when countries work towards shared goals even though they remain separate countries
What is supranational cooperation
100
the common currency of the EU; not all member nations use this money
What is the Euro
100
the study of human populations including birth rates, life expectancy, migration...
What is demography
100
the gradual wearing away of Earth's surface by wind, water, ice and gravity
What is erosion
100
a group of people in a country who share the same unique culture and identity
What is ethnic group
200
centrifugal force
What is a force that divides people and countries
200
the headquarters of the EU
What is Brussels, Belgium
200
the number of old and young dependents who don't work compared with the number of working-age people in a country
What is dependency ratio
200
the creation and movement of glaciers
What is glaciation
200
an independent state or country who people share mostly the same common identity
What is a nation-state
300
a force that unites people and countries
What is centripetal force
300
one way the EU promotes a European cultural identity to help unify the countries of the EU
What is a flag or song (anthem) or Europe Day or the EU passport
300
the average age that a person can expect to live in a given country
What is life expectancy
300
the movement of the Earth's crust below the surface
What is tectonic movement
300
the former Soviet state that is now independent; there was a huge nuclear power plant explosion in this nation-state in 1986 that ruined the farming and logging
What is Belarus
400
a group of countries that acts as a single market, without trade barriers between the member countries
What is a common market
400
a centrifugal force that makes it difficult to unite the countries of the EU
What is different languages or different foods or different traditions or different national GDPs
400
birth rates are much greater than death rates so the population growth is this
What is rapid population growth
400
the mountains of Russia that lie between the Caspian and Black Seas; Sochi is here
What is the Caucasus Mountains
400
one of the former Soviet states that is on the Baltic Sea
What is Lithuania or Latvia or Estonia
500
the total sum of all the goods and services produced in a country in a year; the "wealth" of a country
What is gross domestic product or GDP
500
EU stands for this
What is the European Union
500
a problem created by negative population growth; much of Europe is experiencing this
What is limited workers, fewer to serve in the military, high dependency ratio, loss of jobs
500
the lake in eastern Russia that is the sister lake to Lake Tahoe; the largest lake in Russia