Package Title: Testbank Course Title: de Blij, Regions 16e ...testbankcart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ch0126.pdf · Package Title: Testbank Course Title: de Blij, Regions 16e

Package Title: Testbank

Course Title: de Blij, Regions 16e

Chapter Number: 01

Question Type: Multiple Choice

01) What is true about the geography of the North European Lowland?

a) It contains the mountain ranges of the Alps.

b) It is the most densely populated of Europe's landscape regions.

c) It does not include southeastern England.

d) It has historically functioned as a barrier to contact and communication due to its marshy

conditions.

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 1: 1A.1 Describe Europe’s geographic limits, environmental foundations,

resource opportunities, and locational advantages.

Section Reference 1: Geographical Features

Bloomcode: Comprehension

02) What term represents the geographic principle under which particular peoples and particular

places concentrate on the production of particular goods?

a) complementarity

b) Balkanization

c) supranationalism

d) local functional specialization

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 4: 1A.4 Discuss the evolution of modern Europe in spatial context and its

impact on the world.

Section Reference 4: Modern Historical Geography

Bloomcode: Knowledge

03) Which of the following is true of the Industrial Revolution in Europe?

a) It produced the first specialized industries anywhere in the realm.

b) It triggered a large immigration of workers from other parts of the world to fill the available

jobs in the factories.

c) It was initially focused in England, where machinery was invented and the use of steam to

power engines emerged.

d) It gave enormous situational advantage to large cities such as London and Paris, both

positioned on coalfields and near iron ores.

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy





04) Which of the following is true of Europe's political revolution?

a) It began in 1789 with the French Revolution.

b) It ended with the division of the German state in 1945.

c) It was stimulated by the new weaponry produced by the Industrial Revolution.

d) It originated as a reaction to the oppression of the Roman Empire.

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





05) What forces are divisive to a nation?

a) situational

b) centripetal

c) centrifugal

d) charismatic

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 7: 1A.7 Demonstrate the rise of European unification in terms of the

economic, political, and cultural issues that drive this process.

Section Reference 7: European Unification


06) What term represents a country's leading urban center that is disproportionately large and

exceptionally expressive of national feelings?

a) core city

b) primate city

c) entrepôt

d) functional region

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 5: 1A.5 Describe the forces that are shaping 21st century Europe and its

changing population.

Section Reference 5: Contemporary Europe: A Dynamic Realm


07) Which of the following is not an example of European supranationalism?

a) Benelux

b) the Euro currency

c) the European Union

d) Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Answer: d

Difficulty: Medium




Bloomcode: Application

08) Only the southern portion of what island was recently granted admission to the EU?

a) Ireland

b) Malta

c) Turkey

d) Cyprus

Answer: d

Difficulty: Medium





09) Which of the following is the process whereby regions within a state demand political

strength and autonomy?

a) devolution

b) irredentism

c) complementarity

d) supranationalism

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 8: 1A.8 Analyze the impact of the EU on its member nations in terms of

economics, politics and the citizens of those member nations.

Section Reference 8: Consequences of Unification


10) Which of the following cities is not part of one of the Four Motors of Europe?

a) Brussels

b) Milan

c) Stuttgart

d) Barcelona

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





11) Which of the following religions has gradually lost adherents since secularization gathered

momentum in the late 1960s, especially in western Europe?

a) Islam

b) Hinduism

c) Judaism

d) Christianity

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





12) Which of the following countries has been pulling through the global recession better than

any other country in the European realm?

a) France

b) Italy

c) the United Kingdom

d) Germany

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 2: 1B.2 Discuss the concept of the “European core” in western Europe and

analyze the present and future role of the core countries in the unification of Europe.

Section Reference 2: The Mainland Core


13) What is the name of the major river in western Germany that enters the North Sea through

the Netherlands and passes through the Ruhr?

a) Rhône

b) Danube

c) Elbe

d) Rhine

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





14) Which of the following statements is correct about German reunification?

a) It occurred in 1990.

b) It has resulted in economic equalization between former East and West Germany.

c) It has led to a country with eight Autonomous Communities.

d) It took place immediately after the end of World War II.

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





15) What is the only European country that has a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean

Sea, and the North Sea?

a) Portugal

b) Germany

c) Spain

d) France

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





16) Which of the following statements comparing Germany and France is false?

a) Germany is larger territorially than France.

b) Germany has a better river system than France.

c) Germany is more industrialized than France

d) Germany has better harbors than France.

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





17) Which of the following statements regarding the site and situation of Paris is true?

a) Paris initially benefited from an excellent site.

b) Paris initially benefited from an excellent situation.

c) The site of Paris is far inferior to that of any other French city.

d) Paris initially benefitted from both excellent site and situation.

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





18) Where are the administrative headquarters of the European Union located?

a) Geneva

b) Paris

c) Brussels

d) Strasbourg

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy





19) Which of the following cities is located in the Randstad conurbation?

a) Berlin

b) Amsterdam

c) Copenhagen

d) Vienna

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





20) Which of the following western European states is not a member of the European Union?

a) Austria

b) Luxembourg

c) the Netherlands

d) Switzerland

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





21) Where have significant oil and natural gas supplies been found in the European realm?

a) Baltic Sea

b) Gulf of Finland

c) North Sea

d) Adriatic Sea

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 3: 1B.3 Compare the differences between the regional components of the

British Isles and the reasons behind them.

Section Reference 3: The Core Offshore: The British Isles


22) The conurbation centered by London lies within which of the following regions?

a) southern England

b) northern England

c) Scotland

d) Wales

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





23) The population of Northern Ireland is:

a) not part of the European Union.

b) made up of refugees from Wales.

c) politically dominated by Protestants.

d) not part of the United Kingdom.

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy





24) Which of the following is the Discontinuous North’s largest country in terms of both

population and territory?

a) Denmark

b) Sweden

c) Norway

d) Finland

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 5: 1B.5 Describe how core-periphery contrasts shape the geography of

Europe’s Northern domain.

Section Reference 5: The Discontinuous North


25) What Northern European country has benefited the most from North Sea oil?

a) Denmark

b) Norway

c) Iceland

d) Finland

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





26) What country is located on the Jutland Peninsula and is the smallest-sized state in Northern

Europe?

a) Sweden

b) Norway

c) Estonia

d) Denmark

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





27) Which Nordic European city serves as a break of bulk, or entrepôt, city?

a) Stockholm

b) Copenhagen

c) Oslo

d) Reykjavik

Answer: b

Difficulty: Medium





28) What country has more in common with Finland than its other neighboring states, and is

therefore included as part of Northern Europe?

a) Estonia

b) Latvia

c) Lithuania

d) Kaliningrad

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





29) The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by what mountain range?

a) Appennines

b) Alps

c) Pyrenees

d) Pennines

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 4: 1B.4 Describe how core-periphery contrasts shape the geography of the

Mediterranean Basin and the Western Balkan Peninsula.

Section Reference 4: The Discontinuous South


30) What is the Mediterranean European country with the lowest percentage of urban residents?

a) Spain

b) Portugal

c) France

d) Italy

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





31) Where is Italy's economic core located today?

a) Sicily

b) the Po River Valley

c) the Naples-Venice conurbation

d) Catalonia

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





32) Which of the following cities is located in Italy's and Europe's core area?

a) Milan

b) Rome

c) Barcelona

d) Naples

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





33) What economically divides Northern and Southern Italy?

a) Alps

b) Appennines

c) Po River

d) Ancona Line

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





34) What country is located directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from southernmost Spain?

a) Portugal

b) Morocco

c) Italy

d) Gibraltar

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





35) Which of the following is the Autonomous Community located in northeastern Spain just

south of the Pyrenees Mountains and is centered on industrialized Barcelona?

a) Portugal

b) Andalusia

c) Catalonia

d) Gibraltar

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy





36) What territory is Spain and the United Kingdom in a dispute over?

a) Cyprus

b) Kosovo

c) Ceuta

d) Gibraltar

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





37) What is the capital and primate city of Greece?

a) Sparta

b) Malta

c) Athens

d) Cyprus

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy





38) What is the Mediterranean island contested by both Greece and Turkey?

a) Cyprus

b) Crete

c) Malta

d) Sicily

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





39) The international community recognizes which government on Cyprus?

a) Greek Cypriot

b) Turkish Cypriot

c) Islamic

d) Maltese

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: Describe how core-periphery contrasts shape the geography of the


Section Reference: The Discontinuous South


40) What term is used to describe eastern Europe as a zone of politico-geographical splintering

and fracturing?

a) irredentist region

b) periphery

c) shatter belt

d) Balkan conurbation

Answer: c

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 6: 1B.6 Analyze the post-Soviet evolution of states formerly behind the iron

curtain and their responses to the challenge of peripheral location.

Section Reference 6: The Eastern Periphery


41) Which of the following describes the term Balkanization?

a) a peculiar language that is spoken in Bulgaria

b) the landmass located west of the Adriatic Sea

c) the phenomenon of Serbian supranationalism

d) the division and fragmentation of the southern portion of eastern Europe

Answer: d

Difficulty: Medium





42) The Danube River empties into what sea?

a) Adriatic

b) Mediterranean

c) Aegean

d) Black

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





43) From the end of World War II until 1990, what dominated politics in eastern Europe?

a) Ottoman Turks

b) Hapsburg Empire

c) European Community

d) Soviet Union

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





44) Where is the leading manufacturing/industrial complex in Poland located?

a) the Bohemian Basin

b) the Warsaw area

c) the Vistula Valley

d) Silesia

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





45) Which of the following is the Russian exclave located between Lithuania and Poland?

a) Kaliningrad

b) Leningrad

c) Latvia

d) Estonia

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





46) Which former Soviet Socialist Republic is also called White Russia and is still strongly

linked to Moscow?

a) Belarus

b) Lithuania

c) Moldova

d) Estonia

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





47) Which of the following is a significant minority found in Slovakia?

a) Czech

b) Hungarian

c) Serbian

d) Slovenian

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy





48) What term represents when a state seeks to acquire the neighboring territory of another

country that is home to ethnically similar people?

a) colonization

b) devolution

c) interference

d) irredentism

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





49) What is the largest ethnic minority in Ukraine?

a) Bulgarians

b) Moldovans

c) Crimeans

d) Russians

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





50) Which of the following is not a state created by the breakup of former Yugoslavia?

a) Bosnia

b) Macedonia

c) Croatia

d) Slovakia

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





51) Which state contains Serb, Croat, and Muslim populations that were finally brought together

in 1995 at a U.S.-run peace conference?

a) Bosnia

b) Serbia

c) Croatia

d) Montenegro

Answer: a

Difficulty: Easy





52) When considering its neighbors, what is an unusual aspect of Albania?

a) its location on both the Black and Adriatic seas

b) its large Eastern Orthodox population

c) its former control by the Ottoman Empire

d) its large Muslim population

Answer: d

Difficulty: Easy





Question Type: True/False

53) The Central Uplands is a region of hills and low plateaus loaded with raw materials.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





54) The Greek Empire was the first truly interregional, unified political unit in Europe.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 2: 1A.2 Discuss the development of the first civilizations of ancient Greece

and Rome.

Section Reference 2: Ancient Europe


55) The Romans extended their Empire as far west as Britain, whereas the Greeks before them

did not.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 2: 1A.2 Discuss the development of the first civilizations of ancient Greece

and Rome.

Section Reference 2: Ancient Europe


56) Britain's Midlands, Germany's Ruhr, and Poland's Silesia all possessed major coal deposits

that helped launch Industrial Revolutions.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 4 : 1A.4 Discuss the evolution of modern Europe in spatial context and its




57) Transferability is a spatial interaction concept related to the costs of overcoming the distance

between two places.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





58) A primate city is disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national culture.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





59) Modern supranationalism in Europe began with the creation of Benelux in 1944.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





60) The Council of Europe meets in Strasbourg, France.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





61) Because of internal bickering, the European Union in 2008 contained fewer member-states

than it did when it was founded in 1957.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





62) Each of the three Benelux countries is a member of the European Union.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





63) The United Kingdom, a charter member of the European Common Market, withdrew

because of a disagreement in 1973.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





64) The leading states of the Mainland Core or western European region are France and

Germany.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective 2: LO 1B.2 Discuss the concept of the “European core” in western Europe

and analyze the present and future role of the core countries in the unification of Europe.



65) The Ruhr is located in the Paris Basin.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





66) The city of Paris has great advantages of site but major disadvantages in its situation.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





67) The Île de la Cité possesses a favorable situation with respect to the rest of the Paris Basin.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





68) Belgium and the Netherlands possess economies that contain similar proportions of

agricultural and manufacturing activity.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





69) The United Kingdom consists of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





70) Even though British dominance over most of Ireland ended in 1921, they are still called the

British Isles.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





71) The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is situated in the northern portion of that island and is today

ruled by the British government.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





72) In terms of income per capita, Norway is one of the richest countries in the world.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy


Europe’s Northern domain



73) Due largely to its peripheral location, Nordic Europe remains economically underdeveloped.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





74) The three largest Nordic countries all have their major concentrations of population in the

southern part of their national territory.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





75) Stockholm is not only Norway's capital, but Northern Europe's largest city as well.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





76) An entrepôt, such as Copenhagen, is a place where goods are collected, stored, and

transshipped.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





77) After its medieval period of prominence, Italy's Po River Basin has lost nearly all of its

importance.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





78) Although the Po River Basin has great agricultural advantages, what characterizes this

lowland today is Mediterranean Europe’s greatest manufacturing development.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





79) The balkanization of a region implies its political unification.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





80) Prague is the Czech Republic's primate city.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





81) Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





82) Albania is the most prosperous eastern European country.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy





83) Bulgarians are emigrating in substantial numbers.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy





Question Type: Fill-in-the-Blank

84) The northernmost territorial component of the United Kingdom, which is today prone to

devolution, is __________.

Answer: Scotland

Difficulty: Easy





85) An international cooperative venture involving the voluntary participation of three or more

countries in an economic or political association is known as __________.

Answer: supranationalism

Difficulty: Easy





86) _______ is the general term for a large, megalopolis-like urban complex that is formed by

the coalescence of two or more metropolitan areas.

Answer: Conurbation

Difficulty: Easy





87) The one Nordic country that is not located on the European mainland is _________.

Answer: Iceland

Difficulty: Easy





88) Besides the United Kingdom, the European country that has benefited most from the North

Sea oil boom is __________.

Answer: Norway

Difficulty: Easy





89) The Iberian Peninsula is isolated from the rest of Europe by a high range called the

__________ Mountains.

Answer: Pyrenees

Difficulty: Easy





90) Italy's economic core area, no longer focused on Rome, is now centered on the city of

__________.

Answer: Milan

Difficulty: Easy





91) The term ________ refers to the total physical environment of a particular place, including

climate, water, soils, vegetation, and landforms.

Answer: physiography

Difficulty: Easy






92) According to Figure 1A-2, the Mediterranean climate belongs to which major climate type?

a) Dry

b) Humid Temperate

c) Humid Cold

d) Cold Polar

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy




93) Figure 1A-3 shows which two physical landscapes on the Iberian Peninsula?

a) Western Uplands and North European Lowland

b) Western Uplands and Central Uplands

c) Central Uplands and Alpine System

d) Western Uplands and Alpine System

Answer: d

Difficulty: Medium




94) Based on Figure 1A-9, which part of Europe is the poorest?

a) Northern Europe

b) Central Europe

c) western Europe

d) eastern Europe

Answer: d

Difficulty: Medium




95) Based on Figure 1A-10, which country is not currently affected by forces of devolution?

a) United Kingdom

b) Germany

c) Spain

d) Italy

Answer: b

Difficulty: Medium




96) According to Figure 1A-11, which country was not a founding member of NATO?

a) United Kingdom

b) France

c) Spain

d) Italy

Answer: c

Difficulty: Medium




97) Figure 1A-7 shows that the Polish language belongs to what language group?

a) Germanic Group

b) Slavic Group

c) Celtic Group

d) Romance Group

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy




Question Type: True-False

98) According to Figure 1B-9, the Basque region of Spain is one of the poorest in the country.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Medium





99) According to Figure 1B-5, what city is the wealthiest in France?

a) Lyon

b) Paris

c) Bordeaux

d) Strasbourg

Answer: b

Difficulty: Easy




Question Type: Fill-in-the-Blank

100) According to Figure 1B-10, after the breakup of Yugoslavia _____ ended up with the

longest coastline on the Adriatic Sea.

Answer: Croatia

Difficulty: Easy




Documents

Package Title: Testbank Course Title: de Blij, Regions 16e ...testbankcart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ch0126.pdf · Package Title: Testbank Course Title: de Blij, Regions 16e