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Chapter 1A
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Demographics
Fact or Opinion
100
The slow movement of continents by the process associated with plate tectonics.
What is continental drift?
100
A group of tightly knit people possessing common bonds of language, ethnicity religion, and other shared cultural attributes.
What is a nation?
100
A sovereign state that contains a minuscule land area.
What is a microstate?
100
72 years for men and 80 years for women.
What is the life expectancy for Europeans?
100
The European parliament meets in Paris, France.
What is a fiction?
200
Literally, "country behind"
What is hinterland?
200
The downtown heart of a central city.
What is a CBD or central business district?
200
A place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored and transshipped.
What is an entrepot?
200
An average of 2.1 children per woman.
What is the number of children birthed per women needed to sustain a population?
200
There are 27, soon to be 28, EU member states.
What is a fact?
300
The gradual reduction of regional differences at the world scale resulting from increasing international cultural, economic, and political exchanges.
What is globalization?
300
A "common language".
What is lingua franca?
300
The slaughter and/or forced removal of one ethnic group from its homes and lands by a more powerful ethnic group.
What is ethnic cleansing?
300
597.6 million as of 2012.
What is the population of the European continent?
300
The Euro crisis is a economic crisis exacerbated by the recent adoption of a single currency in the EU.
What is a fact?
400
The number of people per unit area.
What is population density?
400
The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm.
What is Indo-European language family?
400
The fragmentation of a region into smaller political units.
What is balkanization?
400
2.3 million square miles.
What is the "land area of the European continent?
400
Switzerland is a landlocked location.
What is a fact?
500
The art and science of map making.
What is cartography?
500
Rhone-Alpes, Baden-Wurttemberg, Catalonia, and Lombardy.
What is the Four Motors of Europe?
500
The political dominance of one country or region by another.
What is hegemony?
500
$25,580
What is the per capita GNP in Europe?
500
The Euro is the best form of currency for EU member states.
What is an opinion?