Europe
area of Europe
10 million square kilometers
10,000,000 km^2
These mountains form a natural border between France and Spain:
the Pyrenees
When water collects in a basin or depression, what is made?
a lake
What is a peninsula and which is the biggest in Europe?
What is an archipelago?
Peninsulas are land surrounded by water on all but one side. The Scandinavian Peninsula is the largest (Norway, Sweden, northern Finland)
Archipelago = a group or chain of small islands
The Meseta Central is what type of land form?
a plateau
What is the number of countries that share a currency & what is that currency called?
19 countries and the euro
This mountain range runs down the middle of the Italian Peninsula.
What is the Apennines?
What is the biggest lake in Europe? What country is it in?
Lake Ladoga, Russia
These islands in Europe are also considered countries (name 2).
What are Iceland, Ireland, Cypurs and Malta.
What are the two huge river basins in Spain
Depresión del Ebro, del Guadalquivir
What are the 4 main time zones in Europe?
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - UK
Central European Time (CET) - Spain
Eastern European Time (EET) - Ukraine
Moscow Standard Time (MST) - Turkey
Whats the highest mountain range in Europe? Whats the highest mountain? Is the highest mountain in the highest mountain range?
Alps, Mount Elbrus, no its in the Caucasus mountain range
Why do the rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean have higher volume?
due to rainfall
What are Europe's main SOUTHERN peninsulas?
the Iberian, Italian, Balkan, Peloponnesea and Crimean peninsulas
How many autonomous communities are in Spain (name 10)? How many cities (name)? How many provinces?
17: Andalusia, Valencia, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Galicia, Basque Country, Madrid City and Province, Asturias, Cantabria, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Aragon, Castile and Leon, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura
2 cities (Ceuta and Melilla), 50 provinces
What are the bodies of water Europe touches in the north, east, south, and west?
Arctic Sea (north), Caspian Sea (east), Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea (south), Atlantic Ocean (west)
This is the longest mountain range in Europe? Which mountain range separates Europe and Asia? What is the second longest mountain range?
the Urals, the Urals, The Carpathian Mountains
How are glaciers formed?
What do glaciers do when they move and melt?
Formed when snow accumulates and is compacted into solid ice.
They carve out the land, sometimes creating a lake.
What are inlets in the coast formed by glaciers?
Fjords
What is a Ria? How does it form?
submerged river valley
Forms when the sea rises and floods a river valley
TIME ZONE MATH: 100 EACH
10:00 Portugal = ? Lithuania
5:00 Tallinn = ? Oslo
1:00 Moscow = ? Dublin
21:00 Macedonia = ? Reykjavik
18:00 Warsaw = ? Madrid
13:00 Finland = ? London
14:00 Berlin = ? Ankara
10:00 Portugal = 12:00 Lithuania
5:00 Tallinn = 4:00 Oslo
1:00 Moscow = 23:00 Dublin
21:00 Macedonia = 20:00 Reykjavik
18:00 Warsaw = 18:00 Madrid
13:00 Finland = 11:00 London
14:00 Berlin = 16:00 Ankara
This is a huge expanse of lowland that stretches across western and northern Europe (include how many kilometers it is).
the North European Plain (4,000 km)
What are Europe's longest & 2nd longest rivers? (name and length!!!) What body of water do they flow into?
Volga = longest (3690 chem), Caspian Sea
Danube = 2nd longest (2850 chem), Black Sea
What are bays and gulfs? How are they different?
large areas of the sea that cut into land, gulfs are bigger than bays
What are watersheds? name those in Spain
watershed is a group of the rivers that flow into the same sea or ocean
Cantabrian, Atlantic, Mediterranean watersheds