Europe Flashcards
(33 cards)
A protective wall that controls or holds back water.
Dike
A process by which glaciers form and spread.
Glaciation
A deep narrow inlet of the sea between high steep banks.
Fjord
An arm of the north Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia.
The North Sea
Spain and Portugal.
The Iberian peninsula
Triangular arm of land that juts from south eastern Europe into the Mediterranean.
Balkan Peninsula
Europe’s largest mountain system.
Alps
Europe’s most important inland waterway.
Rhine River
River in Northern Italy that flows to the Adriatic Sea.
Po River
A large fertile land that extends from the Atlantic into their Url Mountains.
North European Plain
Capital: Stockholm.
Sweden
Capital: Brussels
Belgium
A Serbian province in Southern Yugoslavia populated predominantly by Albanians.
Kosovo
Capital: Berlin
Germany
What city is owned by the Roman Catholic Church in is ruled by the Pope?
Vatican City
The capital of Eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire- the Crossroads of the East
Constantinople / Byzantine / Istanbul
A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
Spain
The first European nation to send explorers around the West Coast of Africa.
Portugal
Capital: Bern
Switzerland
A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland.
Northern Ireland
A constitutional monarchy in Western Europe on the North Sea.
Netherlands
Republic in Southeastern Europe.
Ukraine
Includes England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom
Paris is the capital.
France
