The document summarizes key differences in the economies and environments of Western and Eastern Europe. It notes that Western Europe focuses more on services and technology, while Eastern Europe was more industrial and agricultural, though it is modernizing. It also discusses transportation infrastructure, trade networks, resource management issues, and pollution challenges across Europe.

1. D: 12/17/12
A: European Economy Notes
S: Why is the economy of Europe so different
among each region?
H: Eastern Europe Constructed Response
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3. Europe: Economy
& Environment

4. I. Economic Activities
A. Heavy industry includes the production of
machinery, coal & iron
B. Countries without these minerals practice light
industry and manufacture high-end electronics.
C. Most workers in Western Europe participate in
service industries, especially tourism

5. I. Economic Activities
D. Farming in Western Europe is called Mixed
farming where several types of crops are
grown on one farm. In Eastern Europe they
grow food on farm cooperatives where
several farmers will grow one type of food to
lower the cost. Eastern Europe has just
recently begun using modern equipment to
farm on privately owned pieces of land.

6. II. Transportation and
Communications
A. Railways link most major European cities,
natural resources and industrial centers.
Even the Chunnel under the English Channel
links Paris to London.
B. Europe handles 65% of all world shipping
due to its ports, rivers and canals
C. All European television is linked in a system
called the European Broadcasting Network.

7. II. Transportation and
Communications
D. Western Europe is more technologically
advanced than Eastern Europe and only
recently people in Eastern Europe have
begun to use cell phones. Items like
computers and cable TV are also rare to find
in Eastern Europe but are all over Western
Europe.

8. III. Trade and Interdependence
A. In 1992 the European Union was made to
eliminate the restrictions on trading goods
among its members to make Europe more
competitive in the global market. Today the
EU has allowed for one currency called the
Euro, established a central bank and has
common foreign policy

9. III. Trade and Interdependence
B. After the fall of Communism in 1989 Eastern
Europe has struggled to set up a free market
economy and many have not been able to
join the EU due to their environmental
policies.

10. IV. Managing Resources
A. Dry farming where they find ways to
conserve soil moisture has to be used in
Southern Europe due to its dry warm climate.
B. The majority of the forests have been cut
down and cleared for farm land making the
soil erosion and many have started
reforestation

11. V. Human Impact
A. Before 1989 Eastern Europe did not have the
same environmental laws as Western Europe
and caused much industrial waste.
B. Burning chemicals and car exhaust help create
acid rain that withers forest and is also carried
to the ground by Europe’s freshwater systems.
These polluted waters are also harming the
farm land
C. In Southern Europe people use the rivers for
waste disposal

12. VI. Future Challenges
• Pollution in the Danube River is threatening
wildlife in the Black Sea and to clean it up it
will cost a lot of money
• By 2020 all EU members must have lower
emissions rate so many are trying to find
alternative energies.