Physical Geography
Alps, Balkans, Apennines, Carpathians, Pyrenees
What mountain chain exists in Europe?
harmful precipitation caused by the trapping of waste gases from industrial areas
What is acid rain?
a period of time when eastern Europeans left their homelands to seek jobs and live among a less-repressive government
What was the end of the Cold War?
characteristic of....narrow, winding streets crowded with three or four story masonry buildings with little setback from the street
What is medieval landscape?
Eastern forms of Christianity found in Bulgaria, Greece, and Russia that were offically split from Roman Catholic church in 1054CE.
What is the Orthodox split?
An area of fertile rich soil used in European agriculture
What is the Northern European Plain?
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
What was the industrial revolution?
Public policies that encourage higher birth rates (example: extended maternity & paternity leave for parents of a newborn)
What are family-friendly policies?
protection for refugees who are victims of ethnic, religious, or political persecution in other parts of the world
What are asylum laws?
(geographies of) languages of Europe
What are Germanic, Slavic, and Romance?
a long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater
What are fjords?
a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands
What are polders in the Netherlands?
the lifting of border controls between countries, allowing for unimpeded access across international boundaries
What is the Schengen Agreement?
characteristic of...wide, ceremonial boulevards; large monumental structures, palaces, public squares, churches
What is Renaissance - Baroque landscape?
An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century A.D. by Saints Cyril and Methodius
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?