Exam 4: Europe

Seawater flows into the Mediterranean Sea through the:

The period of conflict and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union is known as the ____________________.

The European country on the vanguard of gender equality in society, government, and the workplace is:

Which of the following bodies of water contains substantial deposits of oil and gas?

The present-day site of the Ottoman Empire is _________________.

An important principle of the European Union states that citizens of member nations should remain in their own countries and resist migrating to other countries of the EU.

The economic system characterized by privately owned business firms seeking profits is ______________.

The use of nuclear power to generate electricity has been much less common in Europe than in the United States.

The food crops now popular in Europe came mostly from Central Asia and the Americas.

The dominant land cover throughout Europe, despite high population densities, is natural grasslands and taiga forests.

Facing the so-called double day, women in Europe often find jobs with all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

In medieval Europe, serfs were free to travel from community to community in search of more productive land and a better standard of living.

The ______________________________ is an EU program that places tariffs on imported agricultural goods and give subsidies to farmers.

Less than 50 percent of Europeans work in the service sector.

Describe at least three exceptions to democracy in Europe that persisted through the 1610s, 1620s, or 1630s.

Despite high gasoline prices, there has been a trend toward less energy-efficient but more flexible private motorized road transport in the EU.

The purpose of the EU is to lower barriers to trade and improve mobility of investment capital among member states.

What arguments do some Europeans make in favor of lowering taxes and diminishing the level of social protection provided to residents?

The laws determining how individuals own, buy, and sell land originated in ___________.

The democratic expansion created by the French Revolution eliminated elite-dominated government in France for the bulk of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.