Europe test

To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control.

privatization

I am a body of water north of the Mediterranean sea and east of Greece. What am i?

Aegean Sea

I am at high elavation, i am a physical barrier that divided Italy from the rest of europe. I am a mountian range. What am i?

Alps

What is the capital of Greece

Athens

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

Balkanization

What three countries lie between France and Germany

Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland

What is the capital of Germany

Berlin

I am a narrow strip of land surrounded by water on 3 sides. I am the peninsula where Greece is located. What am i?

Black Sea

What is the capital of Hungary

Budapest

I am over 900 miles. I extend through Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania. I am a mountain range. Which one am i?

Carpathian mountains

rich, black topsoil found in the Northern European Plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine

Chernozem

Process of rural reform undertaken by the communist leadership of both the USSR and China in which private property rights were abolished and peasants were forced into larger and more industrialized farms to work and share the proceeds as a community rather than as individuals

Collectivization

What is the capital of Denmark

Copenhagen

Emperor or king

Czar

What country is bordered on the north by Poland and Germany

Czechia

What is the capital of Ireland?

Dublin

What countries make up the UK?

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region

Ethnic cleansing

An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

European Union

What countries are bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

France, Spain

Energy from steam or hot water produced from hot or molten underground rocks.

Geothermal energy

a hot spring where water boils and shoots out of the ground is called

Geyser

a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.

Glacier

What country lies across the Aegean Sea, west of turkey

Greece

What is the capital of Finland

Helsinki

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

Holocaust

What country lies west of Romania and east of Austria?

Hungary

I am a Piece of land in Western Europe. I am almost touching Africa, divided only by the strait of Gibraltar. Spain and Portugal are both on me. What am i?

Iberian peninsula

What country in Europe is shaped like a boot and sticks out into the Mediterranean sea

Italy

What country is shaped like a boot

Italy

A type of landscape in rainy regions where there is limestone near the surface, characterized by caverns, sinkholes, and valleys

Karst topography

What is the capital of Ukraine

Kiev

What is the capital of Portugal?

Lisbon

What is the capital of Spain

Madrid

What is the capital of Belarus

Minsk

What is the capital of Russia

Moscow

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

NATO

Which countries are considered Scandinavian countries

Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Radioactive byproducts of the manufacture of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons

Nuclear waste

What is the capital of Norway

Oslo

Name three countries that order the Baltic Sea

Poland, Germany, Latvia

What country borders Spain?

Portugal and andorra

Im a tall strip of land and divide Spain from France, and i am a mountain range. What am i?

Pyrenees mountain

What is the capital of Iceland

Reykjavik

What is the capital of Italy

Rome

What is the largest country in Europe

Russia

What countries have land in both europe and Asia

Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, turkey, ciazectian

A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.

Secularism

A region that is under continual political pressure is fragmented by warning internal fractions and is heavily infringed by surrounding rivals

Shatter belt

The Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that installed Communist regimes after World War II and were dominated by the Soviet Union.

Soviet bloc

What countries border France

Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium

What countries make up the Iberian peninsula

Spain, Portugal, Andorra

What is the capital of Sweden

Stockholm

What is the capital of poland

Warsaw

an illegal, underground system for the exchange of goods, developed to avoid governmental regulations

black market

effect of extreme variation in temperature and very little precipitation within the interior portions of a landmass

continentality

electrical energy produced by the flow of water

hydroelectric energy