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Some definitions of southern Europe, also known as Mediterranean Europe, include the countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, southern France and Greece. Other definitions sometimes include the Balkan countries of southeast Europe, which are geographically in the southern part of Europe, but which have different historical, political, economic, and cultural backgrounds.

Different methods can be used to define southern Europe, including its political, economic, and cultural attributes. Southern Europe can also be defined by its natural features its geography, climate, and flora.

Southern Europe's most emblematic climate is that of the Mediterranean climate, which has become a typically known characteristic of the area. The Mediterranean climate covers much of Portugal, Spain, Southeast France, Italy, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Greece, the Western and Southern coastal regions of Turkey as well as the Mediterranean islands. Those areas of Mediterranean climate present similar vegetations and landscapes throughout, including dry hills, small plains, pine forests and olive trees.

1. Describe vegetation of the Mediterranean
2. What type of forests?
3. What does the Iberian peninsula consist of?
4. What other peninsula is part of the region?
5. Where are the Balkans located?
6. Which lands have the Mediterranean climate?
7. And?
8. And?
9. Does Turkey have the same climate?
10. What parts?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. dry hills
2. pine
3. Spain and Portugal
4. the Italian peninsula
5. in the southern part of Europe
6. Greece
7. Italy
8. much of Portugal
9. Yes
10. the Western and Southern coastal regions

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The Pleistocene (, often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology.

The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary Period or sixth epoch of the Cenozoic Era. In the ICS timescale, the Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian. All of these stages were defined in southern Europe. In addition to this international subdivision, various regional subdivisions are often used.

Before a change finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the time boundary between the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being at 1.806 million years Before Present (BP), as opposed to the currently accepted 2.588 million years BP: publications from the preceding years may use either definition of the period.

Charles Lyell introduced the term "pleistocene" in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today. This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. He constructed the name "Pleistocene" ("Most New" or "Newest") from the Greek , "pleistos", "most", and , "kainos" (latinized as "cnus"), "new"; this contrasting with the immediately preceding Pliocene ("More New" or "Newer", from , "pleion", "more", and "kainos"; usual spelling: Pliocene), and the immediately subsequent Holocene ("wholly new" or "entirely new", from , "holos", "whole", and "kainos") epoch, which extends to the present time.

1. What time period is this article about?
2. What is it more commonly called?
3. How long ago did it start?
4. And when did it end?
5. What was the time before that called?
6. And the time period after?
7. How many stages does the Pleistocene have?
8. Is Ionian one of them?
9. In what location did these names come from?
10. What organization decided on the time boundary between it and Pliocene?
11. When did they do that?
12. When was the word first coined?
13. By whom?
14. To describe rock where?
15. What does Pleistocene mean literally?
16. And Pliocene?
17. And Holocene?
18. Which epoch are we in how?
19. Have there been more glaciations since the Ice Age?
20. What are the names of the four stages?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. The Pleistocene.
2. The Ice Age.
3. 2,588,000 years ago.
4. 11,700 years ago.
5. The Pliocene.
6. Holocene.
7. Four .
8. Yes.
9. Southern Europe.
10. The International Union of Geological Sciences.
11. 2009.
12. 1839.
13. Charles Lyell.
14. Sicily.
15. "Most New."
16. "More New."
17. "Wholly new."
18. Holocene.
19. No.
20. Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian.

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(CNN) -- Robert Zimmerman Jr., the brother of the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, apologized for his controversial and offensive tweets.

In one, Zimmerman juxtaposed a photograph of Martin with one of 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins, one of two teenagers charged with killing a baby in Georgia.

Both Elkins and Martin appear to be flipping off the camera.

"A picture speaks a thousand words. Any questions?" the tweet reads.

In another tweet, Zimmerman writes: "Lib media shld ask if what these2 black teens did 2 a woman&baby is the reason ppl think blacks mightB risky."

Speaking on CNN's Piers Morgan Live on Wednesday night, he apologized for the messages, saying they weren't the "right thing to do."

"I realize those were controversial and offensive and I did publicly apologize for them," he said. "I'm a human being. I'm being upfront about what I did. I made a mistake ... Unfortunately (it) may not have helped George."

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His brother, George Zimmerman, has been charged with second-degree murder. Zimmerman acknowledged shooting Martin but said it was in self-defense. Attorneys for Martin's family have accused Zimmerman of racially profiling Martin and shooting him "in cold blood."

Robert Zimmerman Jr. said he was trying to make a larger point in his tweets about the "media and their honesty in portraying the person who encountered my brother February 26, 2012.

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"We've been led to believe that it's a junior-high-school-aged person because of the pictures," he said, referring to Martin.

1. How old was Trayvon Martin?
2. What happened to him?
3. Did he survive?
4. Who apologized for his tweets?
5. Who is he related to?
6. What are Elkins and Martin doing?
7. What is the charge in the case?
8. What shoe did the tweeter appear on?
9. What is George Zimmerman charged with?
10. Did he admit he had done it?
11. Did he say it was self defense?
12. When did the shooting occur?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. 17.
2. He was shot.
3. No.
4. Robert Zimmerman Jr.
5. George Zimmerman.
6. Flipping off the camera.
7. Killing a baby.
8. Piers Morgan Live.
9. Second-degree murder.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
12. 2012.