Chapter 15

Question 1

Fertile

Answer 1

able to produce abundant crops

Question 2

ore

Answer 2

rocky material containing a valuable mineral ( a lot of ore in Britain)

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

brought wealth but changed Britain’s landscape

Question 4

SCOTLAND

Answer 4

1/3 of land area of United Kingdom

Question 5

Highlands

Answer 5

large, high plateau with many lochs

Question 6

lochs

Answer 6

lakes

Question 7

moors

Answer 7

broad, treeless rolling plains

Question 8

bogs

Answer 8

areas of wet spongy ground

Question 9

glen

Answer 9

a narrow valley

Question 10

Scottland

Answer 10

maintains important cultural and political independence from England

Question 11

Wales

Answer 11

Maintains separate language (20%)

Question 12

Peat

Answer 12

spongy material containing waterlogged mosses and plants

Question 13

Ireland

Answer 13

cooperation and conflict - history of invasion and wars

Question 14

religious conflicts

Answer 14

Irish Catholics and English Protestants - led to deliberate efforts to keep cultures separate

Question 15

Potato Famine

Answer 15

Hit Ireland in the 1840s, about one million irish died of starvation or disease

Question 16

blight

Answer 16

plant disease that caused potato famine

Question 17

Nordic Nations

Answer 17

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark - long winters and short summers

Question 18

Norden

Answer 18

ancient word meaning northlands

Question 19

fjords

Answer 19

flooded glacial valleys

Question 20

mixed economics

Answer 20

different degrees of government regulation

Question 21

geothermal energy

Answer 21

energy from the heat of earths’ interior