Overview of Continent
Geography
Italy
Unit Vocabulary
100

There are how many countries in Europe

What is 47 separate countries?

100

The mountains that separate Europe from the continent of Asia.

What are the Ural Mountains?

100

This busy, modern city is the capital of Italy.

What is Rome?

100

Design of buildings and other structures.

What is architecture? 

200

Europe is the _________ smallest continent

What is the second smallest continent?

200

The nations of Norway and Sweden form this geographic landform.

What is a peninsula? 

200

Rome had a government in which people vote for leaders to represent them in government.

What is a republic?

200

A _____________ economy is when individuals, not the government decides what jobs they will have.

What is a market economy?

300

A group of leaders of countries who team up to make decisions about laws, the economy and to promote peace.

What is the European Union?

300

A long, deep, narrow part of the sea that cuts into the land and runs between cliffs.

What is a fjord? 

300

Rome’s republic later became one model for the government of the __________________.

What is the United States? 

300

Italians celebrate different parts of their history and culture through these events each year like Carnival. 

What is festivals?

400

Winds, water, and mountains affect what in Europe. 

What affects climate in Europe?

400

Shape or outline of land where it meets the ocean.

What is a coastline?

400

Roman soldiers conquered nearby and distant lands. conquered so many other lands that Rome became a group of nations ruled by one government.

What is an empire? 

400

Traveling for fun. 

What is tourism?

500

Europe is located above which continent 

What is Africa?

500

This river runs through many towns in France.

What is the Seine River? 

500

The Roman Empire lasted about __________ years.

What is 500 years?

500

History, ideas, and beliefs that people receive from the past.

What is heritage? 

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