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Europe Words
Question | Answer |
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Hot dry winds that blow across southern Europe from Africa | Sirocco |
Head of the Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
The joining of European Countries for economic development | European Union |
Government in which a king or queen is the official head of state but elected officials run the government | Constitutional Monarchy |
Common currency (money) adopted by countries in the EU | Euro |
steep sided valley cut into mountains by the action of glaciers | Fjord |
country that uses tax money to support people who are sick, needy, jobless, or retires | Welfare State |
Huge forests of evergreen trees that grow in subarctic regions | Taiga |
Government that has strong control over the economy and society as a whole | Communist State |
Government in which voters elect representatives to a law making body which chooses a prime minister to head government | Pariamentary Democracy |
Able to speak several languages | Multilingual |
Refusal to take sides in disagreements and wars between countries | Neutrality |
body of water wider than a strait between two pieces of land | Channel |
plants partly decayed in water that can be dried and used for fuel | Peat |
treeless, windy, highland area with damp ground | Moor |
to transfer ownershi of factories from the government to individual citizens | Privatize |
straong national government headed by elected leaders | Republic |
swampy lowlands | Bog |
to change an economy to rely more on manufacturing and less on farming | Industrialize |
forcing people from a different ethnic group to leave their homes or worse | Ethnic Cleansing |