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What is NATO? |
One of the world’s major international institutions. It is a political and military Alliance of 28 member countries from Europe and North America |
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How do the mountains in Europe differ from Americas |
Europe's mountains run West to East |
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fjord |
a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley. Norway and Iceland have these |
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Hanseatic League Bergen |
Until 1830s the biggest town in Norway, a major European trading and seafaring port and an important trading center for Hanseatic merchants |
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Dike |
a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea |
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Rhine River |
The Rhine is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German |
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Garzweiler |
large surface mine in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia; open pit mine |
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Port of Rotterdam |
The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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Alpine River |
France, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland |
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Peninsulas |
Scandinavian Iberian Italian Jutland Baltic |
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Europe's Bodies of Water |
Baltic Sea North Sea Norwegian Sea Black Sea Adriatic Sea Artic Ocean Atlantic Meditteranean |
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Central Uplands |
coal |
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Western Uplands |
Scandinavian Peninsula |
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Northern European Lowland |
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What region is most populated in Europe? |
Lowlands |
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Mount Vesuvius |
79 BC gases released killing people |
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Pompeii |
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Herculaneum |
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Mt Etna Sicily |
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Iceland Volcanos |
Main ones: Oraefajokul Eyjafjallajokull |
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EU28 depened on Nuclear power for how much of their total energy needs |
30% |
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Where is Air pollution the heaviest? |
former communist states Central and North Europe |
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Europe water pollution sources |
sewage, chemicals, agricultural plots and runoff, litter, petroleum |
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Which three seas are land locked and prone to pollution? |
Baltic, Mediterranean, and black sea |
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Who much of world's green house gasses does Europe emate |
One-quarter |
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one European resident makes how much energy compared to North American resident? |
half |
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What were the six EU Founding Members |
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Standards for EU Membership |
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EU governing institutions |
the EU has one executive branch and two legislative bodies the European commission acts like an executive branch of government each of 28 states gets one commitioner two legislative boes are the euro parliment and the concil of the EU |
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How long do the EU state commissioners serve per year? |
5 years |
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the Euro parliament is directly elected by EU citizen with each country electing a proportion of seats based on its population |
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how is the US Senate and the Council of the EU similar? |
they are more powerful of the two legislative bodies
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Discribe Economies of scale |
reduction in the unit cost of production that occur when goods and services are produced in large amounts results in an increased profits per unit |
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How many people does the EU economy now encompass? |
500 million people? |
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What is the joint economy in the EU? What percentage is it larger than the US? |
the joint economy is almost 15 trillion (PPP) (2010) about 5% larger than the US |
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How many countries use the Euro? |
24 |
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What is a key focus of the EU to stay economically competitive? |
keeping exports a central component of national economics |
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Where is the EU moving factories and why? |
They are being moved from wealthier EU countries to the more poor ones to boost their economy |
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What does NATO stand for? |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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What countries were the original NATO members? |
US, Canada, the countries of western Europe and Turkey |
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Why is the cost of food much more expensive in Europe? |
Drastic decline of labor and land in farming |
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Wha is the common Agricultural Program (CAP) |
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industrial jobs have decreased because how many people have switched to service economy? |
70% |
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what is considered a part of the services economy |
health care, education, finance, tourism, and information technology |
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How many jobs in the EU are related to tourism? |
1 in 8 jobs |
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what percentage of the EUs income is generated from tourism? |
13.5% |
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How many Europeans are there? |
about 739 million |
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how many of the European citizens are also members of the EU? |
508 million |
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Which country in the EU has the highest population? |
Germany |
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Where in Europe is the life expectancy close to 80 years old? |
North, west and southern Europe |
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What rate of natural increase is Europe in? |
a negative rate |
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by 2000 what percentage of Europeans were choosing to have no children at all? |
25% |
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what were the Schengen Accord |
a 1990s agreement that allows free movement of people and goods across common borders |
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What way were the Schengen Accord facilitated? |
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What is the Western Siberian Plain |
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Tundra |
treeless area, between ice caps and tree lines in arctic region subsoil permanently frozen |
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Taiga |
subartic forests |
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What is the highest peak in the Siberian region |
Mt. Elba |
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How does Russia's neglect to the environment affect the people? |
by 2000, 35 million people lived in regions where soil, air, and water is poisoned |
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Dzerzhinsk |
world record for most polluted city men life expectancy is 42, women is 47 |
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How does pollution affect Norilsk |
there is no tree for 30 miles |
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What happened in Chernobyl in 1986 |
the nuclear power plant exploded |
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Russia has the largest of what? |
Natural gas reserves major oil deposits forests |
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What russian lake was once the fourth largest in the world? |
Aral Sea |
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What happened to the Aral Sea? |
In the 1980s it shrank to three smaller lakes after losing 75% of its volume |
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Norilsk |
industrial city Nickel, copper and platinum |
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what issues came with the loss of the Aral Sea? |
nothing but a desert killed the economy contamination and lack of water quality |
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What are oligarchs? |
individuals who are so wealthy that they wield enormous political power |
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Gazprom |
one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world |
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Examples of water conservation |
daily bathing in public baths mountain snowmelt is captured and placed in underground conduits |
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What are Conduits? |
canals that carry water to cities |
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Where was the world's largest oil spill? |
kikut during the Gulf War
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where is the most fresh water |
Brazil |
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Where is the least amount of freshwater? |
Turkey |
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virtual water |
the volume of water used to produce all that a person consumes in a year included in a country's total is the water to produce it's imported food |
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What is Salination |
occurs when irrigation is used in hot, dry environments; water evaporates, leaving behind a salty residue of minerals or other chemicals |
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Drip irrigation |
ca reduce the amount of water used, thereby limiting salinization, but poor states have been unable to afford this somewhat complex device |
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increasing access to water |
seawater desalination groundwater pumping dams and reservoirs: can create international problems when deciding who owns the water virtual water and land |
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What issues have arisen internationally because of dams and reservoirs? |
Turkey made a dam and it lowered the water flow that goes into Iraq and Syria |
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What is Desertification? |
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What is the reason behind this region's high population growth rate? |
The persistent low status of women Most of their success is based on the success of their kids so they have a lot Less than 20% of women worked outside of the home in Saudi Arabia Only 6 countries of the region have high than 30% of the women woking outside of the home |
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what is the largest city in the region, and one of the largest in the world? |
Cairo |
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Arab Spring |
Political Protests going on since 2011 |
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What/who started the revolt? |
Tunisia, a fruit vendor, started it after being harassed by police officers and he lit himself on fire led to mass protests |
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Why do Muslims object to globalism |
some object to the liberalization of women's roles especially educated and active outside the home oppose to the computer age |
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What two countries in the middle east had female prime ministers? |
Israel and Turkey |
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What percentage of women make up the university population in North Africa? What is the workforce percentage? |
70% university 5% workforce |
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5 rivers in Sub-Africa |
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Rift Valley Lakes |
Lake Tanganyika: 2nd deepest and world's longest freshwater Lake Malawi |
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volcanoes |
Mt. Kenya Mt. Kilimanjaro 'Roof of Africa' |
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Where does most rain come from? |
Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) |
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Why is the Horn of Africa the dryest? |
The wind patterns? |
