Geography and Environmental Issues
Despite Europe's _____ ____, its environmental diversity is extraordinary.
What is small size?
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of Europe’s demography is the lack of _______ ______.
________ has always been an important component of nationalism and group identity in Europe.
What is Language?
The formerly _________ parts of Europe have fared less well as they continue to recover from decades of economic mismanagement.
What are communists?
The _______ _______ is the unquestioned economic focus of western Europe, with its high population density, intensive agriculture, large cities, and major industrial regions.
What is the European Lowland?
The EU has worked toward the goal of free movement of both people and goods within the larger European community.
What is migration within Europe?
As their mother tongue, __ percent of Europe’s population speaks a Germanic, Romance, or Slavic language, which are linguistic groups within the Indo-European family
By the late 19th century, _____________ had spread throughout Europe and, within decades, around the world.
The centerpiece of this geologic region is the prototypical mountain range, the Alps, running more than ___ miles from France to Slovenia.
European countries have a total fertility rate above the replacement level of ___.
What is 2.1?
Significant cultural borders in the Balkans are based on the 11th-century split of Christianity into Eastern and Western churches as well as on the division between Christianity and Islam.
What are their Religions?
Eastern Europe has historically been less developed economically than its Western counterpart.
What is less rich in natural resources?
Three factors explain Europe's impressive environmental diversity.
What is complex geology, Europe's extensive latitudinal range, and the history of human settlement?
Europe’s four largest countries are more typical of the region: three-quarters urban, with numerous large cities scattered among expansive rural landscapes.
Where are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy?
________ control of southeastern Europe, however, lasted until the empire’s demise in the early 20th century.
What is Ottoman?
Europe is the cradle of modern industrialism, with two fundamental innovations that made this Industrial Revolution possible
What are machines replaced with humans and inanimate energy sources powering the new machines?
Three major climate types characterize Europe.
What are the marine West Coast climates, Continental climates, and Mediterranean climates?
This agreement covers much of the EU, as well as several neighboring countries such as Switzerland and Norway that have opted to remain outside the EU.
What is the Schengen agreement?
New migration streams from _____ and ____ are profoundly influencing the dynamic cultural geography of Europe, but in some areas, the products of this recent cultural exchange are highly troubling.
Where are Africa and Asia?
In 1952, _____, _______, _____, the ___________, _______, and __________ ratified a treaty that joined them together in the European Coal and Steel Community.
Where are France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg?