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The Geography & Peoples of Europe

The Geography & Peoples of Europe. Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY. Europe’s Latitude v. U.S. Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States. Satellite View of Europe. 3,800 square miles. R E G I O N S.

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The Geography & Peoples of Europe

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  1. The Geography & Peoples of Europe Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY

  2. Europe’s Latitude v. U.S.

  3. Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States

  4. Satellite View of Europe

  5. 3,800 square miles

  6. REGIONS

  7. Continents by Size (sq. km.)

  8. Topography The accurate and detailed drawing of a place and its surface features like hills, mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers.

  9. Europe: A Peninsula of Peninsulas? OR A Peninsula of Asia?

  10. Europe:An Asian Peninsula?

  11. Northern Peninsulas Scandinavian Peninsula Jutland Peninsula

  12. Southern Peninsulas CrimeanPeninsula Iberian Peninsula Italian Peninsula Balkan Peninsula

  13. Peninsulas Scandinavian Pen. JutlandPen. Crimean Pen. Italian Pen. Balkan Pen. Iberian Pen.

  14. Bodies of Water ArcticOcean AtlanticOcean North Sea Baltic Sea English Channel CaspianSea Bay ofBiscay BlackSea DardanellesStrait Adriatic Sea AegeanSea TyrrhenianSea Strait ofGibraltar Mediterranean Sea

  15. The Mediterranean Sea Strait of Gibraltar & the“Pillars of Hercules” 2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide “Crossroads of 3 Continents”

  16. Rivers Volga R. Don R. Thames R. Elbe R. Vistula R. Oder R. Rhine R. Dnieper R. Seine R. Loire R. Danube R. Po R. Tagus R. Tiber R. Ebro R.

  17. The Danube River 1770 miles

  18. The Danube River Where Buda & Pest Meet Biking along the Danube Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine.

  19. The Volga River It’s the longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.

  20. The Volga River The river is so polluted that the sturgeon catch has been decreased by 60%.

  21. Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major rivers?

  22. Capitals on the Rivers Paris, right bank of the Seine London on the Thames Prague on the Vltava Budapest on the Danube

  23. Capitals on the Rivers Moscow on the Moscow River Berlin on the Spree Rome on the Tiber Vienna on the Danube

  24. What’stheanswer??

  25. Answer: They are Europe’s lifeline!

  26. Moutains&Peaks Ural Mts. Carpathian Mts. Caucasus Mts. Alps Mts. Pyrennes Mts. Dinaric Alps Apennines Mts. Mt. Vesuvius ^ Mt. Olympus ^ Mt. Etna ^

  27. Elevation Urals Caucasus Pyrennes Carpathians Alps Apennines

  28. The Alps The Alps cover most of Switzerland, Austria, andparts of Italy and France.

  29. Mt. Blanc in the Alps It’s the highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet.

  30. The Caucasus Mountains The origin of the word Caucasian.

  31. Transylvaniain the Carpathian Mountains Home of VladTepeš, theDrakul(“Count Dracula”)

  32. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide” 1500 miles It divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

  33. The Ural Mountains

  34. Siberian Lowlands Plains Northern European Plain Steppes

  35. The BENELUX Countries • Belgium • Netherlands • Luxembourg

  36. Holland’s Dikes

  37. Amsterdam’s Canals

  38. Plateaus Meseta

  39. ArcticOcean Completed Map Siberian Lowlands Ural Mts. Scandinavian Pen. AtlanticOcean Jutland Pen. Volga R. North Sea Baltic Sea Don R. Northern European Plain Thames R. Elbe R. Vistula R. English Channel Oder R. Rhine R. Steppes Dnieper R. Seine R. Carpathian Mts. CaspianSea Loire R. Caucasus Mts. Bay ofBiscay Alps Mts. Crimean Pen. Danube R. Po R. Pyrennes Mts. Italian Pen. Dinaric Alps Balkan Pen. BlackSea Tagus R. DardanellesStrait Apennines Mts. Tiber R. Iberian Pen. Adriatic Sea Mt. Vesuvius ^ Ebro R. Anatolean Pen. Mt. Olympus ^ AegeanSea TyrrhenianSea Strait ofGibraltar Mt. Etna ^ Peloponnesian Pen.

  40. 10,000 BCE – Ice Age

  41. Norwegian Fjords Glaciers cut deep valleys in the ocean during the Ice Age.

  42. Earthquake Zones

  43. Reykjavik, Iceland:“The Youngest Oldest Country” • Volcanoes • Hot Springs • Geysers

  44. Mediterranean Islands The are generally rugged & mountainous. The Mediterranean Sea is so pollutedthat it will take 1000 years to clean up. Sardinia Cyprus Malta

  45. Mt. Etna, Sicily an active volcano

  46. Mt. Vesuvius, Italy Pompeii, 79 CE Herculaneum, 79 CE 1944 eruption

  47. Eastern Europe

  48. Eastern Europe

  49. Russia’s 10Time Zones

  50. Siberia --> Permafrost The average temperatures of January vary from 0 to -50°C and in July from 1 to 25°C. 150,000,000 population. a former “gulag” Soviet prison camp

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