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Europe

Europe. Landforms & Resources. Peninsulas and Islands Europe is sometimes called a “peninsula of peninsulas” Scandinavian Peninsula (Norway & Sweden) Jutland Peninsula (Denmark & Germany) Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal) Italian Peninsula (Italy)

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Europe

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  1. Europe

  2. Landforms & Resources • Peninsulas and Islands Europe is sometimes called a “peninsula of peninsulas” • Scandinavian Peninsula (Norway & Sweden) • Jutland Peninsula (Denmark & Germany) • Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal) • Italian Peninsula (Italy) • Balkan Peninsula (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova).

  3. Scandinavian Peninsula

  4. Jutland Peninsula

  5. Iberian Peninsula

  6. Italian Peninsula

  7. Balkan Peninsula

  8. Islands

  9. Mountain Chains

  10. Rivers

  11. Natural Resources • Coal • Iron ore • Both are needed for an industrialized economy • 33% of Europe’s land is suitable for agriculture • Timber • Oil and Natural Gas

  12. Climate and Vegetation • Marine West Coast – Much of Europe (northern Spain across most of France, Germany and to western Poland, British Isles) • North Atlantic Drift – current of warm water flowing near Europe’s west coast. Warms westerly winds that elevate temperature and carry moisture.

  13. Climate • Humid Continental – Sweden, Finland, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary • Much of Europe has suffered from deforestation

  14. Climate • Mediterranean Climate (Southern Spain and France through Italy to Greece and other parts of the Balkan Peninsula) • Mistral winds – cold, dry wind from the north • Sirocco winds, hot steady south wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe

  15. Mediterranean Crops

  16. Human-Environment InteractionDutch Inventions • Dikes – earthen banks that hold back the sea • Polder – land in the Netherlands that is drained and dried • 40% of the Netherlands was once under sea • Seaworks – structures used to control the sea’s destructive impact on human life (include dikes and terpen) • Terpen – high earthen platforms that provide places to go for safety during floods and high tides

  17. Dutch Inventions • Zuider Zee – an arm of the North Sea and is now a fresh-water lake. Now called Ijsselmeer – Land around the lake was Drained, creating several Polders that added hundreds of square miles of land to the Netherlands

  18. Canals in Venice

  19. Venice and Netherlands Venice Canal, pilings City is sinking Swampy land, Flooding Netherlands Drained polders Created new land

  20. Deforestation – Centuries Old Problem

  21. Acid Rain • How does this photo convey the devastation caused by acid rain?

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