Water and Industry
These three benefits: transportation, fresh water and fertile land explain why major European cities developed here.
What are Rivers?
This specific climate is characterized by warm weather and a long growing season.
What is Mediterranean?
This specific region of Europe has the highest population density, largely due to its access to trade routes and ports.
What is Western Europe?
This term describes traditions that are shaped by centuries of shared history.
What is cultural heritage?
This organization was created specifically to promote economic and political cooperation among European nations
What is the European Union (EU)?
This famous city-river pair features the capital of the United Kingdom.
What is London and the Thames?
These two specific crops are the most common agricultural products associated with Mediterranean climates.
What are olives and grapes?
Job opportunities are considered this type of migration factor because they attract people to a new location.
What is a pull factor?
These two factors are responsible for creating the isolated pockets where Europe’s many different languages developed.
What are mountains and history?
This is the primary factor that explains the population pattern where people cluster near coastal cities and ports.
What is access to trade routes?
Early Industrial growth in the United Kingdom and Germany was primarily fueled by this natural resource.
What is coal?
Compared to Northern Europe, Southern Europe generally has these two climate advantages.
What are warmer climates and longer growing seasons?
Many European countries rely on immigration for this specific demographic reason
What is to replace aging populations?
In the modern world, cultural diffusion in Europe is most heavily influenced by these two things.
What are travel and technology?
This country is part of Northern Europe and has a much lower population density than Western Europe.
What is Norway (or Sweden/Finland)?
In modern Europe, rivers and seas remain vital for these three reasons.
What is trade, transportation and energy?
This European country is a prime example of a Mediterranean climate where olives and grapes flourish.
What is Spain?
War, famine, and natural disasters are examples of this type of migration factor.
What are push factors?
This is the name for a force that pulls people together, such as shared economic goals.
What is a centripetal force?
Shared economic goals are a prime example of this type of force within the European Union
What is a centripetal force?
Because Europe has limited natural resources, its global interaction has historically been defined by an increased dependence on these
What are imports and global trade?
Which climate-vegetation pattern is correct for Italy? Tundra, Mediterranean or Boreal Forest?
This is the best visual tool for a geographer to use when analyzing the movement of refugees into Europe.
What is a political boundary map with movement arrows?
Ethnic conflict and regional independence movements are examples of this type of force that pulls people apart.
What is a centrifugal force?
This is the reason Western Europe is more crowded than Northern Scandinavia.
What is a milder climate and better access to trade?