geography 3
What group has formed a rapidly growing minority presence in many European countries?
Muslims
The land body located directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain is?
Northern Africa
What country in the Discontinuous North (Europe) has benefited the most from North Sea?
Norway
Norway capital
Oslo
What is Siberia's importance to Russia?
Part of Russian Federation; natural resources
The Volga River is central to which important subregion?
Povolzhye
Significant oil and natural gas supplies have been found beneath where
The north sea
Which country wishes to become part of the European Union and but has been unsuccessful despite long-term negotiating?
turkey
The number of Federal Administrative Districts within the Russian Federation is?
7
The former Soviet Union dissolved in what year?
1991
When did German reunification take place? What were the results of unification?
3 October 1990 Benefits to German indusrty through the payment of the war debt.
How large is Russia is in ground size?
6,592,735 square miles
Is Christianity growing in Europe?
no
The Randstad conurbation connects the capital cities of?
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht
Northern and Southern Italy are divided by what?
Ancona Line
Russia is the world's largest state in what terms?
Area
The capital and primate city of Greece is:
Athens
Armenia is engaged in territorial conflict with which other former Soviet Socialist Republic?
Azerbaijan
What group of people look across their border to Iran because they share a common Shi'ite Muslim faith?
Azeris
What cities are part of the Four Motors of Europe?
Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalonia (Spain), Lombardia (Italy) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France).
What city is the leading oil center in Azerbaijan?
Baki (Baku)
What countries initiated the European Union?
Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany
The Benelux consists of what countries
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
The Danube River empties into what body of water?
Black Sea
Which state contains Serb, Croat, and Muslim populations that were finally brought together in 1995 at a U.S.-run peace conference?
Bosnia
What states were created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia?
Bosnia Macedonia Croatia Slovenia
The northeastern corner of Ireland remains under whose control?
British
The administrative headquarters of the European Union is located where?
Brussels
The Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just south of the Pyrenees Mountains that is centered on industrialized Barcelona is known as?
Catalonia
What Mountains lie in the corridor between the Black and Caspian seas?
Caucasus
Which Russian republic fought a (still unresolved) war for independence from Moscow during the 1990s?
Chechnya
What term is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies?
Continentality
The divided eastern Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey is?
Cyprus
The population of Russia is what size? What are the characteristics of the population?
Decreasing at an increasing rate
Greece's vegetation has been seriously reduced by centuries of what?
Deforestation
The United Kingdom consists of what countries
England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland, Irish Republic.
The only European country with coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the North Sea is
France
Spain and the United Kingdom are in dispute over what territory?
Gibraltar
The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus
Greek Cypriot
Chechen Republic capital
Grozny
What minority is large in Slovakia ?
Hungarian
The dominant religion in Chechnya is?
Islam
The Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland is called?
Kaliningrad
The new pipeline opened in 2006 between Baki (Baku) and Ceyhan carries Caspian Sea oil to a new terminal located on the?
Mediterranean Sea
The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by which mountain range?
Pyrenees
The most important oil and gas reserves in Russia's Far East are centered on?
Sakhalin
The European Parliament meets in where?
Strasbourg, France.
In general, what is the physical geography of Russia?
The broad European Plain, or Volga River Plain extends from the Ural Mountains to its western borders with Europe.
The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and sparse grasses) is known as?
Tundra
The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the?
Urals
Most of the population of Russia is found where?
Western part of the country
What treaty was key to modern Europe's state system?
Westphalia
Since the fall of communism in 1991, have Russian life expectancies increased or decreased?
decreased
The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy is known as what?
devolution
How does former East Germany compare economically to former West Germany?
east Germany is economically behind west Germany.
Europe's unofficial lingua franca (common language) is what
english
What are the migration trends in Europe
immigration in Europe is offsetting population decline.
What is the population growth of most countries in Europe?
increasing
Was the dispute over the Kurile Islands between Russia and Japan resolved?
no
Persistently frozen ground is known as:
permafrost
What major river in western Germany, enters the North Sea through the Netherlands and which passes through the Ruhr ?
rhine
Italy's economic core, no longer focused on Rome, is located today where
the Po River Valley
Modern supranationalism in Europe began with what?
the creation of Benelux in 1944
The great majority of Russia's inhabitants are concentrated to where in Russia?
west
