Geography #1 (Basic Europe)

Scandinavian Mountains

(Europe: Norway, Sweden) Mountains of the Scandinavian Peninsula; geologically part of the same system as the Appalachians; coastal areas are heavily fjorded

Aegean Sea

A body of water by Mediterranean Sea that touches the borders of Greece & Asia Minor. It also has many islands in it, including Crete.

North European Plain

A large, fertile area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains

Carpathian Mountains

A mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania.

Apennine Mountains

A mountain range on the Italian peninsula

Rhineland

A region in Germany designated a demilitarized zone by the Treaty of Versailles; Hitler violated the treaty and sent German troops there in 1936

Scandinavia

A region of islands and peninsulas in far Northern Europe...typically containing Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland

Rubicon River

A river in Italy. On the night of January 10, 49 BC, Caesar took his army across it. He marched his army swiftly toward Rome, and Pompey fled.

Rhine River

A river in Western Europe that flows from eastern Switzerland into the North Sea.

Exclaves

A segment of land that is apart from the mainland of its country (Kaliningrad for example)

Enclaves

Any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group, territory or region

Ionian Sea

Body of water to the west of mainland Greece and around the southern portion of Italy

Balkans

Botev Peak of Bulgaria is in this mountain range

Nuuk

Capital of Greenland

Elbe River

Eisenhower held Allied troops at this location, allowing the Soviets to reach Berlin first at the close of WW2...River in central Europe, flows from Czech Republic to the North Sea

Mt. Etna

Europe's highest active volcano...located on Sicily

Dnieper River

Flows from Russia through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Kiev is a port city here.

Ruhr Valley

Germany's chief industrial and mining center; French soldiers occupied the area when Germany stopped paying reparations after World War I

Tagus River

Iberian Peninsula's longest river...though Portugal and Spain

Polder

Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.

Black Sea

Large body of water separating Ukraine from Turkey...the Crimean Peninsula is on this sea

Baltic States

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, three countries that border the Baltic Sea are collectively called the...

Carpathians

Moldolveanu Peak of Romania is in this mountain range

France and Italy

Mont Blanc lies in the Alps on the border between what two countries?

Monaco

Monte Carlo is found in...

Pyrenees

Monte Perdido of Spain is in this mountain range

Caucasus

Mount Elbrus of Russia is in this mountain range

Dinaric Alps

Mountain range located along the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Albania...on the western side of the Balkan Peninsula

North Macedonia

New name of Macedonia

Kola Peninsula

North of Karelia and the White Sea in Russia

Greenland

Nuuk (Nuke) is the capital of this, the largest island in the world

The Scottish Highlands

Once were mountains until erosion wore them down...now are rolling green hills of Scotland

Bay of Biscay

Part of Atlantic, bordered west coast of France, north coast of Spain

Iberian Peninsula

Peninsula in southwestern Europe occupied by Spain and Portugal

Montenegro

Podgorica is the capital of...

Ebro River

River in Spain that acted as a border for Carthage after Hasdrubal's deal with Rome

Po River

River in northern Italy that flows to the Adriatic Sea.

Tiber River

River that runs through Rome

Neva River

River where ships could sail down into the Baltic Sea, around St. Petersburg, Russia.

White Sea

Sea above Russia, south of the Kola Peninsula

Adriatic Sea

Sea on the eastern side of Italy...west of Croatia and Bosnia

Volga River

The longest river in Europe and Russia's most important commercial river...empties into the Caspian Sea

Reykjavik

The northern most world capital city.... in Iceland

Oder River

The river that makes the border between Poland and Germany...empties into the Baltic Sea

Danube River

The second-longest river of Europe. It flows from southern Germany east into the Black Sea.

Gotthard Base Tunnel

This is the world's longest rail tunnel and is located in Switzerland going 35 miles under the Alps

Ural Mountains

This north-south range separates Siberia from the rest of Russia. It is commonly considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia.

Mount Vesuvius

Volcano that erupted in 79 AD that killed many people and buried the city of Pompeii...south of Naples, Italy

Loire River

What is the longest river in France?

Black Forest

What is the name of the famous forest in southern Germany?

Vatican City

What is the smallest country in the world?

Lapland

What name is given to the region north of the Arctic Circle containing portions of Sweden, Norway and Russia?

Albania

Which European country uses this flag?

Denmark

Which European country uses this flag?

Seine River

a French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel

Vistula River

a river in Poland that flows 678 miles from the Carpathian Mountains to the Baltic Sea through Warsaw

Baltic Sea

a sea in northern Europe...see map

North Sea

an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles (English Channel) and Scandinavia (Norwegian Sea)

Bosporus Strait

connect the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, which leads to the Mediterranean...Constantinople was built here...Istanbul is here

Kaliningrad

exclave of Russia bordered by Poland and Lithuania

Rhone River

flows through Switzerland and France to the Mediterranean Sea.

River Thames

flows through the center of England and through London

Spree River

river that flows through Berlin

Neman River

river that rises in Belarus, flows west through Lithuania (along Lithuania's southern border with Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad), and flows into the Curonian Lagoon; Alexander I and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Tilsit on a raft in the Neman

Balkan Mountains

the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan PeninsulaT

Jutland Peninsula

the peninsula on which Denmark is located

Massif Central

the uplands (elevated area) of France, which account for about one-sixth of French lands