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Vocab
Landforms & Waterways
Climate
Natural Resources
Miscellaneous
100
Norway's west coast is dotted by narrow, water-filled valleys.
What are fjords?
100
Name the 5 countries included in northern Europe.
What is Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
100
The 2 reasons that the climate conditions in some areas of Europe are harsher than others.
What is landforms, distance from the sea and ocean currents?
100
Trees that can survive in a Mediterranean climate.
What are Olive, fig and cypress?
100
Brings warm water to the southern and western coasts of Iceland.
What is the Gulf Stream
200
The weathering and erosion caused by moving masses of ice.
What is glaciation?
200
An area of land surrounded on 3 sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
Finland is considered _____________ because it receives little influence from the seas.
What is continental?
200
Name the country that is the biggest exporter of oil and natural gas.
What is Norway?
200
Most of Spain lies on this plateau.
What is Meseta Central?
300
A region where subsoil is frozen and only plants such as lichens and mosses can survive.
What is tundra?
300
The sea that dominates the coast of southern Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
The most common climate in Southern Europe.
What is Mediterranean?
300
Because of the volcanic nature of the island, this country has enormous reserves of geothermal energy.
What is Iceland?
300
Italy's nearby islands that make up their own independent country.
What is Malta?
400
Places where short grasses and shrubs are the dominant plants.
What is scrubland?
400
Name the countries that form the Iberian peninsula.
What is Spain and Portugal?
400
The country that touches the Arctic Circle.
What is Iceland?
400
Once a major industry for many countries by the sea, this is now limited to a few small species not believed to be endangered.
What is whaling?
400
It stretches about 2500 miles from the southern coast of Spain in the west coast of Greece, Turkey and various countries of southwest Asia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
Ships in the fishing industry which carry large nets behind them.
What are trawlers?
500
The reason the Baltic Sea is more likely to freeze than other bodies of water in the area.
What is the fact that it is shallow and has a low concentration of salt?
500
Name the features of a Mediterranean climate.
What is warm or hot summers, cool or mild winters, rainy fall and dry summers?
500
Name two reasons that fish populations have been reduced in the region.
What is overfishing and pollution?
500
Italy's most important river that others drain into.
What is the Po?