Chapter 13: Eastern Europe

The physical geography of Eastern Europe is mostly made up of __________________.

• plains

• mountains

• deserts

• glaciers

Which mountains form a boundary between Europe and Asia?

• Ural

• Carpathian

• Pyrenees

• Alps

Over 1/5 of the world's ______________________________ can be found in Russia.

• Deserts

• Volcanoes

• Forests

• all of the above

Which organization, created in 1949, is a group made up of the USA and its allies?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• EU

• Pan-Am Congress

Russian leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin brought which political and economic system to their country?

• Communism

• Democracy

• Feudalism

• Cubism

In which Eastern European country, are the majority of its citizens Muslim?

• Croatia

• Serbia

• Poland

• Albania

In the past century, why have many emigrants from Eastern Europe come to the United States?

• political freedom and economic security

• reunite with American friends and family

• better climate and agriculture

• spread European values in Americans

Russia is one of the world's leading suppliers of which commodity?

• Citrus fruit

• Peanut Oil

• Natural Gas

• Coffee

Ethnic tensions in the former Yugoslavia led to brand new countries being created on which European peninsula?

• Iberian

• Jutland

• Balkan

• Scandinavian

Which term can be described as a flat area that supports low growing plants like grasses?

• Brackish

• savanna

• steppe

• basin