Landforms
The highest peak in Europe.
Mt. Elbrus
The capital of Greece.
Athens
The most accurate display of the earth's features, showing correct shapes, sizes and locations.
This body of water separates Great Britain from Continental Europe.
English Channel
Jerusalem
A narrow strip of land that connects two landmasses.
Isthmus
The capital of Spain.
Madrid
A person skilled in in displaying geographic information on maps and globes.
Cartographer
The narrow waterways that serve as a means of transportation in Florence, Italy.
Canals
This tiny European country is the world's smallest independent state.
Vatican City
The world's largest peninsula.
Arabian Peninsula
The capital of Russia.
Moscow
The imaginary lines that run east and west around the globe.
Lines of latitude
Suez Canal
North and South Korea are divided along this parallel.
38th
This plateau is known as the "roof of the world".
Tibet
The capital of Iraq.
Baghdad.
The imaginary lines that run north and south around the globe.
Lines of longitude
The lowest point on land.
The Dead Sea
The communists built a wall in this German city to keep people from escaping to freedom.
Berlin
1/4 of the land of the Netherlands is this type of land that has been reclaimed from the sea through the use of dikes, dams and windmills.
Polder
The capital of Italy.
Rome
The line that runs north and south around the globe and divides the planet into eastern and western hemispheres.
Prime Meridian
This narrow body of water separates the Iberian Peninsula from North Africa.
Strait of Gibraltar
The four major political divisions of the United Kingdom.
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales