| A | B |
| Greece | Athens capital |
| Italy | Rome capital |
| Portugal | Lisbon capital |
| Spain | Madrid capital |
| Italy | borders Adriatic Sea |
| Most of southern Europe | between 45'N and 35'N latitudes |
| Southern Europe | borders on the Mediterranean Sea |
| Straight | a narrow passage of water between tow larger bodies of water |
| Microstate | a very small country |
| Regionalism | feeling more loyal to one part of a country than to the whole country |
| Unemployment | the condition of people not being able to find jobs |
| San Marino | microstate |
| Italian peninsula | shaped like a boot |
| Architecture | art of designing and building places where humans live,work, worship and do business |
| Ionic Sea | separates Italy from Greece |
| Southern Europe | has many mountain ranges |
| Pyrenees Mountains | separate Spain from France and western Europe |
| Dolomites or Italian Alps | borders northern Italy, Switzerland and Austria |
| Two large island in the Mediterranean | Sicily and Sardinia |
| Rio Douro River | in Portugal |
| The Ebro and the Guadalquivir Rivers | in Spain |
| The Po River | in Italy |
| The Achelous River | longest in Greece, 137 miles |
| Souther Europe Lakes | Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, Lake Garda |
| Most people in Spain, Portugal and Italy | are catholic |
| Southern Spain | influenced by Arab rule |
| Most Southern Europeans | are Christians |
| Vatican City | located in Rome |
| Most urbanized and richest country | Italy |
| Basque people | want to separate from Spain |
| Spain's key economic industries | automobiles and berages |
| Portugal's key economic industries | textiles, footwear and papaer |
| Italy's key economic industries | tourism, iron and steel |
| Greece's key economic industries | food and tobacco processing |
| The poorest country in Europe | Greece |
| Produces cork | Portugal |
| Italy mines | marble |
| Venice | has water streets |
| Siesta | Spanish tradition of taking a two to three hour lunch break each day |
| Galileo | gave us the law of freely falling bodies |
| First scientist to use a large telescope to see the planets | Galileo |