European physical geography

Question 1

Mediterranean climate

Answer 1

hot, dry summers and cool, rainy winters

Question 2

connects the Med. Sea and Atlantic Ocean

Answer 2

Strait of Gibraltar

Question 3

range between France and Spain, named for a myth involving Hercules

Answer 3

Pyrenees

Question 4

Hannibal staged an invasion of Italy through this range

Answer 4

Alps

Question 5

where you’d find the Italian wolf and Marsican brown bear

Answer 5

Apennines

Question 6

range that runs through central Italy

Answer 6

Apennines

Question 7

range that borders Italy to the north

Answer 7

Alps

Question 8

well-preserved specimen of a human found in the Alps, dates c. 3500 BCE

Answer 8

Otzi the Iceman

Question 9

Spain and Portugal constitute this landmass

Answer 9

Iberian Peninsula

Question 10

body of water bordering southern Europe and northern Africa

Answer 10

Mediterranean Sea

Question 11

second longest river in all of Europe

Answer 11

Danube

Question 12

longest river after the Danube

Answer 12

Rhine

Question 13

body of water borders Europe to the north

Answer 13

North Sea

Question 14

strait between Britain and France

Answer 14

English Channel

Question 15

how a Londoner might get to Paris

Answer 15

Chunnel

Question 16

this river empties into the North Sea

Answer 16

Rhine

Question 17

Budapest is a city in Hungary built on either side of this river

Answer 17

Danube

Question 18

where the vikings once roamed

Answer 18

North Sea

Question 19

a renewable energy that uses earth’s heat

Answer 19

geothermal

Question 20

where you’d find the UK, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man

Answer 20

British Isles

Question 21

theory proposed by Alfred Wegner that the Earth’s plates move

Answer 21

continental drift

Question 22

name for the original supercontinent

Answer 22

Pangea

Question 23

he “discovered” Iceland and started a Viking colony there

Answer 23

Erik the Redd

Question 24

warm ocean current that regulates temperatures in northern Europe

Answer 24

North Atlantic Drift/Current

Question 25

plate boundary on the sea floor that runs between the Americas and Europe/Africa

Answer 25

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Question 26

inlets of water surrounded by steep cliffs

Answer 26

fjords

Question 27

these formed the fjords

Answer 27

glaciers

Question 28

name for the group of countries including Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland

Answer 28

Scandinavia