Cultural Geography - Chapter 11
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?
