Geography Chapter 3 Flashcards
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emerald isle
ireland
religion of Ireland
Catholicism
british isles’s longest river
Shannon river
name given to the long narrow inlets of the sea with rocky steep sides
fjords
nickname given to N Scandinavia for the long evening hours
land of the midnight sun
first modern European to reach mainland NA
leif ericson
what crop made up the famine in Ireland
potatoes
city known as the Venice of the north
stockholm
largest metropolitan center in Scandinavia
copehagen
land of fire and ice
Iceland
Europe’s northernmost capital
re
Europe’s oldest parliament
Althing
three important rivers of Eastern Europe
Danube, neper, vulga
europes longest river
vulgar
worlds deepest freshwater lake
lake bakail
Russias first czar
Ivan the terrible
what is the largest European country
russia
Copenhagen
Moscow
stockholm
receyvik
Dublin
Ireland
allow
London
England