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Western Europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dikes | Walls or barrios to hold back the water. |
| Polders | Land the Dutch reclaimed from the sea. |
| Estuary | Part of the sea that connects to the lower end of a river. |
| Westerlies | Strong winds that travel WEST to EAST....WE |
| Deciduous | Trees with regular leaves, sheds in the winter. |
| Coniferous | Trees with something other than leaves, like pinecones or needle like leaves and keeps them in the winter. |
| Smelting | Melt and fuse metals together. |
| Feudalism | The kings, Nobles, Peasants/commoners. Used to protect against other countries. |
| Middle Ages | Time period also called the Medieval Ages. |
| Pilgrimage | One of the important rituals in Medieval European society. (Jerusalem) |
| Parliament | When a church shares the same power as the government. |
| Industrialized | Change from agricultural society to Factories and machinery. |
| Holocaust | Murder of 6 million Jews in WW2 by Natzis. (Hitler) |
| Postindustrial | When an economy or country depends more on the service industry than the industrial industry. |
| Two mountain ranges that divide and separate Western Europe from other nations. | Pyrenees and Apls. |
| 4 former countries that now make up England. (U.K.) | England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. |
| What separates England from France. (Hint) Its a waterway. | English Chanel. |
| 5 important rivers of Western Europe. | Thames, Rhine, Elbe, Danube, and Loire. |
| 4 important energy resources found throughout Western Europe. | Coal, Natural gas, Peat, and oil |
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