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Vocabulary
100
This is the name of the large, flat, circular land in the Northern region of France.
What is the Paris Basin?
100
This man made boundary divided Berlin into two political regions from 1961 - 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
These three countries in Northeastern Europe make up the Benelux Countries.
What are Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg?
100
The people of Switzerland speak these three languages.
What are French, German and Italian?
100
This is a good that expires and goes bad, such as milk.
What is a perishable good?
200
This is the nickname for the Southeastern Region of France that runs along the Mediterranean.
What is the French Riviera?
200
This country was invaded by Germany beginning WWII.
What is Poland?
200
This is the term for land that has been reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands.
What is polder?
200
Switzerland's main agricultural production is focused on these two exports.
What are chocolate and cheese?
200
This is a form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region.
What is a dialect?
300
This is the nickname given to France because of its six sided shape.
What is the Hexagon?
300
This city, the 2nd largest in Germany, is a major center of trade and gives its name to a famous American meal.
What is Hamburg?
300
This a mound of stone and earth built by the Dutch to hold back water and create dry land.
What is a dike?
300
Switzerland is known for this industry, which is made secure because of the fact that Switzerland is neutral.
What is banking?
300
This is a style of paining, which developed in France, is formed by visual impressions made of color, light and shadows.
What is Impressionism?
400
This region of France is known primarily for is wine?
What is the Southwest?
400
This mountain range, which also runs through France, runs through the South of Germany.
What is the Alps?
400
Belgium did this to give smaller regions more control and ease ethnic tensions.
What is decentralize?
400
This city is the capital of Austria and is the birth place of classical music.
What is Vienna?
400
This is a long term downturn in an economy.
What is a recession?
500
This river, which runs through Eastern France, is the busiest waterway in the world.
What is the Rhine River?
500
The climate of Germany can best be described as ___________.
What is mild?
500
Luxembourg is smaller than this U.S. state.
What is Rhode Island?
500
Switzerland is divided into 26 regions called _________.
What are cantons?
500
This is an increase in the price of goods over time.
What is inflation?