the land area of which area?

Scandinavia

The Rus (or Varangians) originated in:

Scandinavia

According to the text, the watershed event that began to make Europeans feel more secure was when:

The Berlin Wall fell

The Danube River empties into

The Black Sea

Europe has a largely temperate climate because of:

The North Atlantic Drift

What is the single largest physical feature across Europe?

The North European Plain

Which country in this region has the lowest population growth rate?

Ukraine

Which of these countries is the least likely to pursue closer political, military, and economic integration with Russia?

Ukraine

Which of these countries is historically not considered at have a land empire?

United Kingdom

Which of these rivers is not in Siberia?

Ural

The traditional physical dividing line between Europe and Asia lies mainly in the:

Urals

The most populated nation in Central Asia is:

Uzbekistan

Which Central Asian country has mined and barricaded some of its borders in an attempt to keep radical Islamists out?

Uzbekistan

The Great Volga Scheme created:

Vast reservoirs created behind numerous dams for easier navigation

Which river empties into the Caspian Sea?

Volga

The Volga-Don Canal connects these two important rivers in the vicinity of:

Volgograd

What was a proximate cause of the initial decline of Europe's share of the world's manufacturing output?

Warfare

Europe essentially defined the

demographic transition

The Russian autonomous republic of Sakha produces about one-quarter of the world's:

diamonds

Select the incorrect statement about the euro

it has been adopted by all but one of the original 15 European Union members

The agriculture of northeastern Siberia is generally:

nomadic herding

Which is not one of the seven new Russian administrative regions created in 2000?

northeastern

Agriculturally, Europe is:

not self-sufficient

The policy of glasnost meant:

openness

An economy largely focused on high technology and service industries is known as a(n) ____ economy.

postindustrial

Which of these statements is false about the second Chechen war?

the cessation of hostilities between Moscow and Chechnya lasted five years

The "Second Russian Revolution" was:

the collapse and sisolution of the Soviet Union

the "big bang" refers to:

the expansion of the EU in 2004

The population replacement level is:

the number of births needed to keep the population steady

The increase in production of manufactured goods during the Industrial Revolution came about initially because of the invention of:

the steam engine

5. The population of Europe (as defined in this book) is about ______ that of the United States.

twice

Prairie and stepped biomes are not found in which of the following countries?

Poland

Which is not one of the largest European nations in terms of population?

Poland

Which country's application to join the European Union was rejected?

Turkey

The Uniate Church is mainly found in:

Ukraine

About what percentage of Europeans consider religion to be "very important" in their daily lives?

20 percent

The process of offloading rock and soil by glaciers is known as glacial ____.

Deposition

In 2007, there were approximately ____ births per 1,000 people and approximately ____ deaths per 1,000 people in Russia.

10; 15

As of 2007, the number of official euro-using nations was ______.

13

The Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution both took place in:

1917

World War II ended in:

1945

To reverse population decline and keep the ratio of working-age people to the elderly the same, Europe needs to:

Accept millions of new immigrants each year

The global balance of power shifted towards Europe during the:

Age of Discovery

In which country is a Uralic language not spoken?

Albania

The country with the highest population growth rate in Europe is:

Albania

What did Ukraine do to win a much-increased foreign aid package from the United States?

Destroy its cache of nuclear warheads

In terms of area, the average European country is about the size of:

Arkansas

Most of ____ is characterized by a Mediterranean climate.

Armenia

Which country in this region has the smallest population?

Armenia

Which of these countries does not contain a major oil pipeline?

Armenia

which nation embraces Russia as an ally against the Turks?

Armenia

Which of the following language groups has the smallest geographic distribution across Europe?

Baltic

Which of these regions is not a major devolutionary area?

Bavaria

Which two countries elected to a joint parliament in 2000?

Belarus and Russia

Which of the following nations has the largest estimated percentage of Muslims?

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The ____ is a large land area with elevations generally below sea level.

Caspian Depression

The first millennium B.C.E. witnessed a great expansion of ____ and ____ peoples.

Celtic; Greek

Which is not an island off the coast of Europe?

Ceylon

The original forest covering many Mediterranean lands has largely been replace by

Chaparral

Which is false about the first Chechen war?

Chechen forces captured the capital city of Beslan in 1996 and renamed it Groznyy

Which of these cities is not a seaport located on the lower course of a river?

Copenhagen

Which of these is an example of where Russia irredentism might be taking place?

Crimea

The Adriatic Sea lies off the coast of which country?

Croatia

The desire of Europeans for their continent to be "war proof" was the main reason behind the creation of the:

European Union

Why was Europe able to acquire so many overseas colonies?

Europeans were able to create large companies that had access to enough money and labor to allow for extensive overseas colonization

Mt. Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, lies on the border between ____ and ____.

France; Italy

Most European precipitation arises from

Fronts

Which of these statements about Georgia is false?

Georgians living and working in Russia send back enough money in remittances to allow the Georgian government to act as a generous welfare state to native Georgians

Which country is the largest destination for migrants to Europe?

Germany

Which of these nations was not a major player in the initial exploration and colonization of the world?

Germany

The Celtic culture hearth was located in modern-day:

Germany and Austria

which of these capital cities is the southernmost?

Nicosia

One of the major problems of a deindustrialized economy according to the text is:

Not as many people are required to work in the new technologies as in the old

Which of these statements is false?

Only the principality of Muscovy (Moscow) avoided being occupied by Tatars

The Cossacks were:

Peasan-soldiers from the steppes, formed originally from serfs

Physically, Europe is best characterized as being a large:

Peninsula

Which sea lies between Sakhalin and Kamchatka?

Sea of Okhotsk

The Mediterranean climate arises mainly from

Seasonal shifts in atmospheric belts

Which is not a land use type found in Europe?

Shifting cultivation

Which of these countries does Serbia and Montenegro not border?

Slovenia

Why do buildings have to be erected on pilings in the high Arctic?

So the permafrost below the buildings will not melt and cause the foundations to tilt

Which of these countries has a shoreline on the Bay of Biscay?

Spain

Soviet and Allied forces began to reverse Nazi advances in 1943 after the Battle of:

Stalingrad

In which Central Asian country is an Iranian language spoken?

Tajikistan

The capital of Georgia is:

Tbilisi

Which one of these statements about Russian autonomous area is correct?

The Sakha republic no longer pays any taxes to Moscow, but instead must pay all the subsidies to local industry that Moscow originally paid

Which was not one of the main manifestations of growing European power in the world?

The mass forced migrations of slaves and other laborers to Europe

Which of these statements about the USSR's command economy is incorrect?

The prosperous private farmers resisted collectivized agriculture fiercely, leading to reprisals by the poor rural farmers wanting the land

Why is northern Europe an attractive magnet for immigrants?

They have generous welfare benefits and accept asylum-seekers

Immigration can be a drain upon European nations because:

They often have large families on welfare, costing the state money instead of generating new tax revenue

In terms of the world's estimated oil reserves, the Caspian Sea region ranks ____.

Third

After World War II, Russia and Eastern European countries entered into a treaty known as the:

Warsaw Pact

the ____ is a vast, waterlogged area underlain by permafrost and subject to tremendous flooding in the spring.

West Serbian Plain

European nations lost most of their colonies after:

World War II

Which of these have the events of 1991 in chronological order from last to first?

Yeltsin elected president of Russia; Baltics gain independence; attempted coup in Moscow fails; Gorbachev resigns as head of Communist Party; parliament votes to dissolve Soviet Union

Why will the newest members of the EU not receive the same level of agricultural subsidies as the older members?

a and b

What was the result of Yeltsin's "economic shock therapy"?

a new consumer-oriented society formed upon class lines, with an enormous gulf between the rich and poor people

The three leading European nations in terms of total fish catch are located:

adjacent to the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea

Europe is fringed by numerous

all of the above

How were Russia and later the Soviet Union able to repeatedly triumph over powerful invaders?

all of the above

An estuary is

an area where the tide meets a river current


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