Europe Physical Geography

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

• Taiga

• Alpine Mountains

• Peninsula

• Fjord

A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley

• Peninsula

• Western Uplands

• Fjord

• Taiga

These winds blow from west to east and keep most of Western Europe and coastal Northern Europe warm

• Subarctic

• Westerlies

• Humid Continental

• Siberia

The busiest waterway in Europe. Connects industrial regions to the North Sea and runs through the most populated region of Europe

• Rivers in Western Europe

• Danube River

• Rhine River

• Tagus River

Describing evergreen trees that produce cones to hold seeds and that have needles instead of leaves

• Deciduous

• Invasive

• Coniferous

• Peat

Decaying vegetable (plant) matter that can be dug up, cut into blocks, dried and used as fuel for heating

• Taiga

• Deciduous

• Coal

• Peat

A mountain range that extends along the border between France and Spain

• Appalachian Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Pyrenees Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

A vast, flat area stretching from France's coast to the Ural Mountains in Russia

• Danube River

• Ural Mountains

• European Plain

• Ukraine

The largest country in the world, which covers all of northern Asia and almost half of Europe

• Russia

• Ukraine

• Poland

• Switzerland

Mountain range located in western Russia; forms the boundary between Europe and Asia

• Alps Mountains

• Pyrenees Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Rocky Mountains