Chapter 11 Vocabulary

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Glaciation

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Is the process in which glaciers formed and spread.

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Alps

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Its mountain system forms forms a crescent form southern France to the Balkan Peninsula.

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Rhine

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One of Europe's major rivers that run through the Alps.

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Po

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One of Europe's major rivers that run through the Alps.

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Northern European Plain

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Scoured by Ice Age glaciers the Great European Plain, stretches form southeastern England and western France eastward to Poland,Ukraine, and Russia.

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Loess

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A fine, rich,wind-borne soil left by glaciers,cover it.

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Dikes

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Large banks of earth and stone, to hold back water

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Polders

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reclaimed land that were once drained and kept dry by the use of windmills

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Fjords

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Long narrow, steep-sided inlets on the Atlantic coastline

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Baltic Sea

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Lowlands in Sweden slope through here

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North Sea

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The Jutland Peninsula forms the mainland part of Denmark and extends in the North Sea.

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British Isles

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Lies northwest of the mainland

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Aegean Sea

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Greece's nearly has 2,000 islands here.

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Danube River

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Flows from southern Germany's Black Forest through Hungary and Romania to the Black Sea

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Black Sea

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Is eastern Europe's major waterway

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France

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Has mild climate

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Permafrost

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Soil that is permanently frozen below the surface

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Norway

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Located in high latitudes and they experience a warmer climate characteristics of mid latitude regions

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Sweden

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Located in high latitudes and they experience a warmer climate characteristics of mid latitude regions

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Timberline

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The elevation above which trees cannot grow

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Mistral

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A strong north wind from the Alps, can send gusts of bitterly cold air into southern France.

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Sirroccos

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Hot, dry winds from North Africa, may bring high temperatures to the region

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Foehns

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Blow down from the mountains into valleys and plains

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Avalanches

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Destructive masses of ice,snow, and rock sliding down mountainsides

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Hungary

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A belt of dry, cold grassland