1. Physical Geography 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

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

36. Netherlands

38. Amsterdam’s Canals

39. Plateaus Meseta

40. 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.

41. 10,000 BCE – Ice Age

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

43. Earthquake Zones

45. Hot Springs

47. Mt. Etna, Sicily an active volcano

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