Chapter 7 Vocabulary Review (Europe and Russia)

The ______, or frozen ground, prevents the growth of agriculture in northern Russia.

• steppes

• permafrost

• Ring of Fire

• coup

Most of the western part of Russia is ______, or dry, flat plains, covering a major portion of the remaining land.

• permafrost

• communism

• steppes

• Ring of Fire

Over 150 volcanoes hover over the Kamchatka Peninsula. Most are non-active, but the threat of dangerous eruptions looms. The chain of islands rests within the _______.

• Ring of Fire

• Permafrost

• Steppes

• Athens

The ________, an ancient fortress, rebuilt to retain

its ancient heritage is home to the Russian central

government.

• Sistine Chapel

• Pope

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Kremlin

The _______, or

leader of the Catholic

Church, resides in Vatican City.

• Kremlin

• Czar

• Pope

• Sistine Chapel

Vatican City is home to the famous ___________ ceiling painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s attracts many visitors.

• Sistine Chapel

• Pope

• Ring of Fire

• monarchy

_________ means “rule by the people.”

• communism

• democracy

• republic

• constitutional monarchy

_____ was the capital of the Greek city-state.

• Rome

• Vatican City

• Russia

• Athens

The USSR and Eastern European nations primarily followed ________.

• democracy

• communism

• monarchy

• constitutional monarchy

A government lead by a King or a Queen is known as a: ________

• democracy

• republic

• monarchy

• constitutional republic