Physical Geography
The British Isles
Scandinavia
Vocabulary, Terms, & Places
Potluck
100

A group of islands located across the English Channel from the rest of Europe.

What is the British Isles?

100

Two countries that make up the British Isles.

What are the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom?

100

Scandinavian warriors who raided Europe and the Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages.

Who were Vikings?

100

Meaning main or most important.

What is primary?

100

A country Northern Europe that is uninhabitable.

What is Greenland?
200

Northeast of the British Isles, a region of islands and peninsulas in far northern Europe including Iceland to the west.

What is Scandinavia?

200

A type of democracy in which a king or queen serves as head of state but a legislature makes the laws.

What is a constitutional monarchy?

200

The largest and most populous country in Scandinavia.

What is Sweden?

200

A decision reached by two or more people or groups.

What is an agreement?

200

Two cities that are central to the economy of the British Isles.

What is London and Dublin?

300

A narrow inlet of the sea between high rocky cliffs.

What is a fjord?

300

A document, or great charter that limits the powers of kings/queens.

What is the Magna Carta?

300

Country that is geographically part of North America and is a territory of Denmark.

What is Greenland?

300

Springs that shoot hot water and steam into the air.

What are geysers?

300

Country in the British Isles that is closest to mainland Europe.

What is England?

400

Steam from hot springs that produces energy from the heat of the Earth's interior.

What is geothermal energy?

400

The central issue of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

What is Catholics feel they haven't been treated fairly by the Protestant majority?

400

Scandinavia's easternmost country whose capital is Helsinki.

What is Finland?

400
Means choosing not to take sides in conflict.

What is neutral?

400

At it's height, it was the largest empire in history.

What is the Brittish Empire?

500

An ocean current that brings warm, moist air across the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the North Atlantic Drift?

500

The man who led Britain through the dark days of World War II and was appointed Prime Minister shortly after.

Who is Winston Churchill?

500

Not able to support human settlement.

What is uninhabitable?

500

Norway's capital.

What is Oslo?

500

One of the toughest problems facing the British Isles today.

What is the conflict in Northern Ireland?

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