Europe Vocab Flashcards
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
North Sea
Spain and Portugal
Iberian Peninsula
triangular arm of land that juts from southeastern Europe into the Mediterranean
Balkan Peninsula
Europe’s largest mountain system
the Alps
Europe’s most important inland waterway
Rhine River
River in Northern Italy that flows into the Adriatic Sea
Po River
A large fertile land that extends from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains
North European Plain
A Serbian province in southern Yugoslavia populated predominantely by Albanians
Kosovo
City owned by the Roman-Catholic church and ruled by the people
Vatican city
Includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
European Union
A group of democratic countries working together for peace and prosperity in Europe
A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula
Greece