Europe Vocabulary

________________________ is a large strip of land with water on three sides.

• Isthmus

• Peninsula

• Continent

• River

The Rhine River flows in what general direction?

• West

• East

• South

• North

The biggest mountain range in Europe is the

• Alps

• Danube

• Germany

• Italy

Rivers are useful for

• trade (people ship good in and out on them)

• food (people eat the fish from the rivers & animals that are drawn to the river)

• irrigation (watering) of farmland / crops

• all of the above

Political maps show the ________________ of countries, states, counties, or continents.

• land elevation differences

• boundaries

• mountains

• none of the above

This is an example of a

• Political map

• Physical map

• none of the above

• all of the above

range in south-central Europe that stretches through France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria.

• The Alps Mountains

• Carpathian Mountains

• Caucasus Mountains

large area of flat land with a few trees

• volcano

• tundra

• peninsula

• plains

Busy streets, traffic, many people walking, and noise are all descriptors of what term describing a big city?

• urban area

• rural area

Located in the country. 

• Urban

• Rural