Chapter 12/13 Test: World Geography: South and Eastern Europe

The languages of Italy, Spain, and Portugal are categorized as Romance languages, which are based on

• Greek

• Roman

• Latin

• Vatican

Which statement summarizes trends in the population patterns of Southern Europe today?

• Births are occurring at a faster rate than deaths, resulting in a growing, younger population.

• Births are occurring at a slower rate than deaths, resulting in a shrinking, aging population.

• Births and deaths are occurring at about the same rate, resulting in an unchanging population rate.

• Births are occurring at a faster rate than deaths, resulting in larger families but an unchanging population rate.

As manufacturing activity declined across Southern Europe over the past 30 years, the (a)   sector has increased steadily.

• Agricultural

• Industrial

• Financial

• Service

Which factors account for economic instability in the Southern European region in the 21st century?

• Energy scarcity, post-World War II reconstruction, EU membership

• Loss of manufacturing base, consumer overspending lack of health care, low literacy rates

• Government overspending, high unemployment, high national debt

• EU loans and subsidies, overreliance of tourism industry, global economic downturn

Which illustrates an example of how society in Southern Europe has been influenced by rich intellectual traditions established in the Greek and Roman Empires and embraced anew in the Renaissance?

• Higher education is increasingly common, and literacy rates are high.

• Healthcare is provided by the state, and quality of life has been rising steadily.

• Greeks and Italians share the same Romance language family.

• Italy and Greece excel at modern art, as exemplified by the works of Picasso, Gaudi, and Dali.

The conflict in the Balkan Peninsula that led to civil war in the 1990s was primarily between ______________ and ______________.

• Serbs and Croats

• Serbs and Albanians

• Serbs and Bosniaks

• Serbs and Macedonians

The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires ruled Eastern Europe until ______________.

• World War I

• World War II

• The Cold War

• The Renaissance

Eastern Europe has become successful at manufacturing automobiles and ______________.

• Electronics

• Furniture

• Textiles

• Footwear

A region where political alliances are constantly splintering and fracturing based on ethnicity is known as ______________.

• A. Shatter Belt

• B. Buffer Zone

• C. Hinterland

• D. Frontier

The division of a region into smaller hostile regions known as ______________.

• A. Fragmentation

• B. Segmentation

• C. Partitioning

• D. Balkanization