Chapter 12: Southern Europe

A rare heavy-metal element essential to high-tech industry, mined along the Pyrenees

• tungsten
• iron
• copper
• gold

A place where an ecosystem has been killed or degraded by human activity

• ecosystem breaks
• pollution ring
• pollution hot-spot
• eco-degradation

An independently governed community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands

• states
• city-states
• micro countries
• district

The period of "rebirth" beginning in Italy during the 1300s

• Great Awakening
• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Renaissance

The landform of Southern Europe which includes Spain and Portugal

• Italian Peninsula
• Iberian Peninsula
• Floridian Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula

The relationship between two places in which one produces something the other needs, resulting in an exchange

• partnership
• similarity
• complementarity
• economic equality

A body of mountain ranges formed by fault-line activity

• massif
• lowlands
• plains
• ranges

The landform of Southern Europe which includes Italy

• Iberian peninsula
• Indian peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula
• Italian Peninsula

Which describes the population pattern of Southern Europe today?

• aging population with birthrates falling
• declining rapidly due to civil wars
• most populated region in the world
• death rates high and birth rates low

Which is an example of a government effort to protect the environment of Southern Europe?

• World Wildlife Fund
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Nature Conservancy
• European Environmental Agency