europe vocab

human geography

8 cards·by adriana.mcmains

Channel

length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water

dike

a large bank of earth and stone, built to hold back water

polder

land reclaimed from the sea

glaciation

glaciers that formed and spread over the Scandinavian Peninsula in the last Ice Age

fjords

long, narrow, steep-sided inlets on the Atlantic coast of Norway, carved by glaciers

timberline

the elevation above which trees cannot grow

foehns

dry winds that blow down from the

avalanche

destructive masses of ice, snow, and rock sliding down mountain sides, often caused by foehns