Europe
What is the Eurozone?
What are fjords?
The Italian, Scandinavian, and Iberian type of landform in Europe that are connected to a landmass on one side, but surrounded by water on all other sides
What are peninsulas?
A common problem for nations along the northern coast of Europe in the North European Plain region
What is flooding?
A political union empowered to directly exercise some powers and functions typically given to countries
What is a supranational union?
Elevated ridges along a waterline intended to protect against flooding
What are dikes?
The highest point in Western Europe
What is Mont Blanc?
One of the two bodies of the European Union that amends, approves, or vetoes proposals of the European Commission
What are the Council of the European Union or the European Parliament?
The right to propose new legislation
What is the right to initiative?
A typically triangular landform made as sediment is deposited where a river empties into stagnate/calm waters
What is a river delta?
Central range of mountains that divide Europe into the North European Plains and southern highlands, this range connects to the Carpathians in the southeast
What are the Alps?
The two types of renewable energy that are easily generated by the tempestuous weather of the North Sea
What are wind and wave power?
A border free travel zone among European nations
What is the Schengen area?
Low-lying tracts of land enclosed by dykes
What are polders?
The longest river in Western Europe
What is the Danube?
An important shipping/trading route and natural defense barrier for the United Kingdom, this body of water separates the UK from continental Europe
What is the English Channel?
The body within the European Union that holds the right to initiative
What is the European Commission?
The largest brackish water basin in the world
What is the Baltic Sea?
The mountain range that separates the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe, while still dividing the continent into the northern plains and southern highlands
What are the Pyrenees?
This was built in a Norwegian island's permafrost to secure the world's food supply/ability to regrow crops during and after potential global catastrophes
What is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?