Peninsula
Norway and Sweden share this large northern peninsula.
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
The largest island of the United Kingdom.
What is Great Britain?
This famous range forms a giant arc through Switzerland and Austria.
What are the Alps?
This longest European river flows into the Caspian Sea.
What is the Volga?
Warm ocean current that helps keep Europe mild.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
Denmark sits mostly on this peninsula that points toward Britain.
What is Jutland?
Dublin is the capital of this island west of Great Britain.
What is Ireland?
These mountains block France from Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
The Danube touches nine countries on its way to this sea.
What is the Black Sea?
Hot, dry south wind from North Africa that reaches southern Europe.
What is the sirocco?
Spain and Portugal occupy the Iberian Peninsula, separated from France by these mountains.
What are the Pyrenees?
This island nation was settled by Vikings and still speaks a Scandinavian language.
What is Iceland?
The Apennines run down the middle of this country.
What is Italy?
Castle-lined river that flows north to the North Sea.
What is the Rhine?
Europe grows 33 % of its land in crops; the world average is this percent.
What is 11 %?
The “boot” of Italy sticks out on this peninsula.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
Sicily and Sardinia belong to this country.
What is Italy?
Europe’s tallest peak, Mount Elbrus, stands in this range.
What is the Caucasus?
Rivers like the Rhine and Danube are called “Europe’s links” because they move people and this.
What is trade?
Oil and gas discovered beneath this sea in 1959.
What is the North Sea?
The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic, Aegean, and this warm sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Greenland is politically part of this European kingdom.
What is Denmark?
The Kjølen Mountains edge the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
What are the Kjølen Mountains?
The Northern European Plain is drained by these two rivers (name either).
What are the Rhine / Danube?
Partially decayed plant matter that Irish people cut and burn for fuel.
What is peat?