Ch 12, 13, 14

Question 0

Uplands

Answer 0

are hills or very low mountains that may contain mesas and high plateaus

Question 1

fjords

Answer 1

steep U-shaped valleys that connect to the sea and that filled with seawater after the glaciers melted.

Question 2

Meseta

Answer 2

the central plateau of Spain

Question 3

Mastiff Central

Answer 3

the uplands of France, which account for about one-sixth of French lands

Question 4

Peat

Answer 4

partially decayed plant matter found in bogs

Question 5

North Atlantic Drift

Answer 5

a current of warm water from the tropics, flows near Europe’s west coast

Question 6

Mistral

Answer 6

a cold, dry wind fro the north

Question 7

sirocco

Answer 7

a hot steady south wind that blows from North Africa across the Med. Sea into Southern Europe

Question 8

polder

Answer 8

land that is reclaimed by diking and draining

Question 9

seaworks

Answer 9

structures that are used to control the sea’s destructive impact on human life.

Question 10

terpen

Answer 10

high earthen platforms used in seaworks

Question 11

Zuider Zee

Answer 11

former inlet of the North Sea in the Netherlands

Question 12

Ijesselmeer

Answer 12

a freshwater lake separated from the North Sea by a dike and bordered by ploders

Question 13

city-state

Answer 13

is a political unit made up of a city and its surrounding areas

Question 14

republic

Answer 14

a government in which citizens elect representatives to rule in their name

Question 15

Crusades

Answer 15

a series of wars to take the Holy Land from the Muslims

Question 16

Renaissance

Answer 16

a time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th through 16th centuries; it began in the Italian city-states and spread north to all of Europe

Question 17

aqueducts

Answer 17

structures that carried water for long distances

Question 18

Benelux

Answer 18

the economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

Question 19

Reformation

Answer 19

a period when many Christians broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Protestant churches

Question 20

feudalism

Answer 20

a political system in which powerful lords owned most of the land

Question 21

Nationalism

Answer 21

the belief that people should be loyal to their nation, the people with whom they share land, culture, and history

Question 22

Holocaust

Answer 22

a program of mass murder of two-thirds of European Jews and the murder of other minorities.

Question 23

Berlin Wall

Answer 23

a wall erected by East Germany in 1961 to cut the capitol of Berlin in two, and later dismantled in 1989

Question 24

Nordic Countries

Answer 24

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden

Question 25

parliament

Answer 25

a representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed

Question 26

Silicon Glen

Answer 26

the section of Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh, named for its high concentration of high-tech companies

Question 27

Euro

Answer 27

a common currency proposed by the European Union for its member nations

Question 28

Cultural Crossroads

Answer 28

a place where various cultures cross paths

Question 29

Balkanization

Answer 29

the process of breaking up a region into small, mutually hostile units

Question 30

Satellite Nations

Answer 30

nations dominated by another country

Question 31

Market Economy

Answer 31

a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers.

Question 32

folk art

Answer 32

is produced by rural people with traditional lifestyles instead of by professional artists

Question 33

Anti-semitism

Answer 33

discrimination against Jewish people

Question 34

Slobodan Milošević

Answer 34

Serbian leader who tried to increase Serbia's power over Yugoslavia

Question 35

South Slavs

Answer 35

Slavic people who migrated from Poland and Russia and settled in the Balkan Peninsula.

Question 36

ethnic cleansing

Answer 36

the policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group through violence

Question 37

KLA(Kosovo Liberation Army)

Answer 37

a group that fought against the Serbian attempts to control Kosovo in the 1990s

Question 38

Vojislav Kostunica

Answer 38

Reform Yugoslavian leader

Question 39

Cyanide

Answer 39

a deadly poison, flowed in the Tisza River in Hungary

Question 40

European Environmental Agency

Answer 40

an agency that provide the European Union with reliable info. about the environment

Question 41

smog

Answer 41

a brown haze that occurs when the gases released by burning fossil fuels are released and react with sunlight to create harmful chemicals

Question 42

ozone

Answer 42

a form of gas that causes health problems

Question 43

particulates

Answer 43

very small particles of liquid or solid