Midterm Test - Europe
Which of the following cities is located in the Randstad conurbation?
Amsterdam
Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the
Ancona Line
The capital and primate city of Greece is
Athens
Which former Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Mensk (Minsk), also called White Russia, is still strongly linked to Moscow?
Belarus
The Danube River empties into the
Black Sea
Which state contains Serb, Croat, and Muslim populations that were finally convinced to end their fighting in 1995 at a U.S.-run peace conference?
Bosnia
Which of the following countries contains the busiest international airport in Europe?
Britain
The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located in
Brussels
Which of the following cities is NOT part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
Brussels
The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as
Catalonia
___ is the general term for a large, megalopolis-like urban complex that is formed by the coalescence of two or more metropolitan areas.
Conurbation
Which city in the Northern Europe serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city?
Copenhagen
After the breakup of Yugoslavia this state ended up with the longest coastline on the Adriatic Sea
Croatia
The divided eastern Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is
Cyprus
Which part of Europe is poorest?
Eastern Europe
Europe's unofficial lingua franca (common language) today
English
The country located on the Jutland Peninsula and the smallest state (in area) in Northern Europe is
Estonia
___________ has more in common, ethnically and linguistically, with Finland than its other neighboring states and is therefore included as part of Northern Europe
Estonia
After its medieval period of prominence, the Po Plain has lost nearly all of its national importance within Italy.
False
Because of internal bickering, the European Union in 2016 contained fewer member-states than it did when it was founded in 1957.
False
Denmark, because of its location south of the waterways that lead to the entrance of the Baltic Sea, is not considered part of the region of Northern Europe.
False
Due largely to its peripheral location, Northern Europe remains largely underdeveloped.
False
Most countries in Europe exhibit significant population growth.
False
Northern England, well endowed with major industrial areas, is the United Kingdom's most affluent subregion.
False
Of the four landscape regions in Europe, the Central Uplands has been the realm's leading avenue for internal migrations and external invasions.
False
Stockholm is Norway's capital city.
False
The Basque region of Spain is one of the poorest in the country
False
The Randstad conurbation connects the capital cities of Belgium and the Netherlands.
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 Ruhr is located in the Paris Basin.
False
The United Kingdom, a charter member of the European Common Market, quit that organization in disagreement in 1973.
False
The balkanization of a region implies its strong political unification.
False
The city of Paris has great advantages of site, but major disadvantages in its situation.
False
The number of adherents to Christianity is growing in Europe.
False
The spatial interaction principle of complementarity refers to the ability to move a good at a bearable cost.
False
There are no members of the European Union in the region of Eastern Europe.
False
The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is
France
Which of the following was once a clear example of a European nation-state?
France
Which country is NOT currently affected by forces of devolution?
Germany
Which of the following nations did not unify until the late 20th century?
Germany
The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus?
Greek Cypriot
Slovakia contains a large _______ minority.
Hungarian
The country in Northern Europe that is NOT located on the European mainland is ___.
Iceland
Which country in Mediterranean Europe was a charter member of the European Union?
Italy
The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called
Kaliningrad
________ is Russia's exclave in Europe.
Kaliningrad
Residents of what French city are the wealthiest?
Paris
A country's leading urban center, disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national feelings, is known as its ___ city.
Primate
The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by a high range named the ___ Mountains.
Pyrenees
The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?
Pyrenees
The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the
Rhine
Which major city is not located in the North European Lowland?
Rome
Germany's Ruhr industrial complex is linked via the Rhine River to the port of
Rotterdam
____________ voted in a referendum in 2014 to remain part of the United Kingdom.
Scotland
The industrial heartland of Poland is located in
Silesia
Although reunified since 1990, former East Germany still lags economically behind former West Germany.
True
Although the Po Plain has great agricultural advantages, this lowland today is experiencing the greatest development of manufacturing in Mediterranean Europe.
True
An entrepôt, such as Copenhagen, is a place where goods are collected, stored, and transshipped.
True
Bratislava is to Slovakia as Sofia is to Bulgaria.
True
Britain's Midlands, Germany's Ruhr, and Poland's Silesia all possessed major coal deposits that helped launch Industrial Revolutions.
True
Bulgaria, which did not appear on the map until 1878, joined the EU in 2007.
True
Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.
True
Northern Europe's three largest countries in territorial size all contain their major concentrations of population in the southern part of their national territory.
True
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
True
Regionally, Iceland is a part of Northern Europe.
True
Switzerland is neither a NATO nor an EU member.
True
The European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, France.
True
The Treaty of Westphalia is key to understanding the origin of modern Europe's state system.
True
The law of the primate city holds that a country's leading city is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling.
True
The modern era of supranationalism in Europe began with the creation of Benelux in 1944.
True
The northeastern corner of Ireland historically was a haven for English and Scottish Protestants and remains under British control.
True
Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places.
True
Which of the following countries does not belong to the European Union?
Ukraine
Which two physical landscapes are on the Iberian Peninsula
Western Uplands and Alpine System
Regions that produce surpluses of goods needed elsewhere exhibit
complementarity
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as
devolution
An unusual aspect of Albania is its
dominantly Muslim population
Centrifugal
forces divide a nation
Northern Europe
has a largely inhospitable higher-latitude climate
The Industrial Revolution in Europe
initially was focused in Britain, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged
Europe's political revolution
involved progress toward parliamentary representation and democracy
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
irredentism
The population of Northern Ireland
is overwhelmingly Catholic
the North European Lowland
is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions
German reunification
occurred in 1990
Europe's relative location is
one of centrality within the land hemisphere
Which of the following countries was part of the group that initiated the European Union?
the Netherlands
Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is today located
the Po River Valley
The Polish language belongs to which language group?
the Slavic Group
Which of the following is NOT an example of European supranationalism?
the United Kingdom's position on the European Monetary Union
The term balkanization refers to
the division and fragmentation of a subregion of Eastern Europe
Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath
North Sea
The land body located directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain is
Northern Africa
Which of the countries in Northern Europe have benefited the most from North Sea oil?
Norwary
Even more than the United Kingdom, the European country that has benefited most from the North Sea oil boom is ___.
Norway
Many European countries are experiencing flat or declining population counts because of
Low birth rates
Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is now centered on the city of ___.
Milan
Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area?
Milan
Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries?
Muslims
Which of the following is not a state created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia?
Slovakia
Which country in Mediterranean Europe confronts a significant devolutionary movement among its Basque population?
Spain
Which country was NOT a founding member of NATO?
Spain
An international cooperative venture involving the voluntary participation of three or more countries in an economic or political association is known as ___.
Supernationalism
What was the US-sponsored economic program designed to rebuild Western Europe after World War II?
The Marshal Plan
