Western Europe
Question: Parcels of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea through the use of dikes are called what?
Answer: Polders
Question: What is the name of the railway that extends 5,778 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok?
Answer: Trans-Siberian Railway
Question: What is a "shatter belt"?
Answer: A region constantly under political pressures and influenced by surrounding countries
Question: The Iberian Peninsula includes which three countries/principalities?
Answer: Portugal, Spain, and Andorra
Question: What is the largest desert in the world, dominating North Africa?
Answer: Sahara
Question: What is a foehn, and where is it experienced?
Answer: A warm, dry wind in the winter experienced in the Alps
Question: True or False: Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass.
Answer: True
Question: What type of topography is produced by the erosion and collapse of caves?
Answer: Karst Topography
Question: What are the two major mountain ranges prominently featured in Southern Europe?
Answer: The Pyrenees and the Alps
Question: What are oases?
Answer: Fertile spots in a desert where water is found
Question: Which Western European nation is noted as being neutral and having the strongest economy?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: What mountain range is often considered the dividing line between European Russia and Asian Russia?
Answer: Ural Mountains
Question: Who was Lech Walesa, and what did he lead?
Answer: Head of the Solidarity trade union in Poland who demanded changes in the 1980s
Question: What was the "Risorgimento"?
Answer: The political movement to unite the Italian Peninsula
Question: What are the original inhabitants of the Maghreb region called?
Answer: Berbers
Question: In low-context cultures like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, relationships can exist on what level for a long time?
Answer: Surface level
Question: The two reforms instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika means ________, and glasnost means ________.
Answer: Perestroika means "Reconstructing"; Glasnost means "Openness"
Question: What does "Balkanization" refer to?
Answer: The tendency of ethnically and religiously diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations
Question: Ancient Greece saw the development of which two famous city-states?
Answer: Athens and Sparta
Question: What is the staple food of the Maghreb, and what is the staple food of the Sahel?
Answer: Couscous (Maghreb); Millet (Sahel)
Question: What are "passive houses," and what is their purpose?
Answer: Structures designed for extreme energy efficiency/conservation
Question: What is privatization in the context of Russia's economy?
Answer: The transfer of formerly government-owned assets to private ownership
Question: What peace agreement, brokered by President Bill Clinton in 1995, aimed to end the conflict in Bosnia?
Answer: Dayton Peace Accords
Question: What sector drives all the Southern European economies?
Answer: Service sector
Question: What structure was built on the Nile River that stopped its yearly floods?
Answer: Aswan High Dam