Europe’s Latitude v. US Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States
1 Satellite View of Europe 3,800 square miles R E G I O N S
2 Continents by Size (sq. km.) Europe: A Peninsula Asia 44,579,000
Africa 30,065,000 of Peninsulas?
North America 24,256,000 South America 17,819,000 OR Antarctica 13,209,000
Europe 9,938,000 Oceania (incl. 7,687,000 A Peninsula of Asia? Australia)
3 Europe: An Asian Peninsula? Northern Peninsulas Southern Peninsulas
Scandinavian Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
Crimean Peninsula Iberian Italian Peninsula Peninsula Balkan Peninsula Anatolean Peninsula
4 Arctic B Ocean o P d e i n What’s e Jutland s Atlantic i Pen. Ocean North Baltic n the Sea Sea s of u Caspian answer Bay of Sea l Crimean Pen. Biscay W a Italian Pen. Balkan Pen. Black a Dardanelles Sea s Iberian Pen. ?? Strait Anatolean Pen. t Strait of Tyrrhenian Aegean Gibraltar Sea Sea Peloponnesian e Pen. r Mediterranean Sea
5 The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum The Danube River
R i v Strait of Gibraltar Thames R. & the “Pillars of e Hercules” r s Po R. Tagus R.
Ebro R. 2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide Caesarea on the “Crossroads of 3 Continents” Israeli coast
6 The Danube River The Volga River The Volga River
Where Buda Biking & Pest Meet Along the The river is so Danube polluted that the sturgeon catch has Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria, been decreased by Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and 60%. Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine. The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
7 Capitals on the Rivers (1) Capitals on the Rivers (2) Why are most of the capitals London on the Thames Paris, right bank of the Seine Moscow on the Moscow River Berlin on the Spree of Europe on major rivers??
Prague on the Vltava Budapest on the Danube Rome on the Tiber Vienna on the Danube
8 M o u t What’s Answer: a i n the s They are & answer Caucasus Mts. Alps Mts. Europe’s lifeline! P e ?? a Mt. Vesuvius ^ Mt. Olympus ^ k Mt. Etna ^ s
9 Elevation The Alps Mt. Blanc in the Alps
Urals
Caucasus
Pyrennes
Carpathians Alps Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and Apennines parts of Italy and France. Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet
10 The Caucasus Mountains Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
The origin of the word Caucasian. Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (“Count Dracula”) Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.
11 The Ural Mountains The BENELUX Countries
P * Belgium l a i * Netherlands n s * Luxembourg
12 Holland’s Dikes Amsterdam’s Canals The Netherlands:
The “Dagger” Pointing at the Heart of Britain!
13 Arctic C Ocean o 10,000 BCE – Ice Age m P p l l Atlantic Jutland a Ocean North Pen. Baltic e Sea Sea
t t Thames R. e e Caspian a d Bay of Caucasus Mts.Sea Biscay Alps Mts. Crimean Pen. u Po R. Tagus R. Italian Pen. Balkan Pen. Black s Dardanelles Sea Meseta Iberian Pen. Strait M Mt. Vesuvius ^ Ebro R. Anatolean Pen. a Strait of TyrrhenianMt. Olympus ^ Aegean Gibraltar Sea Sea Mt. Etna ^ Peloponnesian p Pen.
14 Norwegian Fjords Earthquake Zones Reykjavik, Iceland: “The Youngest Oldest Country”
Glaciers cut deep Volcanoes valleys in Hot Springs the ocean during the Geysers Ice Age.
15 Mediterranean Islands Mt. Etna, Sicily Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
Generally rugged Pompeii, & mountainous. Sardinia Herculaneum, 79 CE 79 CE Mediterranean Sea so polluted (will take 1000 years to clean up). Cyprus
An active volcano Malta 1944 eruption
16 Eastern Europe Russia’s 10 Time Zones
17 Siberia --> Permafrost Lake Baikal, Siberia Trans-Siberian Railroad
Average temperatures of January The oldest and deepest vary from 0 to -50°C, and in July from 1 to 25°C lake in the world.
20% of the world’s total A former “gulag” 150,000,000 population. Soviet prison camp. unfrozen water supply. Completed in 1905.
18 Trans-Siberian Railroad Europe’s Latitude v. US
The main line runs 5,785 miles.
19 Average Annual Precipitation Climate
20 Europe’s Natural Regions The North European Plain The Northern European Plain --> An Invasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)
21 Steppes: “Soviet” Breadbasket The Steppes Major Regional Divisions of the Former U. S. S. R.
25% of the old Soviet Union’s food supply. Chernozen Soil
22 Germany’s Black Forest Germany’s Black Forest Tundra: The Not-So-Barren Land Below the Arctic Circle
23 L Agricultural Activity a n d
U s e
24 Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area R E S O Major U Industrial R Resources C E S
25 Acid Rain
Major Environmental Disasters & Pollution Problems
26 World Population by Continents Population Density [People Per Square Mile] Asia 3,737,000,000
Africa 823,000,000 Belgium 336.82 Mexico 52.15 United Japan 336.72 29.77 Europe 729,000,000 States
North America 486,000,000 India 336.62 World 14.42
United South America 351,000,000 244.69 Norway 14.42 Kingdom Oceania (incl. 31,000,000 Australia) Italy 192.96 Canada 3.36 no permanent Antarctica France 108.09 Russia 8.61 population
27 Members of the Indo-European Language Family
Population Population Growth Distribution
28 Major Religious Groups in Europe
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