Physical Map Features
This body of water borders Europe, Africa, and southwestern Asia. Popular with tourists because of its beautiful beaches and warm climate it is also an important trade route for southern Europe, Africa, and southwestern Asia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the largest country in the world.
What is Russia?
This destroys trees in Germany's forests.
What is acid rain?
When countries exchange goods or services with each other.
What is international trade?
The value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year.
GDP
This narrow body of water between Great Britain and France separates the United Kingdom from mainland Europe.
What is the English Channel?
A country in southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Pyrenees Mountains form its border between France and the Mediterranean Sea borders its southern coast.
What is Spain?
These two factors are a major contribution to the environmental problems which exist in the United Kingdom.
What is burning fossil fuels and car emissions?
Taxes on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
Things found in nature that can be used by people.
This physical feature forms a natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees mountains?
England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland make up this nation. It is separated from mainland Europe by the English Channel.
What is the United Kingdom?
Many people developed cancer or died because of exposure to radiation from this event in Ukraine in 1986.
What is the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl?
A money system that allows one country to trade with another.
What is a currency exchange system?
The amount of wealth and material comfort available to a person or country.
What is standard of living?
The second longest river in Europe it runs across ten countries including Ukraine.
What is the Danube river?
Located in Eastern Europe it is the second largest country in Europe and is bordered by the Black Sea to the south. It was the site of a nuclear disaster in 1986.
What is Ukraine?
People who start and own private businesses. They are important in an economy because they produce profits and create jobs leading to economic growth.
Who are entrepreneurs?
A stop or ban on trade from one country.
What is an embargo?
Items used to produce things. Examples include factories, machinery, and technology.
What is capital goods?
Beginning in the Alps and running through Germany, this body of water is an important trade route.
What is the Rhine river?
The country that is the sixth largest country in Europe with a large variety of natural resources. It is located east of the United Kingdom, east of Spain, and north of Italy.
What is Germany?
A limit on imported goods.
What is a quota?
This helps a country produce a good or service more efficiently and cheaply.
What is specialization?
Investments in the health, education, and training of workers.
What is human capital?