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Central Europe
Lesson 22:
Natural Resources and Economy
of Central Europe
Use theCentral Europe Products and Industries chart and the Economic Fact Sheet to complete the
Activities. Look for
boldfaced
words in your chart as clues of a country’s major cash crops, exports,
and industries.
Central Europe Products and Industries
IndustryTypes
Country
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Netherlands
agricultural products-cheese,
petroleum processing – natural
tourism
-historic
butter, meat products;
gas and crude oil; chemicals,
Amsterdam
flower bulbs and cut flowers
motor vehicles, aircraft,
electronics,
diamond cutting
Belgium
livestock , forestry
raremetals, glass, machinery,
banking
, tourism
steel, plastics, petroleum refining,
diamond trading
, chocolate
Luxembourg
iron ore, beef, dairy cattle,
tires, chemicals, metals
international
grapes
banking
,
tourism
Germany
agricultural products –milk,
European leader
in
tourism,
banking
cheese, butter, meat, grapes/
manufactured goods, iron/steel,
wine, beer, timber, fishing,
coal
vehicles, electronics, machinery
Switzerland
timber, Swiss cheese, chocolate chemicals, heavymachinery,
tourism, banking
clocks, watches
Austria
timber, grapes/wine, grains,
iron/steel, aluminum, chemicals,
tourism, skiing
vegetables, fruit, livestock; coal,
plastics, electronics, optical
oil, graphite, quartz, salt, clay
instruments
Liechtenstein
agriculture-livestock, dairy
precision instruments, electronics,
tourism, banking
farming,
postage stamps
Poland
small farming
-potatoes, grains,
vehicles, machinery, electronics,
tourism
livestock, vegetables;
coal
,
small scale consumer products
sulfur, zinc, lead, copper
CzechRepublic
large cooperative/state farms
iron/steel working, vehicles,
tourism
grain, sugar beets, livestock, coal, plastics, textiles;
Bohemian
iron ore
glass and beer
Slovakia
timber
, potatoes, sugar beets,
Bratislava
–center of industry,
tourism is in
grains, livestock;
Mining
- iron,
metal work, paper,
development
copper, lead, zinc
vehicles, machinery
Hungary
grains, sunflowers, paprika,
metal making, metal work,
tourism
vegetables, fruits, figs, timber
chemicals, vehicles, textiles,
grapes/wine, livestock,
Budapest
is the center of
dairy/poultry products; coal
industry and tourism
