Eastern & Southern Europe

Land mass that extends into the Mediterranean Sea

• Dinaric Mountains

• Balkan Peninsula

• Northern European Plain

What are the two main physical features of Southern Europe

• Mountains and Seas

• Coal and Oil

• Mt. Rushmore and the Grand Canyon

• Water

Body of water in the eastern part of the region

• Black Sea

• Danube River

• Baltic Sea

the location where pollution due to increased human activity causes degradation and even death of an ecosystem

• river

• pollution hot spot

• by factories

The type of vegetation found in the northern part of the region (Baltic Coast)

• grassy plains

• shrubs

• forests

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 largest plain that stretches across the region

• Northern European Plain

• Baltic Coast

• Balkan Peninsula

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

• True

• False

Body of water in the far north of the region

• Baltic Sea

• Black Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

The area that has a Mediterranean climate

• Interior Plains

• Baltic Coast

• Balkan Coast