European Geography
The highest mountains in Europe
What are the Alps?
Early Scandinavian warriors who attacked ports around Europe
Who are the Vikings?
The number of time zones found in Russia
What is 11?
Russia's capital and largest city
What is Moscow?
The current leader of Ukraine who is defending his country from Russia
The mountain range that separates Spain and France
What are the Pyrenees?
The art and literature movement that began in Northern Italy around 1500 A.D.
The deepest lake in the world, it contains about 20 percent of all the freshwater on earth
What is Lake Baikal?
The title of the Russian emperors
What is czar?
The Austrian composer who starting writing symphonies at age 5
Who is Mozart?
The warm water current which flows across the Atlantic and warms northern Europe
What is the Gulf Stream (or North Atlantic Drift)?
The term for the murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II
What is the Holocaust?
The mountains which separate European Russian from Asian Russia
What are the Urals?
The Russian Revolution of 1917 led to what type of government
What is Communism?
Notre Dame cathedral and the Eiffel Tower are found in this city
What is Paris?
The sea between the U.K. and Scandinavia which contains a lot of oil and natural gas
What is the North Sea?
The large mutual defense organization that most European countries and the United States belong to
What is NATO?
The northern part of Russia which is extremely cold and contains many trees and frozen tundra
What is Siberia?
The period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which lasted from 1945-1990
What is the Cold War?
The longest single rail line in the world
What the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
The area in northern Europe which is mostly flat farmland where many large cities are located
What is the Northern European Plain?
The economic alliance formed by most European countries
What is the European Union (or EU)?
The large forest that covers much of the northern part of Russia
What is the taiga?
The current leader of Russia responsible for the invasion of Ukraine
Who is Vladimir Putin?
The spiritual head of the Roman Catholic church
Who is the Pope?