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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
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