World Geography Chapter 10 Review

Changes the pH of water and soil.

Acid rain

The climate type where vegetation doesn't grow up north.

Arctic Tundra

Carbon being decomposed and stored in trees and the soil in what forest?

Boreal

Act of unloading, transferring, or distributing part or all of a shipment.

Break of bulk

What kind of government in which they have royalty and elected officials.

Constitutional Monarchy

Relating to or characteristic of a continent, connected to the mainland of Europe.

Continental

The boreal forests have suffered because of what?

Deforestation

What country although technically not located on the Scandinavian peninsula but is still considered part of the peninsula.

Denmark

What country owns Greenland?

Denmark

The practice and business of recreational travel based on concern for the environment.

Ecotourism

Commercial center where goods are received and reshipped.

Entrepot

One of Denmark's literary heroes Hans Christian Anderson, what kind of stories did he write?

Fairytales

Kemi river produces hydroelectric power for what Scandinavian country.

Finland

What country that we looked at in northern Europe which doesn't have an official religion.

Finland

A long, steep-sided glacial valley now filled by seawater.

Fjord

What is the biggest island in the world?

Greenland

Why is northern Europe warm?

Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Drift

The word geyser comes from what country because of its geothermal energy.

Iceland

What European country is described as having an ethnically homogenous population.

Iceland

What country is in both the European continental shelf and North American continental shelf?

Iceland

A non-indigenous or non-native species that threatens ecosystems, habitats, or other species.

Invasive species

The people that live in Scandinavia known as Norsemen are also known as ________?

Vikings

A state that assumes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens.

Welfare state

What country is not a member of the EU but has a lot of workers due to petroleum.

Norway

What sea has a lot of eutrophication and over fishing.

Baltic Sea

A form of energy conversion that captures heat energy from within energy.

Geothermal

A spring that throws forth intermittent jets of heated water and steam.

Geyser

A process by which accumulated ice and snow turn into a glacier.

Glaciation

In the far north they are nomadic people with reindeer.

Sami