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Location
Western Europe
The EU or the USSR?
Eastern Europe
The Map
100
This is the type of location that tells you where something is based on it's relationship to something else.
What is relative location?
100
This is the number of countries in Western Europe.
What is 19?
100
True or False: The EU is one country in Europe.
False
100
These men and women were the leaders of Russia before the Russian Revolution.
Who were the czars?
100
These are the four regions of Europe.
What is Western, Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe?
200
This is the type of location that uses latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
200
This is a special way of pronouncing words and phrases that is unique to a region or a group of people.
What is an accent?
200
What is the EU?
The EU is a group of countries that agreed to work together, share one type of money (currency) and allow people to move between countries without borders.
200
This czar (or czarina) tried to make Russia more European.
Who was Peter the Great or Catherine the Great?
200
This country is farthest to the East in Europe.
What is Russia?
300
These are the four sections of the earth that create North or South latitude and East or West longitude.
What are hemispheres?
300
This is one of the largest cities in Europe and is the capital of Britain. (Hint: Samuel Johnson, in the 1700s, said "When a man is tired of [this city], he is tired of life; for there is in [this city] all that life can afford".)
What is London?
300
This is the group of Eastern European countries that were taken over and turned into one communist country by Russia.
What is the Soviet Union?
300
There are this many countries in Eastern Europe AND this is many people.
What is 10 countries, with 263 million people.
300
This country is in between Norway and Finland, in Northern Europe.
What is Sweden?
400
These are the two lines (one latitude, one longitude) that divide the Earth.
What are the equator and the prime meridian?
400
This is one of the mirco-countries (tiny countries) in Europe. It is between Germany, Belgium and France.
What is Luxembourg?
400
This is a type of economic and government system where the government owns most businesses and farms and sets prices and wages. It was used in the Soviet Union.
What is communism?
400
This is the type of economic and government system that ruled Eastern European countries between 1917-1991.
What is communism?
400
This is the smallest country in Europe. (Hint: It's in Southern Europe).
What is the Holy See (or Vatican City)?
500
This is the 180 degree longitude line that connects to the prime meridian on the other side of the globe.
What is the International Dateline?
500
These are the two main language groups in Belgium; in the 1830s, both groups had to work together to defeat the Netherlands and form the country of Belgium.
Who are the Flemings and the Walloons?
500
This is the barrier between Western Europe and Eastern Europe that existed during the Soviet Union - people were prevented from moving freely between East and West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
This country no longer exists. It was split into two countries after the fall of communism (the early 1990s).
What is Czechoslovakia?
500
These are the three islands in the Atlantic in Northern Europe. (Hint: They are to the west of the rest of Europe).
What is the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland.