Europe Physical
The Western Uplands of Europe is defined by _________________, which is the process of land being transformed by glaciers or ice sheets.
What is Glaciation?
This ancient civilization is known for having city-states that have their own form of government and society but share a common language and cultural identity
What is Ancient Greece
_______ is an example of ethnic cleansing; the expelling or genocide of an ethnic group.
What is the Holocaust
In Russia, women are having less children; because of equal rights, higher education, and job opportunities;
What is population declining
This physical region has many navigable rivers and a climate that supports agriculture
What is the North European Plains
_________________________ was a time of no great accomplishments while the _______________ was a time of major changes in the arts, politics, culture, and religion.
What is the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Eastern Europe is known as the _______________________ because they are constantly splintering and fracturing based on ethnicity.
What is the Shatter belt region
_____ percentage of Russia’s population live west of the Ural Mountains and for this reason
What is 80 percent a and mild climate
This Mountain range is located in the Alpine Mountains region
What is the Alps
The ______________ killed 20 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Bubonic Plague
This region has a lot of people living there, high literacy rates, gender equality, renaissance art, and a Mediterranean climate
What is Southern Europe
The transition of the economy in Russia has allowed for citizens to purchase shares in companies but it has also caused this __________________________.
What is Political Changes
Western France and Belgium, southern Germany, the Czech Republic, and parts of northern Switzerland and Austria are all parts of the ___________ region because of their lower altitude, less rugged than the Alpine region, and heavily wooded.
What is the Central Uplands
____________ was religious movement that decreased the influence of the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation
This region has the most people living there, they have low birthrates, Christianity is the primary religion, education and healthcare are paid by taxes, equality for women is important, they are the leading in agriculture because they land in this region is the most suitable, and this region has many large cities like London and Paris
What is Northwestern Europe
During the Soviet era, the government actively promoted this set of Beliefs
What is Atheism
Europe is considered a ________ of _______ because it is surrounded by bodies of water on 3 sides; examples would be the Italian, Iberian, Balkan, Jutland, and Scandinavian.
What is a Peninsula
____________ was the division of Europe between the communist world and the democratic world after World War 2.
What is the Cold War
The European Union is made up of 27 countries that want to seek _________________.
What is Economic Unity
This is how many different languages are spoken in Russia
Over 100, but 1 official language
The Ural Mountains mark the natural boundary between _______________.
Europe and Asia
What country was part of the Allies power during World War II.
What is Russia/Soviet Union
What region is shaped by the influence of migration and ethnic groups, values religious freedom (Finland is only country without a specific religion), high birth rates, opera is important, and most countries are small and depend on trade and oil?
What is Northern Europe
During the Soviet era, the Soviet Union operated as a _____________________ in which the government made key economic decision.
What is a command economy
This is the rich, black soil that supports agriculture in the southern part of the Northern European Plain
What is Chernozem
The Treaty of Versailles stated that Germany had to pay ___________________ for starting World War I; this was a leading cause of the depression in Germany and eventually lead to WWII.
What are Reparations
What region is mostly Slavic, defined by their language, were once part of the Soviet Bloc but recently became democratic, they have free education but it lacks funds, folk music and literature are important, suffered from the economic crisis but the EU helped the smaller countries?
What is Eastern Europe