Europe Vocab Practice 1

a piece of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea or a river and protected by dikes, especially in the Netherlands.

• fjord
• polder
• globalization
• sovereignty

a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster:

• displaced person
• asylum seeker
• refugee
• immigrant

the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad

• immigration
• emigration
• asylum seeker
• refugee

a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another

• immigration
• emigration
• asylum seeker
• refugee

having power or influence that transcends national boundaries or governments.

• bilateral
• supranational
• European Union
• Soviet Union

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale

• globalization
• supranational
• bilateral
• treaty

an economic and political association of European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs.

• bilateral
• supranational
• European Union
• Soviet Union

The decrease in the number of people in a population

• demographics
• pronatalist policies
• economic indicators
• negative population growth

the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

• sovereignty
• suprnational
• globalization
• treaty

a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries

• sovereignty
• suprnational
• globalization
• treaty