Geography of Western Europe

1. Geography ofWestern Europe Ms. Willia’s Global Studies

2. Comparing Latitudes

3. Satellite View

4. REGIONS

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

6. Europe: An Asian Peninsula?

7. Northern Peninsulas Scandinavian Peninsula Jutland Peninsula

8. Southern Peninsulas CrimeanPeninsula Iberian Peninsula Italian Peninsula Balkan Peninsula AnatoleanPeninsula

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

10. The Mediterranean Sea Strait of Gibraltar & the “Pillars of Hercules” • 2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide • “Crossroads of 3 Continents” Caesarea on the Israeli coast

11. 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.

12. The Danube River 1770 miles

13. The Danube River • Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine.

14. The Volga River The longest river in Europe = 2,300 miles.

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

16. Elevation Urals Caucasus Pyrennes Carpathians Alps Apennines

17. The Alps Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and France.

18. The Caucasus Mountains • The origin of the word Caucasian.

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

20. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide” 1500 miles Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

21. The Ural Mountains

22. Siberian Lowlands Plains Northern European Plain Steppes

23. The BENELUX Countries • Belgium • Netherlands • Luxembourg

24. Amsterdam’s Canals

25. The Netherlands:The “Dagger” Pointing at the Heart of Britain!

26. ArcticOcean Siberian Lowlands Ural Mts. Scandinavian Pen. AtlanticOcean Jutland Pen. Volga R. North Sea Baltic Sea Completed Map 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 Tiber R. Apennines Mts. Iberian Pen. Adriatic Sea Mt. Vesuvius ^ Ebro R. Anatolean Pen. Mt. Olympus ^ AegeanSea TyrrhenianSea Strait ofGibraltar Mt. Etna ^ Peloponnesian Pen.

27. 10,000 BCE – Ice Age

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

29. Earthquake Zones

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

31. Mediterranean Islands • Generally rugged & mountainous. • Mediterranean Sea so polluted (will take 1000 years to clean up). Sardinia Cyprus Malta

32. Mt. Etna, Sicily • An active volcano

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

34. Climate

35. Europe’s Latitude v. US

36. Climate

37. Average Annual Precipitation

38. Vegetation

39. Europe’s Natural Regions

40. The North European Plain

41. The Northern European Plain --> An Invasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)

42. Germany’s Black Forest

43. Germany’s Black Forest

44. Land Use

45. Agricultural Activity

46. Natural Resources

47. RESOURCES

48. MajorIndustrialResources

49. Geographic Problems

50. MajorEnvironmentalDisasters& PollutionProblems