Landforms 1
What has been the primary process by which the landforms of Northern Europe came to be as they are today?
Glaciation
The kingdom of what also includes the Faroe Islandds and Greenland in the North Atlantic?
Denmark
Continental glaciers covered much of Northern Europe during which ice age?
Last
The frozen ground prevents plants with deep roots, like trees, from what?
Growing
Hydroelectric power and geothermal energy are significant _______ resources in Finland?
Renewable
What was so heavy that it pressed the land down into the Earth's mantle?
The ice that covered Northern Europe
What plains make up most of the Jutland Peninsula's interior in Denmark?
Flat Plains
After the glaciers melted, what is left behind on a flat landscape blocked rivers and trapped water like dams.
debris
Natrual what varies from forest and grasslands to tundra plants?
Vegetation
What country ranks number one in the world for electricity generated from renewable sources?
Denmark?
What country is mostly flay with a few hills and mountains?
Finland
At 839,399 square miles what is the world's largest island?
Greenland
The Muonio and Torne Rivers flow along the border of what two countries?
Finland and Sweden
Marine west coast, humid continental, subartic, and tundra are what?
Climate regions
In 2014 Finland exported over What percent of the paper and paperboard traded on the global market?
9 percent
Northern Europe is made up of five countries what are they?
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland
What two natural resources provide Iceland with sustainable and inexpensive sources of energy?
Geothermal energy and hydropower
Many rivers of the what are short and do not provide easy connections between cities?
Scandinavian Peninsula
The subarctic climate region covers most of what half of Scandinavia?
Northern
What kind of energy provides heat for the entire capatial city of Reykjavik?
Geothermal
How were the landforms of Svalbard created?
Through repeated Ice ages and the folding and faulting associated with continental drift an plate tectonic
What Islands, and Island group and archipelago, are located about halfway between Iceland and Norway?
Faeroe Islands
What is Norways longest river?
Klar-Gota
Aniamls in the what zone migrate to lower elevations in the winter to escape the cold and find food?
Alpine
What is a important natural resource in Norway?
Magnesium