Key Terms
A mass of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
What is a peninsula?
Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
What are the Low Countries?
the air circulation that causes relatively warm air to pass over Europe
What is the Westerlies?
Separates Europe from Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
Major sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Narrow, water filled valleys
What is fjords?
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland
What are the Nordic Countries?
bring warm waters to western Europe
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
Norway and Sweden
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
A channel of water that separates Europe and Africa
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece
What is Southern Europe?
The midnight sun that marks the beginning of this season
What is summer?
stretching from France to Bosnia and Herzegovina, longest mountain chain in Europe
What is the Alps?
The body of water that provides warm water to Europe via the current
What is the Caribbean Sea?
The act of a mass of ice carving into the earth to make mountains and valleys
What is glaciation?
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova
What is Eastern Europe?
The inevitable result of being at or below sea level
What is flooding?
What is Eurasia?
the body of water that the Netherlands reclaimed 2x their land from using polders
What is the North Sea?
decomposed plant and animal materials that make the soils rich and fertile
What is humus?
Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia
What are the Balkans?
the region with mild winters, humid summers, and abundant rainfall
What is western Europe climate?
Stretch from southeastern England to Poland
What is the North European Plains?
Most important river in western Europe, flowing from the Swiss Alps, through Germany, to the Netherlands
What is the Rhine River?