18180 the british isles test

The British Isles: test it out!

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.

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.