Physical Geography
They serve as a clear divider between European Russia and Asian Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The most commonly practiced religion in Europe.
What is Christianity?
Transboundary pollution.
What is pollution that starts in one country and crosses borders into another, carried by wind or water?
It means emperor or ruler; they controlled the Russian Empire until the Communist Revolution.
What is a "czar"?
This refers to a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
What is the European Union?
It is the huge landmass occupied by Europe and Russia/Asia.
What is Eurasia?
Most Europeans live in this kind of setting. (Provide the Geoterm and definition.)
What is "urban"? (A very settled city-like area.)
It's the Latin prefix that describes how the E.U. government works "above" its member countries.
What is "supra"?
Russia and 14 other republics were absorbed into this communist state from 1922 to 1991.
What was the Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R.?
At 109 acres, it is the smallest country in the world.
What is the Vatican City?
Italy is a famous example of this landform. (provide the word and definition)
What is a peninsula, a stretch of land surrounded by water on three sides?
Its legacy gave us Latin words and the basis for many of our laws and government.
What was Ancient Rome?
Like the U.S. Congress, it's the legislature, or lawmaking group, of the E.U. and the U.K.
What is "parliament"?
It's the economic system in which the means of production (goods and services) are privately owned.
What is capitalism?
Three ways in which Europeans use their many rivers.
What are as water highways, for drinking and farming, and for hydroelectric power?
The size of the Northern European Plain and the reason why it's so important.
What is almost 2,500 miles long and grows much of the food that feeds much of Europe's population?
It's when and where the Renaissance began.
What happened in the 1300s, in the Italian city-states?
They're called tariffs.
What are taxes on goods that cross country borders called?
The economic system in which the means of production (goods and services) are owned and operated by the government (state).
What is communism?
It's the birthplace of democracy.
What is Ancient Greece (or Ancient Athens)?
It's name for the warm winds and ocean currents that keep coastal Europe's temperatures roughly the same, year-round.
What is a marine climate?
It's how the Industrial Revolution affected people and countries in 1700s Europe.
What is it moved production of goods out of the home and into factories, resulting in Europe having the world's first developed countries?
It's the term meaning a group of countries that act as a single economic zone, without trade barriers between members.
What is a "common market"?
The form of government that makes ownership of goods and services public, but allows for elected leadership.
What is democratic socialism?
These 3 areas in Europe saw a nuclear explosion, acid rain from the burning of coal, and a cyanide spill.
What are Chernobyl, the Black Triangle, and the Tisza-Danube river system?