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Part Four - Europe

Quick Review

Quick Review

This Quick Review exercise is meant to test your understanding of the concepts presented in Chapters 10, 11, and 12 of Part Four.

This activity contains 60 questions.

	Europe is considered a continent.    True  False

	The population of Europe has ceased to increase.    True  False

	The rise of the high-tech industry has done much to address the problems associated with deindustrialization.    True  False

	There are sharp cultural boundaries in Europe.    True  False

	Whatever population increases there are in Europe are the result of immigration.    True  False

	Geographically, deindustrialization and rejuvenation occur in the same regions.    True  False

	Over two-thirds of Europe's independent states possess a coast.    True  False

	Most European mountain ranges are oriented in an east-west direction.    True  False

	After Asians, the European populations are the longest lived in the world.    True  False

	The term postindustrial denotes the rise of dominance of service industries in modern Europe, coincident with deindustrialization.    True  False

	As in other world migrations, the great mountain ranges of southern Europe have historically constituted significant barriers to human movement and interaction.    True  False

	The North Atlantic Drift is a cold ocean current.    True  False

	Europe as a culture resides in its rural settings.    True  False

	Ethnicity is territorial by nature, and territoriality provides the fodder for nationalism.    True  False

	Nationality can derive as much from region and place as from cultural affiliation.    True  False

	A distinguishing trait of the Mediterranean climate is the concentration of precipitation in the summer season, followed by dry winters.    True  False

	Counterurbanization has had a distinct effect in Europe.    True  False

	France is characterized by a unitary state.    True  False

	The pronounced seasonality of precipitation in the Mediterranean basin is reflective of its transitional position between humid marine west coast climates to the north and the parched Sahara Desert to the south.    True  False

	European cities are far more compact, have less suburban sprawl, and the inhabitants are more likely to be apartment dwellers.    True  False

	The most important language frontier in west Europe separates Romance speech in the south from the Germanic tongues of the north.    True  False

	The inner ring of a European city began as a slum outside the city walls.    True  False

	The Dutch-speakers in Belgium are called Walloons.    True  False

	The remnant forests of Europe are basically artificially planted tree farms.    True  False

	The middle ring of the European city was added during the Industrial Revolution.    True  False

	The French speakers in Belgium are known as Flemings.    True  False

	There are no virtually no natural (virgin woodlands) forests anywhere in Europe.    True  False

	The southern concentation of mountain ranges has formed largely because of ancient volcanic activity.    True  False

	The "Great European Plain" stretches from the Atlantic coast of France northeastward to the western border of Poland.    True  False

	Ireland is the westernmost European country.    True  False

	Germanic tongues (languages) are spoken in Northern Europe.    True  False

	English is considered to be a Germanic language.    True  False

	The United Kingdom adopted the Euro as its primary currency in 2002, and so did Sweden and Denmark.    True  False

	Nearly half of the people in Bulgaria ascribe to the Orthodox faith.    True  False

	The Aegean Sea is located between Greece and Italy.    True  False

	Bratislava is the captial city of Croatia.    True  False

	The first German "Reich" arose over a thousand years ago only to fragment into small principalities and duchies.    True  False

	Europe is experiencing two diametrically opposed trends politically -- separtism and union.    True  False

	The capital city of Belgium is Antwerp.    True  False

	Today a majority of European workers work in agriculture.    True  False

	In 2002 the remnant Yugoslavia consisted of only two republics and changed its name to Serbia & Montenegro.    True  False

	The only sizeable linguistic minority in Romania is Italian.    True  False

	A total fertility rate of 1.9 is required in European nations to prevent a population decline.    True  False

	The nation of Czechia is now a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).    True  False

	The "Mezzogiorno" region of Italy is the wealthiest portion of the country.    True  False

	Germany is a relatively new country.    True  False

	Iceland is a member of the Eurpean Union.    True  False

	To a degree the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) serves as the military arm of the European Union (EU).    True  False

	The term post-industrial denotes the rise in service industries in modern Europe.    True  False

	Metropolitan London, England has a population density over 1300 people per square mile.    True  False

	The United Kingdom fragmented in the 1920s when Ireland broke away and became the Republic of Ireland (all but Northern Ireland which remains part of the United Kingdom).    True  False

	Modern day Europe has two different alphabets that are used in different regions of the continent.    True  False

	The North Sea is located between Finland and Sweden.    True  False

	Secondary industries are those involved in extracting minerals from the Earth and the sea.    True  False

	When Poland was reborn as a nation after World War I its capital city became Warsaw.    True  False

	The root of the Finnish language is Germanic.    True  False

	In the 1950s western Europe began moving toward a supernational federalism.    True  False

	Primary industries are those involved in extracting minerals from the earth and the sea.    True  False

	More than 1000 years ago several Slavic tribes banded together to form the nucleus of the Polish state.    True  False

	Belgium is Europe's most urbanized country.    True  False

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