Political Geography of Europe Answers

Analyze the map below and answer the question that follows. Image courtesy of NASA Spain and Portugal (circled on the map above) are located on the __________ Peninsula, a landform that is separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees.

Which of the following statements about Europe’s most important industries is false?

Glaciation has carved out narrow sea inlets between rocky cliffs in Scandinavia and on Norway’s coasts. These inlets are called __________.

Analyze the map below and answer the question that follows. Image courtesy of the CIA World Factbook The __________ Ocean lies north of Europe and covers the North Pole.

Analyze the photo below and answer the question that follows. Image by vxla The Great __________ Plain, shown in the photo above, stretches across Croatia, Serbia, and Romania and is highly populated because of its fertile soil.

Analyze the photo below and answer the question that follows. Photo by Alex Guillard In northern Europe, many reclaimed polders, such as the one in the photo above, are created by systems of __________ that have been built to hold back water.

A(n) __________ is a warm, dry wind that blows down the side of a mountain.

Three-fourths of the over 500,000 lakes in Europe are found in __________.

Analyze the image below and answer the question that follows. Image by Pflatau The image above shows a common European weather pattern. This pattern pushes warm, dry African winds called __________ toward Europe.

Analyze the photo below and answer the question that follows. Photo by Jorge1767 Europe’s many __________ are widely used for transportation, leisure, and tourism.