The Geography

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The Geography Peoples of Europe
Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley
High School Chappaqua, NY
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Europes Latitude v. U.S.
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
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Satellite View of Europe
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3,800 square miles
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REGIONS
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Continents by Size (sq. km.)
Asia 44,579,000
Africa 30,065,000
North America 24,256,000
South America 17,819,000
Antarctica 13,209,000
Europe 9,938,000
Oceania (incl. Australia)   7,687,000
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Topography
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Europe A Peninsula of Peninsulas?
OR
A Peninsula of Asia?
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Europe An Asian Peninsula?
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Northern Peninsulas
Scandinavian Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
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Southern Peninsulas
CrimeanPeninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
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Peninsulas
Scandinavian Pen.
JutlandPen.
Crimean Pen.
Italian Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Iberian Pen.
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Bodies of Water
ArcticOcean
AtlanticOcean
North Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel
CaspianSea
Bay ofBiscay
BlackSea
DardanellesStrait
Adriatic Sea
AegeanSea
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
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The Mediterranean Sea
Strait of Gibraltar the Pillars of Hercules
2,400 miles long 1,000 miles wide Crossroads
of 3 Continents
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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.
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The Danube River
1770 miles
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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.
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The Volga River
Its the longest river in Europe --gt 2,300 miles.
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The Volga River

The river is so polluted that the
sturgeon catch has been decreased by 60.
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Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major
rivers?
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Capitals on the Rivers
Paris, right bank of the Seine
London on the Thames
Prague on the Vltava
Budapest on the Danube
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Capitals on the Rivers
Moscow on the Moscow River
Berlin on the Spree
Rome on the Tiber
Vienna on the Danube
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Whatstheanswer??
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Answer
They are Europes lifeline!
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MoutainsPeaks
Ural Mts.
Carpathian Mts.
Caucasus Mts.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Apennines Mts.
Mt. Vesuvius
Mt. Olympus
Mt. Etna
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Elevation
Urals
Caucasus
Pyrennes
Carpathians
Alps
Apennines
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The Alps
The Alps cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and
parts of Italy and France.
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Mt. Blanc in the Alps
Its the highest mountain in the Alps 15,771
feet.
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The Caucasus Mountains
The origin of the word Caucasian.
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Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (Count
Dracula)
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Ural Mountains The Great Divide
1500 miles
It divides the European and Asian sections of
Russia.
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The Ural Mountains
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Siberian Lowlands
Plains
Northern European Plain
Steppes
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The BENELUX Countries

• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Luxembourg

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Hollands Dikes
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Amsterdams Canals
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Plateaus
Meseta
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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.
BlackSea
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Balkan Pen.
Italian Pen.
Tagus R.
DardanellesStrait
Tiber R.
Apennines Mts.
Adriatic Sea
Iberian Pen.
Mt. Vesuvius
Ebro R.
Anatolean Pen.
AegeanSea
Mt. Olympus
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
Mt. Etna
Peloponnesian Pen.
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10,000 BCE Ice Age
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Norwegian Fjords
Glaciers cut deep valleys in the
ocean during the Ice Age.
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Earthquake Zones
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Reykjavik, IcelandThe Youngest Oldest Country

• Volcanoes
• Hot Springs
• Geysers

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Mediterranean Islands
The are generally rugged mountainous.
The Mediterranean Sea is so polluted that
it will take 1000 years to clean up.
Sardinia
Cyprus
Malta
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Mt. Etna, Sicily
an active volcano
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Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
Pompeii, 79 CE
Herculaneum, 79 CE
1944 eruption
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Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Russias 10 Time Zones
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Siberia --gt Permafrost
The average temperatures of January vary from 0
to -50C and in July from 1 to 25C.
150,000,000 population.
a former gulag Soviet prison camp
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Lake Baikal, Siberia
Its the oldest and deepest lake in the
world. 20 of the worlds total unfrozen
water supply
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
It was completed in 1905.
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
The main line runs 5,785 miles.
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Climate
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Europes Latitude v. US
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Climate
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Average Annual Precipitation
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Vegetation
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Europes Natural Regions
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The North European Plain
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The Northern European Plain --gt An Invasion Route
into Asia ( Vice Versa?)
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Steppes Soviet Breadbasket
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The Steppes
25 of the old Soviet Unions food
supply
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Germanys Black Forest
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Germanys Black Forest
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Tundra The Not-So-Barren LandBelow the Arctic
Circle
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Land Use
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Agricultural Activity
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Natural Resources
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RESOURCES
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MajorIndustrialResources
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Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area
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Geographic Problems
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MajorEnvironmentalDisasters PollutionProblems
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Acid Rain
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Demographics
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World Population by Continents
Asia 3,737,000,000
Africa 823,000,000
Europe 729,000,000
North America 486,000,000
South America 351,000,000
Oceania (incl. Australia)   31,000,000
Antarctica no permanent population
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MajorReligiousGroupsinEurope
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Population DensityPeople Per Square Mile
Belgium 336.82 Mexico 52.15
Japan 336.72 United States 29.77
India 336.62 World 14.42
United Kingdom 244.69 Norway 14.42
Italy 192.96 Canada 3.36
France 108.09 Russia 8.61
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PopulationDistribution
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PopulationGrowth
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Members of the Indo-European Language Family
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