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Europe Geography terms
Question | Answer |
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What is a dike? | An embankment to confine or control water; a levee |
What is Eurasia? | A name given to Asia and Europe as one continent |
What is Europe? | The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains |
What is a gorge? | A deep ravine (a narrow steep-sided valley), usually with a river running through it |
What is a harbor? | a portion of a sea, a lake, or other larger body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven |
What is a horn? | A mountaintop that has been modified by the action of ice during glaciation and frost weathering |
What does navigable mean? | Able to be sailed on or through safely |
What is a mountain pass? | A place in a range of mountains that is lower than the surrounding peaks |
What is a peninsula? | A large mass of land that extends out into a body of water |
What does sea level mean? | The level of the ocean's surface, especially the level halfway between mean high and low tide, used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depths |