#4 World Geo 1300, Europe, Greene
*****96. Bratislava is to Slovakia as Sofia is to Bulgaria.
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***31. The Discontinuous North A) is comprised of the Scandinavian countries, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden B) has a largely inhospitable higher-latitude climate C) is entirely separated by water from the rest of Europe D) is the least developed region of Europe, due to its peripheral location E) has always been able to exploit abundant natural resources
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53. Which former Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Mensk (Minsk), also called White Russia, is still strongly linked to Moscow?
A) Belarus
59. Which state contains Serb, Croat, and Muslim populations that were finally brought together in 1995 at a U.S.-run peace conference?
A) Bosnia
15. Which of the following cities is NOT part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?
A) Brussels
3. Regions that produce surpluses of goods needed elsewhere exhibit ______:
A) Complementarity
45. The divided eastern Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is:
A) Cyprus
14. The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as:
A) Devolution
35. ___________ has more in common, ethnically and linguistically, with Finland than its other neighboring states, and is therefore included as part of The Discontinuous North .
A) Estonia
46. The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus?
A) Greek Cypriot
6. Europe's political revolution:
A) Involved progress toward parliamentary representation and democracy
52. The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called:
A) Kaliningrad
39. Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area?
A) Milan
16. Which of the following groups have formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries?
A) Muslims
21. German reunification __________________:
A) Occurred in 1990
24. Which of the following statements is true?
A) Paris initially benefited from an excellent site. B) Paris initially benefited from an excellent situation.
23. The Benelux consists of these countries.
A. The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
26. Which of the following cities is located in the Randstad conurbation?
B) Amsterdam
34. Which city in the Discontinuous North serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city?
B) Copenhagen
9. Europe's unofficial lingua franca (common language) is:
B) English
54. Slovakia contains a large _______ minority.
B) Hungarian
2. The North European Lowland:
B) Is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions
19. Which country in the Discontinuous South was a charter member of the European Union?
B) Italy
41. The land body located directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain is:
B) Northern Africa
32. Which of the countries in the Discontinuous North has benefited the most from North Sea oil?
B) Norway
37. Which country in the Discontinuous South confronts a significant devolutionary movement among its Basque population?
B) Spain
38. Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today in:
B) The Po River Valley
47. A sub region of the Discontinuous South is a zone of politico-geographical splintering and fracturing known as:
C) A shatter belt
44. The capital and primate city of Greece is:
C) Athens
25. The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located in:
C) Brussels
42. The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as:
C) Catalonia
8. __________ forces divide a nation.
C) Centrifugal
10. The three principles of spatial interaction are:
C) Complementarity, intervening opportunity, transferability
20. The major river in western Germany, which enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr is the ______:
C) Elbe/ D) Rhine
7. Which of the following was once a clear example of a European nation-state?
C) France
4. Which of the following is CORRECT regarding immigration trends in Europe?
C) Immigration in Europe is offsetting population decline.
5. The Industrial Revolution in Europe:
C) Initially was focused in Britain, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to power engines emerged
30. The population of Northern Ireland:
C) Is mostly Protestant
28. Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath the:
C) North Sea
36. The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?
C) Pyrenees
11. Which country wishes to become part of the European Union and but has been unsuccessful despite long-term negotiating?
C) Turkey
50. Which of the following countries in the Eastern Periphery does NOT form part of the European Union?
C) Ukraine
57. Bulgarians during the Soviet period were loyal to Moscow because:
C) the Russians were responsible for driving the Turks from this area
40. Northern and Southern Italy are divided by the:
D) Ancona Line
49. The Danube River empties into the:
D) Black Sea
22. The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is:
D) France
17. _______ dominates the Mainland Core demographically and economically
D) Germany
55. 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:
D) Irredentism
1. Europe's relative location is ____:
D) One of centrality within the land hemisphere
18. Germany's Ruhr industrial complex is linked via the Rhine River to the port of:
D) Rotterdam
56. The largest ethnic minority in Ukraine are the:
D) Russians
51. The industrial heartland of Poland is located in:
D) Silesia
58. Which of the following is NOT a State created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia?
D) Slovakia
27. Identify the country in Europe's Mainland Core that is NOT a member of the European Union.
D) Switzerland
13. Which of the following countries was part of the group that initiated the European Union?
D) The Netherlands
48. The term Balkanization refers to:
D) The division and fragmentation of a sub region of the Discontinuous South of Europe
29. The United Kingdom consists of:
D) Wales, England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland
33. The country located on the Jutland Peninsula and the smallest state (in area) in the Discontinuous North is:
E) Denmark
43. Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over which piece of territory:
E) Gibraltar
12. Which of the following is NOT an example of European supranationalism?
E) The United Kingdom's position toward the European Monetary Union
60. An unusual aspect of Albania is:
E) its dominantly Muslim population
61. Of the four landscape regions in Europe, the Central Uplands has been the realm's leading avenue for internal migrations and external invasions.
F
63. Most countries in Europe have significant population growth.
F
64. The number of adherants to Christianity is growing in Europe.
F
68. The spatial interaction principle of complementarity refers to the ability to move a good at a bearable cost.
F
72. Because of internal bickering, the European Union in 2009 contained fewer member-states than it did when founded in 1957.
F
74. The United Kingdom, a charter member of the European Common Market, quit that organization in disagreement in 1973.
F
76. The Ruhr is located in the Paris Basin.
F
77. The city of Paris has great advantages of site, but major disadvantages in its situation.
F
79. The Randstad conurbation connects the capital cities of Belgium and the Netherlands.
F
84. The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is situated in the northern portion of that island, and is today once again ruled by the British government.
F
86. Due largely to its peripheral location, the Discontinuous North remains largely underdeveloped.
F
88. Stockholm is Norway's capital city. .
F
89. 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 the Discontinuous North.
F
91. After its medieval period of prominence, the Po Plain has lost nearly all of its national importance within Italy.
F
92. Although the Po Plain has great agricultural advantages, what marks this lowland today is the greatest development of manufacturing in Mediterranean Europe.
F
94. There are no members of the European Union in the Eastern Periphery.
F
95. The balkanization of a region implies its political unification.
F
98. Albania was part of former Yugoslavia.
F
99. Kosovo is a country fully recognized by all other countries.
F
100. Bulgaria, which did not appear on the map until 1878, joined the EU in 2007.
T
62. The Treaty of Westphalia is key to modern Europe's state system.
T
65. Although it pursued the acquisition of territory and precious metals, mercantilism was not concerned with actively spreading Christianity throughout the New World.
T
66. Britain's Midlands, Germany's Ruhr, and Poland's Silesia all possessed major coal deposits that helped launch Industrial Revolutions.
T
67. Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance between two places.
T
69. The Law of the Primate City holds that a country's leading city is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling.
T
70. Modern supranationalism in Europe began with the creation of Benelux in 1944.
T
71. The European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, France.
T
73. Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.
T
75. The leading states of the region we have defined as the Mainland Core are France and Germany.
T
78. Although reunified since 1990, former East Germany still lags economically behind former West Germany.
T
80. To a considerable degree, Belgium and the Netherlands are in a position of economic complementarity.
T
81. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. Scotland, and.
T
82. Northern England, well endowed with major industrial areas, is the United Kingdom's most affluent subregion.
T
83. The northeastern corner of Ireland historically was a haven for English and Scottish Protestants and remains under British control.
T
85. Regionally, Iceland is a part of the Discontinuous North.
T
87. The three largest countries in the Discontinuous North all contain their major concentrations of population in the southern part of their national territory.
T
90. An entrepôt, such as Copenhagen, is a place where goods are collected, stored, and transshipped.
T
93. Greece's vegetation has been seriously reduced by centuries of deforestation.
T
97. Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
T
