Southern European Quiz

Southern Europe’s climate is influenced heavily by the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

• True

• False

Southern Europe is composed of three major mountainous peninsulas: the Iberian, the Balkan, and the Italian

• True

• False

As manufacturing activity declined across Southern Europe over the past 30 years, the ________ sector has increased steadily

• Agriculture

• Service Sector

Greeks in ancient Athens introduced the concept of ________, which has influenced society, politics, and culture around the world.

• Democracy

• Mythology

• Communism

Which mountain range runs along the spine of the Italian Peninsula?

• Apennines

• Alps

• Pyrennes

In recent decades, political and economic instability in some nations of Southern Europe was the result of

• the housing crisis and natural disasters

• industrial decline and EU mismanagement

• high national debt and unemployment

The major mountain chains of Southern Europe include the

• Apennines, Adriatic,

  and Ionian.

• Alps, Pyrenees, and Apennines

• Tiber, Po, and Mediterranean

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state

• City-State

• Territory

French word translating to rebirth. It symbolized the beginning of a new era of art, rebirthing the classical models of the Ancient Greek periods while using modern techniques.

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Dark Ages

a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment

• sand

• soil

• loess