Chapter 12 sec 3 Geography

Italy produces what 5 things

cars, technical instruments, appliances, clothing and high quality goods.

special payments a government makes to support a particular group or industry.

subsidies

The ___ mountains are in northern Italy

Alps

Spain and Portugal share the Iberian peninsula with tiny _______, nestled in the Pyrenees Mountains

Andorra

the ______ mountains form a backbone through the country and into sicily.

Apennine

Spain's main language is what

Castilian spanish

Spain and Portugal are located on the ______

Iberian peninsula.

Capital of Spain

Madrid

Italy and its island of Sicily are on the ______

Mediterranean Sea

______ Italy has a leading industrial economy

Northern

what is the smallest country in the world

Vatican City

Spain's mild climate along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea provides ideal conditions for the growing of what 3 things

citrus fruits, olives, and grapes

Spain is a _______, since the late 1970s

democracy

Portugal has a ______ government, and its economy is growing stronger through subsides from the European union.

democratic

leaving the land unplanted every few years so that it can store moisture, allows wheat and vegetables to be grown in Spain, which has little rain. (done in Spain)

dry farming

Important crops in Portugal

grapes for wine and oak trees for cork

Southern Italy is poorer and less ________ than northern Italy

industrialized

Religion in Spain _____

roman Catholic

speak Italian and are ______

Roman Catholic