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Europe Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |