Unit 8 Europe: vocab

Black earth that is a highly fertile soil in central Europe

• Laterite
• Chernozem
• Loam
• Podzol

This peninsula contains Sweden and Norway.

• Scandinavian Peninsula
• Arabian Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula
• Iberian Peninsula

Minority group found throughout Eastern Europe

• Roma people
• Baltic people
• Slavic people
• Slovak people

an economic system in which owners used profits to

expand their companies

• Socialism
• Communism
• Feudalism
• Industrial Capitalism

States with health care programs funded by the

government

• Welfare states

• Social Security
• medicaid

• Food Stamps

total number of people living in a country

• population

• population density

• GDP

• GDP per capita

a tunnel that runs underneath the English Channel and

connects Britain to France

• Chunnel

• Eurostar Tunnel
• Mediterranean Tunnel
• Atlantic Tunnel

Capital of France. Located on the Seine River

• Paris
• Berlin
• Madrid
• Rome

Capital of Ukraine. The city was almost completely ruined

during World War II but quickly recovered in the postwar

years, remaining the Soviet Union's third-largest city

• Moscow
• St. Petersburg
• Berlin
• Kiev

Capital of Austria. The second-largest German-speaking city

• Vienna
• Zurich
• Munich
• Berlin