Social Studies Ch. 12 Europe Today

Front 1

great britan is seperated from the rest of europe by...

Back 1

the english channel

Front 2

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland makes...

Back 2

The United Kingdom

Front 3

many people in _______ and _______ herd sheep.

Back 3

Scotland , Wales

Front 4

The United Kingdom is a major _______ country

Back 4

industrial

Front 5

The UK has a ________ monarchy and a ______ democracy

Back 5

constitutional
parliamentary

Front 6

The Republic of Ireland occupies the southern 5/6 of the island of _______________

Back 6

Ireland

Front 7

Regular ________ produces lush, green irish fields

Back 7

rainfall

Front 8

_______________ emloys more peole today than ______

Back 8

manufacturing
farming

Front 9

The Irish trace their ancestory to the _______________

Back 9

Celts

Front 10

Ireland's greatest influance has been _________

Back 10

literature

Front 11

_________ is made up of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland

Back 11

Scandinavia

Front 12

Speacial feature incude ____ in iceland and ________ in Norway

Back 12

geysers
fjords

Front 13

Economies are a mix of agriculture, manufacturing, and __________ industries

Back 13

service

Front 14

Most of these countries are less ______ settled than other European countries

Back 14

densely

Front 15

The countries of Scandinavia provide health care, child care, elder care, and retirement benifits to all, but at a high cost of ____________

Back 15

taxes

Front 16

Much of Spain is covered by the __________, a dry platue surrounded by mountains

Back 16

Mest

Front 17

It's leading agriculture products are ________, __________, and ___________

Back 17

citrus fruits
olives
grapes

Front 18

Spain's official language is __________

Back 18

Castilian Spanish

Front 19

Spain became a _________ in the late 1970's.

Back 19

democracy

Front 20

The people of __________ want independence from Spain

Back 20

Basque

Front 21

Portugal's chief crops are ________ and _______

Back 21

grapes
cork oak trees

Front 22

Most people in Portugal live on the _________ and many earn a living by __________

Back 22

coast
fishing

Front 23

The ___________ form a backbone of the Italian Peninsula

Back 23

Apenpine mountains

Front 24

Italy is richer and more industrialized in the ________

Back 24

north

Front 25

The fertile ______________ in Italy is a rich farming region

Back 25

Po River Valley

Front 26

The capital of Italy, ________, was once the center of the ____________.

Back 26

Rome
Roman Empire

Front 27

The religion of most Italians is ____________

Back 27

Roman Catholic

Front 28

Greece includes a mainland and about _______________

Back 28

2,000 islands

Front 29

The major Greek business is ________. Another key business is _______

Back 29

shiping
tourism

Front 30

Nearly 1/3 of the Greek people live in or around ________

Back 30

urban areas

Front 31

Most Greeks belong to the __________ church

Back 31

Greek orthodox christian

Front 32

Benelux= _________, ________, ________

Back 32

Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Front 33

dry farming

Back 33

a mode of farming used in regions of slight rainfall that relies on methods making the soil more moist

Front 34

autominy

Back 34

independence or freedom because of what people do

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subsidy

Back 35

speacial payments a goverment makes to support a special group or industry

Front 36

command economy

Back 36

when the goverment decides what, how, and for who goods will be produced

Front 37

market economy

Back 37

when individuals and businesses make th decisions about how they will use resources and what goods and services to make

Front 38

potash

Back 38

a light soft metalic compound often used in agriculture

Front 39

ethnic cleansing

Back 39

removing or killing of an entire common culture

Front 40

multinational compony

Back 40

a large corperation with operations in several countries

Front 41

plate tectonics

Back 41

a theory of tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which is independent

Front 42

The Dutch have built ____ and drained land that once was covered by sea, turning into richfarmland called ________

Back 42

dikes
polders

Front 43

The Alpine countries are _____ and all covered by the Alps

Back 43

Switzerland, Austria, Liechenstein

Front 44

Germany produces _______, ________, _________, and ________.

Back 44

steel
chemicals
cars
electrical equipment

Front 45

Switzerland speaks: _______ _________ __________ _________

Back 45

German
French
Italian
Romansch

Front 46

All 5 Scandinavian countries provide _________, ________, _________, _________ to all but has ______________

Back 46

health care
child care
elder care
retirement benifits
the highest taxes in the world

Front 47

The Baltic repubic is _________, __________, _________

Back 47

Lithuania
latvia
estonia