Capitals
Key Terms
European Union
Population Dilemmas
Trans-Boundary Pollution
100
London
What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
100
A group of countries that acts as a single market without trade barriers between countries.
What is a common market?
100
A force that divides people and countries
What is a centrifugal force?
100
The average age that a person in a given population can expect to live to.
What is life expectancy?
100
A river and all the streams that flow into it
What is a river system?
200
Berlin
What is the capital of Germany?
200
Rain that can damage the environment because it contains acid from the factory smoke and car exhaust. It can damage plants, fish, animals and even buildings.
What is Acid Rain?
200
A force that unites people and countries
What is a centripetal force?
200
The study of human populations, including how they change due to births, deaths, aging and migration.
What is demography?
200
A form of energy that comes from nuclear reactions. It has not smell or taste, but can be harmful to living things.
What is nuclear radiation?
300
Prague
What is the capital of the Czech Republic?
300
The number of old and young dependents who don't work compared with the working-age population.
What is a dependency ratio?
300
This made it no longer necessary to exchange money when traveling to different European countries.
What is the creation of the Euro/common market?
300
Women who choose to focus on their education or career and the high cost of raising a child are examples of what?
What are factors that contribute to negative population growth?
300
This event occurred when its reactor exploded and released a radioactive cloud into the air.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
400
Warsaw
What is the capital of Poland?
400
A form of international cooperation in which countries give up some control of their affairs as they work together to achieve shared goals.
What is supranational cooperation?
400
Wealthier Western European countries are concerned that so much money is being spent in Central and Eastern Europe. Some Western Europeans worry about losing jobs to other EU workers who are willing to work for less money
What are differences between western and eastern EU countries that divide the EU?
400
What are factors that contribute to negative population growth?
What is an aging population problem?
400
These help reduce acid rain by taking harmful pollutants from factories out of the air.
What are smokestack scrubbers?
500
Vienna
What is the capital of Austria?
500
Pollution that starts in one country and crosses boundaries into other countries, usually carried by wind or water.
What is trans-boundary pollution?
500
A nation can loose economic, social and political power because of this population problem
What is negative population growth?
500
These two countries (or regions) were affected by the Chernobyl disaster because their soil and water were contaminated by nuclear radiation. Their fish and reindeer were also no longer safe to eat.
What are Belarus and Sweden (Lapland)?