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XI. Northern Europe Flashcards

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What 4 countries make up the United Kingdom

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England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland

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What 5 countries make up the British Isles?

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England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland

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What 5 countries make up Scandinavia?

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Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland

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London, England

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Capital and largest on the Thames River

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What is the capital of England?

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London

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What River goes through London?

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Thames River

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5 sites of tourism in London

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  1. Big Ben
  2. Tower of London
  3. West minister Abby
  4. Buckingham Palace
  5. St. Paul’s Cathrdral
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Liverpool, England

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Western port

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Manchester, England

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Textile industry

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What mountain range is in England

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Pennine Mtns

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_______ __________ through out most of England

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North plains

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4 significant bodies of water surrounding England

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  1. North Sea
  2. Straight of Dover
  3. English Channel
  4. Irish Sea
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12
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Fraction of income made from farming in England

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2/3

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In England what two animals are mainly raised

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Cattle and sheep

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14
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North Sea- Dogger banks is important for

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Important exports

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What is the major export in England

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Textiles

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Government of England?

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Constitutional monarchy

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Queen of England

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Queen Elizabeth II

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Prime minister of England?

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David Cameron

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Parliament of England

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House of lord’s and House of Commons

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Capital of Wales

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Cardiff

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Mountain range that goes through Wales?

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Cambrian Mountains

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Language of Wales is a dialect of _______ and some ________

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English, Gaelic

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23
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The Prince of Wales is also the?

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Heir to the British throne

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24
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Capital of Scotland?

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Edinburgh

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Largest city in Scotland?

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Glasgow

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Glasgow, Scotland is on what River?

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Clyde

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The rugged highlands in Scotland are the

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Grampians

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Scotland is the birthplace of what faith?

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Presbyterian

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Traditional Scottish things?

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Kilts, bag pipes, and Lochness Monster

30
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Three island groups to the north of Scotland?

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Shetland, Orkneys, and Hebrides

31
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Capital of a Northern Ireland?

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Belfast

32
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City of Londondary, Norhtern Ireland

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Known for linen factories

33
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Northern Ireland is also called?

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Ulster

34
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Capital if Ireland?

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Dublin

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Other major city in Ireland(besides Dublin)

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Cork

36
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Ireland has been an independent republic since what year?

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1921

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Ireland is mostly ______, _____ _______ ______ ____ _________

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Low lands, good pastureland for livestock

38
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River in Ireland

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Shannon

39
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Peat bogs

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Found in Ireland, is soil with a heavy concentration of organic material. Used as a source of heat and electrical energy. Ireland is the second biggest exporting peat country behind Russia.

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95% of people in Ireland are ________ religion

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Catholic

41
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Patron saint of Ireland?

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St.Patrick

42
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Cultural myths of Ireland

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Leprechauns and Blarney Stone

43
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Mountain range in Scandinavia

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Killeen Mountains

44
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Scandinavia is know for it’s _____ building

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Ship

45
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Sami

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Live in the extreme north of Scandinavia, mainly Finland, and are formerly called laps, wore a lot of reds and blues and depend on the reindeer herds. Native people like the Inuit of North America

46
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Capital of Norway

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Oslo

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Large city in Norway

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Bergen

48
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Fjords of Norway

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Deep, narrow inlets of sea formed by movement of glaciers

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What country has the highest GDP in Scandinavia

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Norway

50
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What current keeps the west coast of Norway open to ships?

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Gulf Stream Current

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Much ____ and ____ in Norway is in the North Sea

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Oil and fishing

52
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Capital of Sweden

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Stockholm

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Large city in Sweden

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Goteborg

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What is the largest Scandinavian country in area and population

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Sweden

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Sweden’s coast is on the _____ sea and the gulf of ______

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Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia

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2 types of cars made in Sweden

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Volvo Saab

57
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Sweden produces a lot of what from its lumber kills

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Paper

58
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Capital of Finland

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Helsinki

59
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Finland has a ____ culture background

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Asian

60
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Capital of Denmark

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Copenhagen

61
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Denmark is located on what Peninsula

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The Jutland Peninsula

62
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What percent of the land in Denmark is farmed

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50

63
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Denmark also owns what island?

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Greenland

64
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Capital of Iceland

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Reykjavik

65
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Iceland is and island nation on what ocean

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North arctic

66
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Iceland has the worlds ____ capital

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Northern most capital

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