Europe Flashcards

(47 cards)

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Mediterranean Sea

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A sea that all Southern Europe countries touch

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Pyrenees

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Form a boundary between Spain and France

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Apennines

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They run along the whole peninsula

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Alps

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Europes highest mountains

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Mediterranean climate

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A type of climate found across Southern Europe

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Pope

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The spiritual head of the Roman Catholic Church

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Vatican City

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An independent state located within the city of Rome

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Sicily

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An island at the peninsula’s tip

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Naples

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A busy port ad thy biggest city in southern Italy

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Milan

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Worldwide center for fashion design

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Rome

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Italy’s capital

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Iberia

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The westernmost peninsula of Europe

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Parliamentary Monarchy

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The king rules with help of an elected parliament

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Madrid

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The capital

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Barcelona

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One of the centers of industry

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Lisbon

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A industrial city

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Northern Europe Plain

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A plain that stretches from the Atlantic coast into Eastern Europe

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North Sea

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A very important body of water

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English Channel

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A very important body of water located in the north

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Navigable river

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A river that is deep and wide enough for ships to use

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Paris

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The capital of France

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Amsterdam

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The capital of The Netherlands

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The Hague

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The seat of government for the Netherlands

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Brussels

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The capital of Belgium

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Cosmopolitan
Characterized by many foreign influences
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Berlin
A city
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Chancellor
Prime minster
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Vienna
Austria's capital and largest city
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Cantons
Districts
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Bern
Switzerlands capital
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British isles
A group of islands located across the English Channel
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Scandinavia
A region of islands and peninsulas in far Northern Europe
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Fjord
A narrow inlet of the sea set between high, rocky cliffs
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Geothermal energy
Energy from the heat of Earths interior
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North Atlantic drift
An ocean current that brings warm, moist air across the Atlantic Ocean
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Constitutional monarchy
A type of democracy in which a king or queen serves as head of state but a legislator makes the laws
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Magna Carta
A document that limited the power ok kings it also required everyone to obey the laws
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Disarm
Give up all weapons
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London
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Dublin
Irelands capital
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Carpathians
An extension off of the Alps
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Balkan Peninsula
One of the largest peninsulas in Europe
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Danube
A river that begins in Germany and flows east across the Great Hungarian plain
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Chernobyl
Nuclear power plant
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Infrastructure
The set of resources, like roads, airports, and factories, that a country needs in order to support economic activities
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Warsaw
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Ethnic cleansing
An effort ro remove all members of a group from a country or region