Northern Europe Vocabulary

energy created from the heat of the Earth’s interior

• geothermal

• nuclear

• solar

• steam

a group of islands off northwestern coast of Europe including Britain and Ireland

• Scandinavian Peninsula
• Iberian Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula
• British Isles

a narrow inlet of the sea set between high, rocky cliffs

• Fjord
• Archipelago
• Plateau
• Canyon

a warm ocean current that brings warm, moist air across the Atlantic Ocean to Northern Europe

• Arctic Stream
• North Atlantic Drift

• Antarctic Current
• Pacific Drift

a type of democracy in which a monarch serves as head state but legislature makes the laws

• Legislative monarchy
• Absolute monarchy
• Constitutional monarchy
• Autocratic monarchy

a document signed in 1215 by King John of England that required the king to honor certain rights

• Magna Carta
• King's Decree
• Monarch Mandate
• Royal Edict

to give up all weapons

• disarm
• weaponize
• armament
• militarize

the capital of England and the United Kingdom

• London
• Paris
• Madrid
• Berlin

the capital of Ireland

• Galway
• Belfast
• Cork
• Dublin

Scandinavian warriors who raided Europe in the early Middle Ages

• Vikings
• Pirates
• Greeks

• Barbarians