Chapter 4 and 5 Questions - World Geography
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