Vocab
Physically Astute
A Divided House
Save the Environment Man!
Misc.
100
Any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. It can also occur in the form of snow, fog, and tiny bits of dry material that settle to Earth:
What is acid rain?
100
Eastern Europe experiences this type of climate which exhibits large seasonal temperature contrasts with hot summers and cold winters:
What is humid-continental?
100
This is ethnic cleansing:
What is the expelling from a country or genocide of an ethnic group?
100
These are three resources found in Eastern Europe:
What are:
- Water
- Timber
- Zinc/Copper?
100
A region where political alliances are constantly splintering & fracturing based on ethnicity:
What is a shatter belt?
200
This is Balkanization:
What is a division of a region into smaller regions?
200
These are three landforms found in Eastern Europe:
What are:
- Balkan Mountains
- Hungarian Plain
- Carpathian Mountains?
200
A group of people of Indo-European origin and are the largest minority population in Europe:
What are the Roma?
200
These are three environmental problems that Eastern Europe consistently faces:
What are:
Problems:
- Acid Rain
- Deforestation
- Water Pollution?
200
In recent Eastern European news, a Russian invasion of this country appears close:
What is Ukraine?
300
The second largest river in Europe, passing through nine countries and emptying into the Black Sea:
What is the Danube River?
300
This is karst:
What is terrain dominated by limestone bedrock & characterized by rocky ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, & the absence of surface streams?
300
This is the most profitable economic sector of much of Eastern Europe:
What is the automobile manufacturing industry?
300
These are three solutions that Eastern European countries are taking to solve their environmental issues:
What are:
Solutions:
- Reforestation
- Purification Programs
- Governmental Agencies?
300
Much of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century was dominated by this economic & political system:
What is communism?
400
This is meltwater:
What is water formed by melting snow & ice?
400
These are three water systems in Eastern Europe:
What are:
- Danube River
- Oder River
- Lakes?
400
Today, Yugoslavia is this many different countries:
What is 7 different countries?
400
These are four causes of environmental problems in Eastern Europe:
What are illegal logging, rapid industrialization, acid rain & heavy reliance on coal?
400
Name the individuals in this photo:
Who are Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson & Zayn Malik?
500
A way of looking at the human and physical patterns on Earth and their relationships to one another:
What is spatial perspective?
500
These are the three climate regions in Eastern Europe:
What are:
- Humid Continental
- Semi-Arid
- Mediterranean?
500
First, define shatter belt region. Then, explain why the Balkans are considered a shatter belt region. Lastly, outline how the term, “Balkanization”, relates to this designation of the region:
What are:
- Eastern Europe is a shatter belt, or region of great political instability, that drove the area’s Balkanization, or the division of the region into smaller hostile regions?
- Yugoslavia attempted to reverse this process, since it combined smaller regions into one country, but it fell apart with the collapse of the Soviet Union?
- Power struggles led to civil war and ethnic cleansing, or the genocide of an ethnic group, and Balkanization has continued with countries declaring independence?
500
The action of renewing forest cover (as by natural seeding or by the artificial planting of seeds or young trees):
What is reforestation?
500
According to Metacritic, this is the highest-rated video game of all-time:
What is, "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"?