Cultural Geography - Chapter 11

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14 islands and 50 bridges

How many islands does Stockholm cover? How many bridges is it connected by?

By an undersea volcanoes, Mount Hekla

How was Surtsey, an island off the south coast of Iceland, created?

lowland plains

In the south part of Sweden, what is one-third of the land?

A country ruled by a duke

Luxembourg is one of the few remaining Dutchmen. What is a dutchy?

The work hard to keep their environment one of the cleanest in the world

What do the Finns work hard to do?

Sami

What do the Lapps call themselves?

merchant's harbor

What does Copenhagen mean?

It often hosts peace talks between warring nations

What does Helsinki often host?

Contains the heart of Lapland, which extends into Sweden, Norway, and Russia

What does northern Finland contain? What does this extend into?

The third largest mountain system in the world

What does the Alpine Mountains form?

Wallonia

What is Belgium's southern district called?

Called the "Land of Ten Thousand Lakes" because of its southern interior

What is Finland called? Why?

Baltic Sea

What is Finland's only access to the ocean?

Libson

What is Portugal's capital and largest city?

The Land of the Midnight Sun

What is Scandinavia?

Southern Uplands

What is Scotland's border with England's Pennines known as?

Tagus; Meseta

What is Spain's longest River? What does it cut in half?

The last frontier of Europe

What is Sweden's sparsely populated Northland considered as?

A wasteland on a high, treeless plateau

What is a moor?

Pennines; the backbone of England

What is a mountain system that extends south from Scotland to the Midlands? What do they form?

Ardennes

What is a series of rolling hills located in the south of Belgium?

Land of Fire and Ice

What is another name for Iceland?

Scotland

What is known for its locks and glens?

Luxembourg

What is one of Europe's oldest settlements?

Copenhagen; one-third of the country's population

What is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world? How much of the population does it house?

Helsinki; it is the main seaport and largest city

What is the Finland's capital? In hat two ways is this city important to Finland?

Germany

What is the birthplace of Reformation?

Amsterdam

What is the capital and largest city of Scandinavia?

Vienna

What is the capital and the largest city of Austria?

Madrid (highest capital in Europe)

What is the capital city of Spain?

Copenhagen; Denmark's largest island; Zeeland

What is the capital of Denmark? Where is it located? What is it called?

Luxembourg

What is the capital of Luxembourg?

Cardiff

What is the capital of Wales?

The Jean Bernard Cave (reaches 1mike be.ow the surface)

What is the deepest cave in the world?

Berlin

What is the heart of Germany?

Apulia

What is the heel of Italy's boot called?

Grossglockner

What is the highest and most ga,ous mountain in Austria?

Mont Blanc

What is the highest mountain in the Alps?

Ben Nevis

What is the highest mountain in the British Isles?

Central England

What is the home of the Industrial Revolution?

Sweden

What is the largest Scandinavian country and the fourth largest country in the world?

Brussels

What is the largest city in Belgium?

France

What is the largest country in Europe?

Greenland

What is the largest island in the world?

Loire River

What is the longest River in France?

Hamburg

What is the main seaport and the third-largest city in Germany?

Althing: Iceland's

What is the oldest parliamentary assembly still in existence in the world? Who's National Assembly is it?

Alps

What is the primary range in the Alpine Mountains?

Lyon; lies in Rhine River valley

What is the third-largest city in France? Where is it located?

Manchester

What is the third-largest metropolitan area in the British Isles?

A mild climate and fertile soil

What makes the lowland plains Sweden's best agricultural region?

Alps

What mountain range divide France form Italy?

islands and mainland peninsulas; it

What parts of Denmark lie farther south than the rest of Scandinavia? What does this make?

islands and mainland peninsula; making its winters less severe

What parts of Denmark lies father south than the rest of Scandinavia? What does having these places in this location make?

Seine River; Paris

What river does the capital of France lie on? What is the capital?

Martin Luther

What was born in Germany?

An old Moorish word; thickly wooded place

What word did Andorra come from? What does this word mean?

950

When did Denmark become an independent country?

from 1013 to 1042

When did Denmark rule England?

Joined in 1995 and doesn't use the euro

When did Sweden join the European Union? What does it not use?

In mountainous areas

Where do Basques live?

In the north, where the Danube River winds through the foothills of the Alps

Where do most people in Austria live?

In the heart of Lapland

Where have the Lapps tended reindeer for thousands of years?

It lacks mineral resources

Why does Denmark depend heavily on agriculture and trade?

Corsican Ogre

What did the British call Napoleon?

the Gulf of Bothnia

Along what gulf does Finland have a long coastline?

Rotterdam; Rhine River

One of Europe's busiest ports, __________, lies in the delta of the busiest rivers on the continent, the _________ _________.

Since 1917

Since what year has Finland Ben independent?

Aquitainain Lowlands

The two provinces of southwest France are mostly lowlands. What is this region called?

Finland's language and physical features are related to northern Russia

Unlike the rest of Scandinavia, Finland relates in what ways to northern Russia?

Pyrenees Mountains

What Mountains form the border between France and Sweden?

Meseta; tableland

What Plateau extends from Madrid across most of interior Spain? What does this mean?

Locks

What are deep, narrow lakes carved by glaciers?

Glens

What are narrow valleys carved by glaciers?

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland

What are the five countries of Scandinavia?

Dutch, French, and German

What are the three official languages of Belgium?

Skagerrak and Kattegat

What are the two arms of the North Sea?

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.

What countries does Scandinavia consists of?

One century under Russia control and seven centuries under Swedish control

What country did the Finns spend a century under? What country did the Finns spend seven centuries under?

Shares northern border with Norway and south with Skagerrak and Kattegat

What country does Sweden share most of its western border with? the south?

Sweden

What country has one of the highest life expectancies in the world while having one of the lowest birth rates?

Luxembourg

What country has the highest GDP per capital of any country in the world?


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