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Physical Features
Minerals and Resources
The 4 Major European Biomes
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This mountain range is the most dominant range in Europe.
What is the Alps?
100
This was Europe's main resource until the oil boom of the early 1900s.
What is coal?
100
This major biome of Europe is home to animals like deer and badgers.
What is the temperate forest biome?
100
This term refers to earthen walls built to hold back water.
What are dikes?
100
Of these three items: Arctic Ocean, North Sea, and Black Sea : it's the one that is NOT located in northern Europe.
What is the Black Sea?
200
This sea makes up the southern boundary of Europe, bordering countries like Spain, France, Italy, and Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Most of Europe's oil and natural gas deposits are located here.
What is the North Sea?
200
This major European biome has small trees, shrubs, and drought-resistant plants.
What is the Mediterranean scrub forest biome?
200
If a river is accessible for shipping, it is said to be this kind of river.
What is a navigable river?
200
This mountain range is the boundary between Europe and Asia, running directly through Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
300
Name two of the other three mountain ranges that are a part of the Alpine mountain system.
What are the Apennines, Carpathian Mountains, and the Pyrenees?
300
Europe's major fishing grounds are located in this sea.
What is the North Sea?
300
This major European biome is home to large evergreen forests.
What is the boreal forest biome?
300
This term means fertile, fine-grained, windblown soil.
What is loess?
300
This major European river empties into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube River?
400
This is the major European island that is located the farthest to the north.
What is Iceland?
400
This river of northern Italy has an extremely fertile valley and is a major farming center.
What is the Po River?
400
This major biome of Europe is home to very little plant life, and only hardy animals like foxes and reindeer can survive.
What is the tundra biome?
400
This term refers to the narrow deep inlets of the sea set between high rocky cliffs.
What is fjords?
400
This major European river empties into the Northern Sea.
What is the Rhine River?
500
The Black Sea and the Aegean Sea are connected by this physical feature, which is the boundary line between Europe and Asia.
What is the Bosporus?
500
This European country has sizable deposits of uranium.
What is France?
500
This major European biome is home to wild boars and wild sheep that roam mountainous areas.
What is the Mediterranean scrub forest?
500
This term literally means "lands reclaimed from the sea."
What is polders?
500
This is the name of the warm ocean current that flows along northwestern Europe.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?