Physical features of Europe
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Geography
Geography
100
A body of land nearly surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
100
Most productive crops and largest citie in Europe
What is the North European Plain?
100
A forest in Russia that covers 4 million sq mile... the largest forest in the world.
What is the Taiga?
100
In what European country might you find fjords?
What is Norway?
100
Danube, Riviera, Rhine
What is the three major rivers in Europe?
200
A largest in let sea, located between Europe, Asia and Africa
What is the Mediterranean Sea
200
This system is the mountainous region to the south of Europe and contains the Alps.
What is the Alpine Mountain System?
200
The Russian Grasslands
What is Steppes?
200
Scandinavian, Iberian, Balkan
What is 3 peninsulas in Europe?
200
Ural, Pyrenees, Alps
What is the three major mountains systems in Europe?
300
The average number of people living per sq mile or km.
What is population destination?
300
Grasslands
What is the prairie?
300
Water generated power
What is Hydroelectric power?
300
France, Italy, Switzerland
What is 3 countries that are home to the Alps?
300
Fish, Swim, Vacation, sail, sun bathe
What is things people do in the Riviera?
400
An area on the sheltered side of a mountain that receives little rain fall.
What is Rain shadow?
400
A treeless plain where only grasses and mosses grow (found in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and Iceland
What is the Tundra?
400
Fuel from fossils of plant and animals that lived millions of years ago (Ex. coal, oil, natural gas) - nonrenewable natural resources
What is fossil fuel?
400
The Steppes would located in this country?
What is Russia?
400
ski, vacation
What is things people do in the Alps?
500
Rich dust like soil found in the European plain.
What is Loess?
500
Permanently frozen soil (found in the tundra)
What is Permafrost?
500
The available supply of a fossil fuel
What is reserves?
500
These mountains are in Western Russia
What is the Ural Mountains?
500
this tiny peninsula off the south end of the Iberian Peninsula governs itself...
What is Gibraltar?
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