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This country is located on the Iberian Peninsula directly west of France.
What is Spain?
This sea lies between southern Europe and northern Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Most Europeans live in these highly populated areas with cities and towns.
What are urban areas?
This Ukrainian location experienced a major disaster in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
Paris is the capital city of this European country.
What is France?
This country is located across the English Channel from France.
What is the United Kingdom?
This mountain range forms a natural border between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
Most of Russia's population is concentrated in this part of the country.
What is western Russia?
The Chernobyl disaster happened in this year.
What is 1986?
Fertile soil, rivers, and minerals helped make this European landform economically important.
What is the North European Plain (Great European Plain)?
This country is shaped like a boot and extends into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Italy?
This major mountain range stretches through countries such as Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France.
What are the Alps?
Name the European capital located in the United Kingdom.
What is London?
This environmental problem is created when smoke and other pollutants mix with moisture in the air and can reduce visibility.
What is smog?
Moscow is the capital city of this country.
What is Russia?
This country is located between Spain and Germany and is home to Paris.
What is France?
Fertile soil, rivers, and mineral resources helped this large flat region of Europe develop economically.
What is the North European Plain/Great European Plain?
Name the capital city of Germany.
What is Berlin?
Give TWO effects acid rain can have on the environment.
Examples: damage plants and forests, contaminate soil, or pollute water sources.
During the deadly 1952 London smog, cars, home chimneys, and factory smokestacks contributed smoke. This transportation system was the LEAST likely contributor.
What are subway trains?
On a world map, Europe is located mostly north of Africa and west of this continent.
What is Asia?
The Danube River is especially important to European transportation because it connects several of these.
What are major European cities?
Match THREE of these five European capitals with their country: London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, and Rome.
Any three correctly matched with their countries.
Europe has many rivers, seas, channels, and coastlines. Explain ONE major way access to water has helped European countries become economically successful.
Access to water has made it easier for European countries to transport goods and trade with one another and with other parts of the world.
If most of Russia's major cities are located in the western part of the country, what can you conclude about its population?
Most of Russia's population is concentrated in western cities.