This type of resource is human-made, and it allows you to develop your other resources well.
What is a capital resource?
100
On this peninsula, heavy forest cover has led people to specialize in timber and other wood products.
What is the Scandinavian peninsula?
100
These long, deep valleys carved by glaciers are often filled with water, and they helped Scandinavian traders sail out to the sea.
What are fjords?
100
This large country, no longer on the map, dominated the governments and economies of eastern Europe for much of the 20th century.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
This warm-water current makes western Europe warmer and wetter than it would be otherwise -- and British sheep appreciate the green pastures it gives them!
What is North Atlantic Drift?
200
Roads, bridges, railroads, airports, stores, and warehouses are all examples of this particular kind of capital resource.
What is infrastructure?
200
This fertile, flat area stretches from the North Sea coast to the Baltic Sea coast -- and helps feed Europe.
What is the North European Plain?
200
Because Europe has so many of these land masses that extend into big bodies of water, it had a long seacoast that promoted trade.
What are peninsulas?
200
This is a term for a certain kind of command economy, and eastern Europe had a lot of governments like this in the period 1948-1990.
What is communist?
200
This is a measure of north-south difference, and Europe covers such a wide range of these that many, many different kinds of crops can grow there.
What is latitude?
300
The Netherlands, a low-elevation country, developed this invention, which is an area of farmland reclaimed from the sea.
What is a polder?
300
This is the only kind of farming you'll associate with high Alps landscapes -- and it's led to some delicious specialty products.
What is dairy farming?
300
This long river carries goods all the way from its headwaters in the Alps to its mouth on the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
300
This country had a major nuclear facility which developed a problem in the 1980s. A BIG problem.
What is the Ukraine?
300
These middle-latitude prevailing winds bring warm air and moisture to the North European Plain.
What are westerleys?
400
This engineering marvel crossed the English Channel, connecting France with England.
What is the Chunnel?
400
If you live on the Scandinavian peninsula, you trade heavily with THIS farming peninsula.
What is Jutland?
400
Sail down the Thames and into the North Sea, and you'll see offshore platforms where these resources are harvested.
What are oil and natural gas?
400
This country was divided into two during the time period between World War II and 1990, and is now re- united on our maps.
What is Germany?
400
The Alps mountains are so cold in part because they have such high ________.
What is elevation?
500
If you do business in Switzerland and receive a loan to develop a new part of your business, you've received some of this.
What is investment capital?
500
This southern-European climate is great for citrus fruit, olives, and grapes, with its long, warm summers and short winters.
What is Mediterranean climate?
500
To get from the Mediterranean to the Aegean and then to the Black Sea, you go through these two straits -- two great points for Europeans to control trade!
What is the Dardanelles and the Bosporus?
500
This nuclear power plant experienced a devastating meltdown and explosion, probably due to faulty construction and maintenance.
What is Chernobyl?
500
This is the name of a climate pattern that has rainfall year round, almost every day -- it's common in northwestern Europe.