Europe Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| Peninsula | a piece of land that surrounded on three sides by water |
| Dike | a long wall of embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea |
| Fjord | a long narrow inlet from the sea with steep cliffs or hills as sides |
| Glacier | large areas of slow-moving ice |
| Geyser | a fountain of water and stream that builds up pressure underground and erupts at regular intervals |
| Erosion | process by which rock, sand and soil broken down and carried away |
| canal | a long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
| peat | a brown, soil-like material from the Alps that bring cold winds to southern France high, dry winds from North Africa |
| Mistral | a strong northerly wind from the Alps that bring cold winds to southern France |
| Siroccos | high, dry winds from North Africa |
| grassland | a biome found in dry, temperate interiors of continents characterized by rich soil, tall grasses moderate rainfall herds of grazing animals |
| Protestantism | a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the catholic Church |
| Catholicism | a sect of Christianity that became the center of religion in Rome and spread across the world |
| Judasism | a religion with a belief in one God, originating with Abraham and the Hebrew people, preserved in the Old Testament |
| Islam | a religion based on the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one God (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran (follows are called Muslims) |
| Renaissance | a rebirth or revival |
| Free Enterprise | an economic extermination characterized by private or corporate ownership of captions goods |
| Acid rain | rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions combine with water |
| Pollution | release of harmful material of smoke and fog |
| Fossil fuel | a natural such as coal or gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms |
| Emissions | gasses released into the atmosphere by cars and factories |
| Euro | the basic monetary unit of the European Union |
| Industrialization | the shift to large-scale production using machines |
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