27. General uplands
• Hills, low mountains, and plateaus.
• Several, such as the Scottish Highlands, the Meseta in
Spain and the Massif Central in France.
33. • Europe is kept relatively warm due to wind and ocean
currents bringing warmer tropical air north.
• This is the North Atlantic Drift.
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35. • Mountain ranges tend to block some of the cold, dry
winds from the north from affecting the Mediterranean
region, but some parts without mountain cover still get
it.
• The mistral wind is an example.
• Sometimes they also get the sirocco wind, a warm, dray
wind sweeping in from North Africa.
44. • The dikes are earthen dams that help hold back the sea
from the Netherlands generally.
• There also terpen, which are high areas people can
go to in case of flooding.