Italy, Spain, and Portugal

Question 1

Peninsulas:

Answer 1

Peloponnesus, Italy, Greece, Iberian

Question 2

Mountains:

Answer 2

Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Cantabrian

Question 3

Rivers:

Answer 3

Ebro, Tagus, Po, Guadalquivir, Douro, Tiber

Question 4

Islands:

Answer 4

Sardinia, Balearic, Sicily, Crete

Question 5

What does “Mediterranean” mean in Latin?

Answer 5

Middle of the land

Question 6

What are important ports on the Mediterranean?

Answer 6

Barcelona, Genoa, Athens, Naples, Piraeus, Valencia

Question 7

Southern Europe is also known as?

Answer 7

Mediterranean Europe

Question 8

What links the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 8

The Strait of Gibraltar

Question 9

How many peninsulas make up Southern Europe?

Answer 9

3

Question 10

What is the largest river in Italy?

Answer 10

Ebro

Question 11

Why is the largest island in Greece?

Answer 11

Sardinia

Question 12

Italy’s peninsula is shaped like a?

Answer 12

Boot

Question 13

What is the climate of much of Southern Europe?

Answer 13

Hot and arid

Question 14

The siroccos that blow over Italy originate from?

Answer 14

North Africa

Question 15

What country mines bauxite, chromium, lead, and zinc?

Answer 15

Greece

Question 16

Mosaics:

Answer 16

Pictures created from tiny pieces of colored stone that were occupied throughout Europe

Question 17

The majority of Greeks are?

Answer 17

Eastern Orthodox Christian