Europe Geography Vocabulary

Self-governing

• Peninsula

• Sovereign

• Permafrost

• Arable

The second longest river in Europe and an important shipping route across the continent.

• Mediterranean Sea

• Danube River

• Rhine River

• English Channel

Located in western Russia and forms the boundary between European and Asia

• Pyrenees Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Alps

• Iberian Peninsula

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

• Island

• Peninsula

• Inlet

If a person were to travel from France to the United Kingdom, which European physical feature would they most likely use?

• Mediterranean Sea

• Rhine River

• European Plains

• English Channel

Energy particles or rays that are given off from a radioactive elemen, such as uranium, as it decays

• Radical rays

• Nuclear radiation

• Smog

• Acid rain

Air pollution caused by sunlight acting on the gases from automobile and factory exhausts

• Smog

• Acid rain

• nuclear radiation

Pollution from factories, auto exhaust and burning of fossil fuels mixed with rain

• Nuclear radiation

• Smog

• Acid rain

• Nuclear rain

The world's largest inland sea located between Europe, Africa and Asia

• Black Sea

• North Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Arctic Sea

Mountain range that extends along the border between France and Spain

• Iberian

• Alps

• Pyrenees

• Ural