Map and Direction Skills
If you travel from Spain to France, in which direction would you generally travel?
What is northeast?
This sea is located directly south of Italy.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This country makes up most of the Iberian Peninsula and is located in southwestern Europe.
What is Spain?
This one word describes a thick haze made up of fog and chemicals from smoke and pollution.
What is smog?
This country is located in Central Europe, directly east of France.
What is Germany?
On a trip across Europe, you travel from France to the United Kingdom by crossing this body of water.
What is the English Channel?
This mountain range helps form the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This country is surrounded by water, making it a very valuable location for trade.
What is The United Kingdom?
A nuclear disaster in this country caused radiation to spread, contaminated nearby land, and led to serious health problems.
What is Ukraine?
This country is located in Eastern Europe, northwest of the Black Sea.
What is Ukraine?
You are traveling from Germany to Italy. Based on their locations in Europe, which general direction would you travel?
What is south?
This mountain range lies between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
Most of this country's population lives in its western region because the eastern part has harsher conditions and is farther from major population centers.
What is Russia?
This environmental problem occurs when pollutants from sources such as factories, vehicles, and coal-burning power plants mix with the atmosphere and later fall back to Earth.
What is acid rain?
People often settle near this German river because it supports transportation, trade, agriculture, and access to water.
What is the Rhine River?
Put these countries in order from west to east: Germany, Spain, Russia, France.
What is Spain → France → Germany → Russia?
This major European river flows through Germany and provides important opportunities for transportation and trade.
What is the Rhine River?
Russia has many natural resources, but this factor makes some of them difficult for people to reach and use.
What is Russia's harsh climate?
These three sources were major causes of acid rain in Germany: vehicle exhaust, factory pollution, and burning large amounts of this fuel source.
What is coal?
Germany's acid rain and the United Kingdom's air pollution have this major cause in common.
What are emissions from factories, power plants, and vehicles?
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This feature contains Spain and Portugal and is located in southwestern Europe.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The western side of this country is home to a mild climate, and the Rhine River that provides arable land and is an important route for trade and transportation.
What is Germany?
The United Kingdom has taken steps to reduce air pollution. Name one government action used to address the problem.
What is creating laws to reduce emissions or encouraging cleaner energy sources?
During the Great London Smog of 1952, the thick pollution made it difficult for people to see and move around the city. This demonstrates one major effect of what environmental problem?
What is air pollution?