Geography Lesson 5 Europe

This is the nation-state that occupies Britain and the north-eastern corner of Ireland, located in the Atlantic ocean northwest of France. The United Kingdom is officially called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is divided up into five subregions: Southern England where London is located, Northern England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

1. United Kingdom

This is the Irish-Gaelic word for the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is located west of Wales and England and south of North Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean. Once dominated by Great Britain, Ireland received its freedom form Great Britain in 1921.

10. Eire-

The population of the London (metropolitan area) is ________________.

12,000,000

This is an interior country that is surrounded by other countries, without access to the ocean. Two examples in Europe are Austria and Switzerland.

2. Landlocked location

This is the internal physical location attributes of a geographic location.

3. Site-

A triangular core area of urbanization that is located in the Netherlands, Randstad includes the country's capital city of Amsterdam.

4. Randstad-

In Northern Ireland, approximately ________________ percent of the population is Catholic.

45

A large area of land which includes two or more major metropolitan urban cities. Two examples of conurbation in Europe would be the Randstad in the Netherlands and the Rhine-Ruhr in Germany.

5. Conurbation

Europe's largest port, which commands the gateways to the Rhine and Maas Rivers, is ____________________________.

Rotterdam

These are small sovereign states that can be found throughout Europe. Examples would include Liechtenstein, Malta, and the Vatican City. These are not countries in their own right, but sovereign land and other states recognize their presence.

6. Microstate

This is the external physical location attributes of a geographic location. The situation of a place is its location when compared to surrounding areas, and other cities and towns.

7. Situation-

These is the nickname given to the three nations that are located in the Northwest corner of Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The three countries formed a customs union with each other in 1944, and their trade is based upon complementarity.

8. Benelux

This the name of the region in Western Europe which contains the microstate Liechtenstein, and the countries Switzerland and Austria. This region is landlocked by surrounding countries.

9. The Alpine States-

The two languages spoken by the people of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are ____________________ and ____________________.

English, Irish Celtic

The original settlement at Paris lay on the island of ________________ and was a ________________ outpost two thousand years ago.

Ile de la Cité, Roman

Most of Scotland's population in concentrated in the so-called __________________________.

Lowlands

Germany (West and East combined) is divided into sixteen _________________________ or Federal States for purposes of administration.

Länder

England's Industrial Revolution originated in the region called the ________________.

Midlands or stagnant north

The capital of Liechtenstein is _________________________.

Vaduz

(True or False) The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is part of the United Kingdom (UK). ____________

false

Around the city of London is the so-called ________________, an area around the central city set aside for recreation, farming, and other nonresidential, noncommercial uses.

greenbelt

Two important mineral deposits found in Ireland are of the metals ________________ and ________________.

lead, zinc

The "Southern England" sub-region of the United Kingdom, centering on London, is home to more than ________________ of the UK's 60 million people.

one-third

Reclaimed lands in the Netherlands are called _______________________.

polders

(True or False) The Isle of Man is an internally independent territory that is under the protection of the of the UK. ________________

true