Physical Geography
Capitals
Countries
Terms
100
This is the important river that flows from Germany through nine Eastern European countries.
What is the Danube River?
100
This is the capital of Poland.
What is Warsaw?
100
Other that Poland, this is one Eastern European country that borders the Baltic Sea.
What is Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia?
100
This is the term that means the removal of a certain group of people from a country.
What is ethnic cleansing?
200
This is the sea that borders Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania.
What is the Black Sea?
200
This is the capital of the Czech Republic.
What is Prague?
200
After the Cold War, this former country was broken up into smaller countries that included Serbia and Bosnia.
What is Yugoslavia?
200
This is the term that describes all the things that exist in a country that help make economic activity occur.
What is infrastructure?
300
This is the large peninsula that extends off southeast Europe and is home to numerous small countries such as Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
300
This is the capital of Romania.
What is Bucharest?
300
This is the largest of the Eastern European countries (in Chapter 15).
What is Ukraine?
300
This is the organization of countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.
What is the Commonwealth of Independent States?
400
These the mountains that are an extension of the Alps in southeast Europe.
What are the Carpathian Mountains?
400
This is the capital of Hungary.
What is Budapest?
400
After the Cold War, the former country of Czechoslovakia was divided in the Czech Republic and this country.
What is Slovakia?
400
He was the head of the Catholic Church in the 1980's who helped bring about the end of the Cold War.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
500
This was the place in Ukraine was the site of the terrible nuclear accident in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
500
This is the capital of Ukraine.
What is Kiev?
500
Minsk is the capital of this country.
What is Belarus?
500
These are the nomadic Eastern European people who are sometimes known as gypsies.
Who are the Roma?
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