Central Europe Geography
Reclaimed land from the sea in the Netherlands.
What are polders?
A steep valley filled with seawater.
What is a Fjord?
What is Dublin?
This man began the protestant reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This movement emphasized progress and freedom.
What is the Enlightenment?
One of the major rivers in Central Europe.
What is the Rhine/Seine River?
Iceland's nickname due to its cold climate and volcanic activity.
What is the Land of Fire and Ice?
The country the Industrial Revolution began in.
What is the United Kingdom?
This series of wars between Christians and Muslims opened up trade between the Middle East and Europe.
What are the Crusades?
The year that the Republic of Ireland gained independence.
When is 1919?
This mountain range forms a crescent shape across Central Europe.
What are the Alps?
The type of climate across Northern Scandinavia.
What is tundra?
The type of government of the United Kingdom.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
The time period in Nordic Europe between the 793 and 1050.
What is the Viking Age?
The systemic killing of the European Jewish and other populations between 1939 and 1945.
What is the Holocaust?
This type of forest loses its leaves seasonally.
What is a deciduous forest?
The two peninsulas of Nordic Europe.
What are the Jutland and Scandinavian Peninsulas?
The capital of Scotland.
What is Edinburgh?
This treaty formed the European Union.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
A climate pattern that brings cold blasts of air into Southern France.
What is a mistral?
Mounds of earth used to hold back water.
What is a dike?
Iceland's major renewable energy resource.
What is geothermal energy?
The shift from handmaking to manufacturing items in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The war that took place between 1939-1945.
What is World War II?
The form of currency used by European Union countries.
What is a Euro?