Landforms
............. has been the primary process by which the landforms of Northern Europe came to be as they are today.
Glaciation
What country is mostly flat with a few hills and mountains?
Finland
Continental glaciers covered much of Northern Europe during what age?
last ice age
Iceland
Finland's what deposits cover nearly one-third of the country?
Peat
Overtime, what has melted and lessened the weight on the land beneath?
Ice
The Kingdom of Denmark also includes the ...... Islands and Greenland in the North Atlantic.
Faeroe
The landscape of Iceland is ............. young.
Geologically
Strong ............... exists between climate and plant and animal life in Northern Europe.
Interrelationships
Peat is vegetable matter found in what?
Swamps
Northern Europe is made of how many countries
Iceland's many rivers and waterfalls are also harnessed to produce what kind of power?
Hydropower
Many of the rivers of the ............. Peninsula are short and do not provide easy connections between cities.
Scandinavian
What is the tundra that plants must adapt to the short, cold growing seasons?
Arctic
.......... power and geothermal energy are significant renewable resources in Finland.
Hydroelectric
Eastern
The word geyser is derived from a geyser in Iceland named what?
Geysir
What is Norways longest river?
Klar-Gota
This area supports a vast coniferous forest. What area?
Southern Sweden
In ..... Sweden exported 9 percent of the world's sawnwood, a wood used to make lumber.
2014
Norway's strongest earthquake measured what on the Richter scale?
6.5
Iceland is located how many miles east of Greenland and how many miles west of Norway
186, 621 miles
What river in Finland is harnessed for hydroelectric power?
Kemi River
Animals in the alpine zone migrate to lower elevations in the winter escape the cold and find what?
Food
Denmark ranks number ... in the world for electricity generated from renewable sources.