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100
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
What is Ms. Hall's favorite C. American food?
What is plantains?
100
This European country started the tradition of democracy as  a form of government?
What is Greece?
100
Most Members of the European union today have adopted  this as the excepted form of money.
What is the euro?
200
Which European country is made up of only only islands?
What is the United Kingdom?
200
The largest mountain range in S. America
What is Andes Mountains?
200
“Help us prevent slash & burning of the Amazon! A track of land, over 2,000 acres,was burnt by a cattle farmer to make room for grazing. We pride ourselves on the fact that we save thousands of acres every  year from being burnt for agricultural cash cropping and cattle land. By selectively harvesting a few trees per acre we can assure that the forest will be able to be re-harvested in as little as 10 years.” Who said this quote?
What is an environmentalist?
200
This country that is a peninsula in the shape of a leg with a boot.
What is Italy?
200
What was the reason the Berlin Wall was built? A To draw in tourism B To stop American immigration C To divide communist east and democratic west D To encourage artistic expression through graffiti
To divide communist east and democratic west Germany
300
The eastern border that separates Europe and Asia.
What is the Ural Mountains?
300
The river system that makes up the world’s second largest river and supports the rain forests of Brazil is called...
What is the Amazon River?
300
NAFTA or the North American Free Trade Agreement, created the largest unified trading bloc in the world.  The nations that agreed to this are__________, _____________, and__________.
What are the United States, Canada and Mexico?
300
An agreement between European nations to make trading  easier.
What is the European Union?
300
The holocaust is an example of____________ against the Jewish people, during WWII.
What is genocide?
400
The photograph above depicts a hillside in Peru. What is the purpose for altering the land in this way? A To make farming easier on a steep hillside. B To make it easier to climb to the top. C To make the hill safe so people don’t fall. D To make it possible to mine the hillside.
What is to make farming easier on a steep hillside?
400
From the list of competing interest groups below, which one wants to preserve the Brazilian rain forest as it is for generations?  A Environmentalists  B Coffee plantation owners C Government leaders D Cattle ranchers
What is Environmentalists?
400
A lasting effect of the Spanish colonizing Central America is  that almost all of the countries have this religion as their most popular religion.
What is Roman Catholicism?
400
The “Cold War” took place between the end of WWII and the 1990's. It was between the Western European nations allied  with the Untied States, against the counties of Eastern  Europe, allied with ...
What is the Soviet Union?
400
This group of religions formed out of protests to the practices of the Catholic Church in the 1500's.
What is Protestant churches?
500
Double Jeopardy: The way in which the United States and Europe similar today.
What is industrialization and standard of living?
500
One of the most important issues facing Brazil today is... A Access for farmers to grow food B The use of land for ranching C Drilling for oil D Destruction of the rain forest
What is destruction of the rain forest?
500
Most people live along this area in Central and S. America rather than the dense rain forests located in the middle of the continent.
What is near the coastline?
500
Based on what you have learned about Europe, which statement below, best describes the continent? A All the nations in Europe are very similar. B The people of Europe all speak similar languages. C Although Europe is relatively small as a continent, it is  rich in history and culture. D It is becoming less diverse as it increases technology.
What is C, Although Europe is relatively small as a continent, it is rich in history and culture.
500
England’s government is classified as a _______________________ , because they have both a queen and a parliament.
What is a constitutional monarchy?