Topography
This mountain range forms a natural border between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees?
This region is known as the economic core of Europe, stretching from the UK to Northern Italy.
What is the Blue Banana?
Agriculture belongs to this economic sector.
What is the primary sector?
The decline of industry in a region is often followed by the rise of this sector.
What is the tertiary (service) sector?
This term describes the shift from one economic sector to another.
What is structural change?
This country includes the highest peak in the Alps, Mont Blanc.
What is France?
This type of map helps visualize regional economic differences.
What are thematic maps?
A major agricultural issue is overproduction, which results in significant price drops, especially of this dairy product.
What is milk?
The Ruhr area was historically known for this type of industry.
What is coal and steel?
This city near Essen is home to the CentrO shopping and entertainment complex.
What is Oberhausen?
The longest river in Europe that flows through Russia.
What is the Volga?
This is one indicator used to show regional disparities.
What is unemployment rate / GDP per capita / infrastructure (any one)?
This is one challenge modern EU agriculture is facing.
What is loss of family-run farms/ soil degradation/ lack of staff/ climate-related crop loss/ price debates...
The decline of coal mining in the Ruhr area is an example of this economic process.
What is deindustrialization?
After the coal crisis, many mines were turned into cultural or leisure centers in this area.
What is the Rhur area/ Rhine-Rhur area?
This sea lies between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula.
What is the Adriatic Sea?
These areas are typically better off economically and are the opposite of rural areas.
What are metropolitan areas/ urban areas?
This is the opposite of organic farming.
What is conventional farming/ subsistence farming?
This industrial region in northern France shares a similar history of coal and steel decline as the Ruhrgebiet.
What is Nord-Pas-de-Calais (or Lorraine)?
Around one-third of the EU budget goes to this policy.
What is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?
This peninsula includes countries like Portugal and Spain.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
These are the two extensions of the Blue Banana that cover areas that developed later than the core area.
What are the yellow banana and the sunbelt?
This structural shift refers to agriculture becoming more efficient and mechanized.
What is intensified farming/ industrialization of agriculture?
These are two reasons why structural change is often difficult to implement in former industrial regions.
What are: High costs of redevelopment, lack of skilled workers for new industries, environmental contamination, or resistance from local communities. (Any two)
These two countries are the most agrarian-oriented in the EU.
What are Romania and Bulgaria?