Europe

NATO consists of ______ countries.

• 31

• 28

• 35

• 29

What organization was created in response to NATO?

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• European Union

• ASEAN

What was NATO's main purpose during the Cold War?

• To promote economic cooperation among member countries

• To provide a collective defense against the Soviet Union

• To establish a single European currency

• To regulate international trade

Which of the following is an accomplishment of NATO?

• Collective defense agreement

• Establishment of the United Nations

• Formation of the European Union

• Signing of the Kyoto Protocol

What is the beginning step or stage in the creation of a polder?

• selecting appropriately-sized timber

• draining the area of seawater

• a drop in the sea level that exposes more land

• movement of a glacier downstream

Where is the industrial region known as the Ruhr?

• northern Italy

• western England

• stretches across eastern Europe

• Western Germany

Fjords are formed by - 

• erosion because of heavy storms in the North Sea

• building a dam to create a freshwater lake

• glacial movement along a river valley

• heavy snowfall in the Alps

One of these statements is NOT true about the former Yugoslavia. Which is it?

• It contains the countries of Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia

• the disputes that split it have a Christian-versus-Muslim dimension

• it split along ethnic lines, with violent conflicts, in the 1990s

• the Serbian minority suffered attacks from other groups who wanted its land

The largest oil reserves in Europe are located -

• in the Mediterranean Sea just off the Greek coastline

• in the North Sea between Great Britain and Scandinavia

• in the Alps on the Switzerland/Austria border

• in eastern Europe, particularly countries that were part of the USSR

Differences between western and eastern Europe include all of the following EXCEPT - 

• eastern Europe's climates are slightly cooler on average

• western Europe is more industrialized

• eastern Europe has more land covered with mountains

• western Europe joined the European Union later