Water Systems
This river flows from Switzerland through Germany to the North Sea.
What is the Rhine River?
This forest biome, also known as the taiga, is dominated by evergreen coniferous trees and is common in northern Europe.
What is the boreal forest?
This major mountain range separates much of Southern and Central Europe and affects climate and travel.
What are the Alps?
This is a major push factor that caused people to migrate within Europe.
What is the lack of jobs?
Latitude lines run this direction.
What is east to west?
This sea borders the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany and supports fishing and shipping.
What is the North Sea?
Coastal flooding is a major concern in this low-lying country.
What is the Netherlands?
These landforms in southern Germany are older and lower than the Alps due to erosion over time.
What are the Central Uplands?
Many Western European cities grew where rivers met the sea because of this advantage.
What is a strategic location?
This vocabulary word means land shaped by glaciers.
What is glaciation?
This river flows through Paris and has been crucial to trade and settlement.
What is the Seine River?
This type of climate brings mild winters and cool summers to much of Western Europe.
What is a marine west coast climate?
This large lowland area stretches across Northern France, Belgium, and Germany and is ideal for farming.
What is the Northern European Plain?
This term describes people moving into cities for jobs and services.
What is urbanization?
This imaginary line is 0° longitude and runs through the UK.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Because of access to rivers and seas, most Western European countries are not this.
What is landlocked?
Rising sea levels and melting ice are effects of this global process.
What is climate change?
This current helps keep Western Europe warmer than other places at the same latitude.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Nordic countries invest heavily in this renewable energy source because of their rivers, mountains, and glaciers.
What is hydroelectric power?
Nordic countries are located mostly above 55° N, which refers to this type of geographic coordinate.
What is latitude?
Western Europe has many navigable rivers, which helped promote this economic activity.
What is trade?
The process of planting trees to restore forests is called this.
What is reforestation?
This long, narrow sea inlet carved by glaciers is common along the coast of Norway.
What is a fjord?
This pull factor attracts migrants to Western European cities.
What are economic opportunities?
This imaginary line crosses northern Scandinavia and explains extreme daylight changes in Nordic countries.
What is the Arctic Circle?