Europe vocab 1

Question 1

peninsula

Answer 1

a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water

Question 2

balkan

Answer 2

greece

Question 3

Apennine/italian

Answer 3

Italy, San Marino, Vatican city

Question 4

iberian

Answer 4

Spain, portugal

Question 5

jutland

Answer 5

denmark

Question 6

scandinaviann

Answer 6

Sweden, norway

Question 7

mistral

Answer 7

a strong, cold northwesterly wind that blows through the Rhone valley and southern France into the Mediterranean, mainly in winter

Question 8

foehn

Answer 8

a hot southerly wind on the northern slopes of the alps

Question 9

sirocco

Answer 9

a hot wind, often dusty, or rainy, blowing from north Africa across the mediterranean to southern europe

Question 10

enclave

Answer 10

a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct

Question 11

exclave

Answer 11

a portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another or others, as viewed by the home territory

Question 12

rural

Answer 12

in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city

Question 13

urban

Answer 13

in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city

Question 14

peat

Answer 14

a brown deposit resembling soil, formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter in the wet acidic conditions of bogs and fens, and often ct out and dried for use as fuel and in gardening

Question 15

fjord

Answer 15

a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley