FA Geography Chapter 12: Southern Europe

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

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tungsten

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

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pollution hot-spot

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

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city-states

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

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Renaissance

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The landform of Southern Europe which includes Spain and Portugal

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Iberian Peninsula

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

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complementarity

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A body of mountain ranges formed by fault-line activity

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massif

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The landform of Southern Europe which includes Italy

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Italian Peninsula

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Which describes the population pattern of Southern Europe today?

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aging population with birthrates falling

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Which is an example of a government effort to protect the environment of Southern Europe? Options: World Wildlife Fund, Forest Stewardship Council, Nature Conservancy, European Environmental Agency

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European Environmental Agency