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Europe
Term | Definition |
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fjord | long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea |
Scandinavian Peninsula | Norway, Sweden, Finland |
tundra | only supports shallow-rooted plants |
permafrost | permanently frozen ground |
language family | languages with a common base |
Romance languages | Latin root from Ancient Rome |
Germanic languages | the root of English |
public transportation | trains, buses, subways |
Iberian Peninsula | Spain, Portugal, Andorra |
Balkan Peninsula | includes Greece, Serbia, Turkey |
mechanized farming | commercial farms covering many acres |
UN | United Nations |
Cold War | time of conflict between U.S. and Soviet Union |
USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
alliance | agreement between countries |
EU | European Union |
United Kingdom | England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland |
tourism | brings income to local businesses |
service industry | customer gets a service not a product |
privatization | business owned by a private person |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Holland | familiar name for Netherlands |
Dutch | people of Netherlands |
Switzerland | history of neutrality |
neutral country | does not take sides in war |