______ is a traditional term used to identify the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe consisting of two large islands - _______ and _______, and the many smaller adjacent
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1 is a traditional term used to identify the group of islands off the northwest
coast of Europe consisting of two large islands - _ and _, and the many
smaller adjacent islands
2 The Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland or _ and _ Ireland
3 Great Britain consists of England, _ and _ and doesn't include
_
4 Britain is _small, but there is hardly a country in the world where such a
variety of _ can be found in so small a _
5 There are wild _ mountains in the northern _ of Scotland - the home
of the deer and the _ - which are as _ as any in Norway
6 There are flat _ fields round the _ - a blaze of colour in spring, that
would make you think you were in Holland
7 Within a few miles of the dirt and smoke of Manchester and Sheffield you can be in
glorious _-covered moors
8 The North Sea and _ separate the British Isles _ European continent
9 Once the British Isles were part of the _ of Europe
10 The _ of the British Isles are washed by the _ and the North and
Irish Seas
11 On the northwest the coasts are broken by high rocky _
12 This is especially noticeable in northwest Scotland, where you have long winding
_, called " _", and a great many islands
13 In Scotland you have three _ regions There are, firstly, the _, and
then there is the central plain or _
14 Finally there are the southern uplands, " _" with their gently rounded hills
where the sheep _
15 Here there are more sheep to the _ mile than anywhere in the _
16 In England and Wales all the high land is _ the west and northwest
17 The southeastern plain reaches the West Coast only at one or two places - at
the Bristol Channel and by the _ of the rivers Dee and Mersey
18 In the north you find the _, separating England from Scotland, the
_ going down England like a _ and the Cumbrian Mountains in the
_ , one of the loveliest (and the wettest) parts of England
19 The position of the mountains naturally determined the direction and length of
the rivers, and the longest rivers, except _ and Clyde, flow into the _
20 The rivers in Britain are of no great _as waterways - the longest, the
Thames, is a little over 200 miles and few of them are _ except near the mouth
for anything but the smaller _
21 In the _ of the Thames, Mersey, Tyne, Clyde, Tay, Forth and Bristol Avon
are some of the greatest ports
The British Isles: test it out!
Fill in with appropriate words.
1 is a traditional term used to identify the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe consisting of two large islands - _ and _, and the many smaller adjacent islands
2 The Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland or _ and _ Ireland
3 Great Britain consists of England, _ and _ and doesn't include _
4 Britain is _small, but there is hardly a country in the world where such a variety of _ can be found in so small a _
5 There are wild _ mountains in the northern _ of Scotland - the home
of the deer and the _ - which are as _ as any in Norway
6 There are flat _ fields round the _ - a blaze of colour in spring, that would make you think you were in Holland
7 Within a few miles of the dirt and smoke of Manchester and Sheffield you can be in glorious _-covered moors
8 The North Sea and _ separate the British Isles _ European continent
9 Once the British Isles were part of the _ of Europe
10 The _ of the British Isles are washed by the _ and the North and Irish Seas
11 On the northwest the coasts are broken by high rocky _
12 This is especially noticeable in northwest Scotland, where you have long winding _, called " _", and a great many islands
13 In Scotland you have three _ regions There are, firstly, the _, and then there is the central plain or _
14 Finally there are the southern uplands, " _" with their gently rounded hills where the sheep _
15 Here there are more sheep to the _ mile than anywhere in the _
16 In England and Wales all the high land is _ the west and northwest
17 The southeastern plain reaches the West Coast only at one or two places - at the Bristol Channel and by the _ of the rivers Dee and Mersey
18 In the north you find the _, separating England from Scotland, the _ going down England like a _ and the Cumbrian Mountains in the _ , one of the loveliest (and the wettest) parts of England
19 The position of the mountains naturally determined the direction and length of the rivers, and the longest rivers, except _ and Clyde, flow into the _
20 The rivers in Britain are of no great _as waterways - the longest, the Thames, is a little over 200 miles and few of them are _ except near the mouth for anything but the smaller _
21 In the _ of the Thames, Mersey, Tyne, Clyde, Tay, Forth and Bristol Avon are some of the greatest ports