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EUROPE

EUROPE . ENVRIONMENT AND SOCIETY. ICELAND. Greenland is Ice, but Iceland is not green Warm ocean currents make the coastal areas habitable, however the volcanic interior makes most of Iceland uninhabitable Most homes use geothermal heating . THE CHUNNEL.

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EUROPE

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  1. EUROPE ENVRIONMENT AND SOCIETY

  2. ICELAND • Greenland is Ice, but Iceland is not green • Warm ocean currents make the coastal areas habitable, however the volcanic interior makes most of Iceland uninhabitable • Most homes use geothermal heating

  3. THE CHUNNEL • Links British Isles with France/Europe mainland • Trains pass under the English Channel • Cost 4.65 Billion Euros in 1994 • To ride one way will cost from $62 (coach) to $412 (first class)

  4. Benelux, The Netherlands • Flooding is a particular problem in the Netherlands because it is below sea level • To regain farmland, the Dutch have created polders • Windmills pump water out of sealed-off bodies of water until it becomes land. After about seven year it will be ready for farming After about seven years the land is ready for farming

  5. France • Europe has little oil thus oil is its largest import • Most countries use hydro electricity if they have suitable rivers • France uses nuclear power

  6. France Wine Country French Riviera French Alps

  7. IBERIAN PENINSULA • Spain and Portugal • Only 8 miles separate Morocco, Africa from the Iberian Peninsula at the Strait of Gibraltar • Pyrenees Mountains and the microstate Andorra separates it from France Africa What is this called?

  8. Pyrenees Andorra Africa Spain

  9. ITALY When bad goes good Tower of Pisa Venice Italy

  10. RUSSIA • Major exports are Caviar and Vodka • Sturgeon eggs produce caviar • $70 to $100 an ounce • Vodka is the national drink made from ?

  11. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD • Longest rail system in the world • Nearly 6,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok • Enables Russia to access Siberia’s natural resources as well as trade with China • Connects to the east coast and Pacific Ocean shipping

  12. THE BERLIN WALL CONSTRUCTION 1961 Celebration of East Berlin Wall being torn down Nov. 9, 1989 WHY WAS THE WALL BUILT?

  13. USSR MAP

  14. ARAL SEA Shrinking Aral Sea • Aral Sea is also a lake • Aral Sea is shrinking – WHY • Environmental and climatic changes • Diversion of water from the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers • Poor management of resources has damaged the region’s environment

  15. Chernobyl, UKRAINE CHERNOBYL

  16. Chernobyl April 1986, a reactor exploded and Chernobyl, became the greatest industrial disaster in the history of humankind One hundred times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  17. Chernobyl • About 5.5 million people, including more than one million children, continue to live in the contaminated zones • The exclusion zone - is an area 50 miles wide where nobody is allowed to enter

  18. Chernobyl "There is no hope that the exclusion zone can be settled again in the foreseeable future."

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