Physical Geography
This mountain range divides Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This ancient civilization invented democracy.
What is Ancient Greece?
Russian emperors were called this.
What are Czars?
EU stands for this.
What is the European Union?
This is the world's largest country.
What is Russia?
This term means land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a Peninsula?
This is the longest river in Europe and an important transportation route.
What is the Danube River
This city was the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This group led the Russian Revolution in 1917.
What are the Bolsheviks?
This is the common currency used by many EU member countries.
What is the Euro?
This is the world's smallest country, located within Italy.
What is Vatican City?
Europe is called this because it has many peninsulas.
What is "Peninsula of peninsulas"
These are narrow inlets of sea between cliffs, found in Scandinavia.
What are Fjords
Ancient Rome built these structures for carrying water.
What are Aqueducts?
The Soviet Union collapsed in this year.
What is 1991?
This term describes Britain's exit from the European Union.
What is Brexit?
The Industrial Revolution began in this country in the 1700s-1800s.
What is Britain?
This climate zone is shared by Minnesota and parts of Russia.
What is Humid continental?
This is the world's deepest freshwater lake, located in Russia.
What is Lake Baikal?
This ancient civilization contributed law and engineering to Europe.
What is Ancient Rome?
Dictators ruled Russia/Soviet Union for this many years.
What is 74 years (1917-1991)?
This is the main goal of the European Union.
What is Economic cooperation and unity in diversity?
This country unified through the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.
What is Spain?
This was the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe during the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This fertile lowland area supports dense population and agriculture in Europe.
What is the Northern European Plain
Ancient Greece invented democracy, but Ancient Rome contributed these two things to European civilization.
What are Law and engineering? (also roads)
This was the period of tension between the USA and Soviet Union, with communist vs. democratic nations.
What was the Cold War?
This term describes nations working together beyond national boundaries, like the EU does.
What is Supranational cooperation?
This is an example of Balkanization, where a region broke apart into smaller nations.
What is Yugoslavia?
Europe faces this population challenge: more elderly people and fewer young workers.
What is Aging population (or declining birth rates)?