GEOG 1102 Module 4 Exam

The Industrial Revolution in Europe: gave enormous situational advantage to large cities such as London and Paris, both positioned on coal fields and near iron ores produced the first specialized industries anywhere in the realm confirmed the superior quality of European products, which were already beating inferior textiles and other wares from India and China before the Industrial Revolution even began triggered a large immigration of workers from other parts of the world to fill the available jobs in the factories initially was focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged

initially was focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged

When a state seeks to acquire the neighboring territory that is home to ethnically similar people and territory on the other side of its international border by appealing to a concentrated group, this action is termed: colonization interference devolution Balkanization irredentism

irredentism

Europe's relative location: is one of centrality within the land hemisphere has proven inefficient for international trade is disadvantaged by its closeness to Austrailia is disadvantaged by its proximity to the sea is one of inferior global accessibility

is one of centrality within the land hemisphere

The North European Lowland: contains the plains of Greece has historically functioned as a barrier to contact and communication due to its marshy conditions contains the mountain ranges of the Alps is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions does not include southeastern England

is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions

The remarkable diversity of Europe results from all of the following except? interaction of the land and the sea isolation from the rest of the world latitudinal extent from Arctic to subtropics long history of human settlement

isolation from the rest of the world

The geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods is known as: Balkanization complementarity irredentism supranationalism local functional specialization

local functional specialization

German reunification: has led to a country with 8 Autonomous Communities is still only partially completed occurred in 1990 took place immediately after the end of World War II has resulted in economic equalization between former East and West Germany

occurred in 1990

A country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, such as Paris is to France, is know as the country's: conurbation entrepot primate city functional region core city

primate city

Eastern Europe is a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing known as a(an): Balkan conurbation transition zone periphery shatter belt irredentist region

shatter belt

The term Balkanization refers to: a peculiar language spoken in Bulgaria the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of Eastern Europe Serbian supranationalism the landmass located just to the west of the Adriatic Sea the imposition of the Slavic religion

the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of Eastern Europe

Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.

true

Every country who joins the European Union has to adopt the euro as its form of currency/money.

true

The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

true

The spatial interaction principle of transferability refers to the ability to move a good at a bearable cost.

true

Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the: Ancona Line Po River Strait of Gibraltar Apennines Alps

Ancona line

The capital and primate city of Greece is: Cyprus Sparta Athens Malta Atlantis

Athens

Which of the following is not an example of European supranationalism? Basque Independent Movement the European Union Benelux the European Parliament the Euro currency

Basque Independent Movement

Which former Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Mensk (Minsk), is called White Russia, and is still strongly linked to Moscow? Moldova Ukraine Belarus Lithuania Estonia

Belarus

The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located in: Geneva Luxembourg Strasbourg Paris Brussels

Brussels

Which of the following cities is not part of one of the Four Motors of Europe? Brussels Stuttgart Milan Lyon Barcelona

Brussels

Which of the following seas does not border Europe? Hint: This sea is actually a lake. Black Sea Baltic Sea Mediterranean Sea Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea

The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as: Catalonia Portugal Andalusia Basque Country Gibraltar

Catalonia

Where in Europe was the world's worst nuclear disaster? Moscow Berlin St. Petersburg Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Only the southern portion of which of the following islands was recently granted admission to the EU? Ireland Turkey Sicily Malta Cyprus

Cyprus

The Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is: Malta Sardinia Sicily Cyprus Crete

Cyprus

Slavic languages are typically found in what part of Europe? United Kingdom Eastern Europe Spain and its border countries Scandanavia

Eastern Europe

__________ has more in common with Finland than its other neighboring states and is therefore included as part of Northern Europe: Estonia Belarus Latvia Lithuania Kaliningrad

Estonia

The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is: Portugal Italy Spain France Germany

France

__________ dominates Western Europe demographically and economically. Germany France United Kingdom Italy Spain

Germany

Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory: Ceuta Cyprus Malta Gibraltar Kosovo

Gibraltar

What ruthless dictator ruled Nazi Germany from 1933 until 1945 and established the system leading to the genocide of over 11 million people during the Holocaust? Franco Mussolini Hitler Stalin

Hitler

**Select all that apply** Which European countries have actively erupting volcanoes? Greece Estonia the Czech Republic Ireland Iceland the Netherlands Germany Switzerland Spain Belarus

Iceland Spain

The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called: Kaliningrad Latvia the Baltic Corridor Estonia Leningrad

Kaliningrad

Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area? Milan Geneva Naples Rome Barcelona

Milan

Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries? Muslims Hispanics Chinese Russians North Africans

Muslims

Which of the following countries was formerly a member of the Warsaw Pact or known as a communist country? Romania France Portugal Sweden

Romania

The leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland is located in: the Bohemian Basin the Vistula Valley the Warsaw area the Baltic coastal zone Silesia

Silesia

Which of the following is not a state created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia? Macedonia Bosnia Slovakia Croatia Slovenia

Slovakia

From the end of World War II until 1990, Eastern Europe was dominated by the: Soviet Union Ottoman Turks European Community United States Hapsburg Empire

Soviet Union

The Western European state that is not a member of the European Union is: Luxembourg Austria Belgium the Netherlands Switzerland

Switzerland

What was the U.S. sponsored economic program designed to rebuild Western Europe after WWII? The Monroe Doctrine NATO The Warsaw Pact The Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan

What is a fjord? a region of the former Yugoslavia the new monetary unit of the European Union a flooded U-shaped glacial valley inlet a musical style developed in Iceland

a flooded U-shaped glacial valley inlet

Von Thunen in his "Isolated State" argued that five rings of human activity would develop around the central town or city. The first (or nearest) of these is: a belt of forest, still used for timber and firewood a zone of manufacturing a belt in which ranching prevails and animal products are generated a zone of intensive farming and dairying a broad zone of increasingly extensive field crops

a zone of intensive farming and dairying

_____________ forces are divisive to a nation. charismatic situational centrifugal disparitic centripetal

centrifugal

The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is know as: transferability supranationalism complementarity devolution irredentism

devolution

A primate city is the largest city in land size in a country.

false

Because of internal bickering, the European Union in 2008 contained fewer member-states than it did when founded in 1957.

false

The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is situated in the northern portion of that island, and is today once again ruled by the British government.

false

The balkanization of a region implies its political unification.

false

In what location would you find a polder? in Warsaw, Poland in Berlin, Germany in the Netherlands in the Alps

in the Netherlands