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Map Challenge Cards S t u d E n t H a n d o u t Map Challenge Cards Cut out these cards, shuffle, and place face down in a pile in front of the Turner. Physical Features Baltic Sea Northern European Plain Iberian Peninsula (57˚N, 20˚E) (55˚N, 25˚E) (40˚N, 5˚W) Alps Danube River Apennines (46˚N, 10˚E) (45˚N, 20˚E) (43˚N, 13˚E) Scandinavia Black Sea Mediterranean Sea (65˚N, 15˚E) (43˚N, 35˚E) (40˚N, 5˚E) Central Siberian Plateau Kamchatka Peninsula Lake Baikal (65˚N, 100˚E) (55˚N, 160E˚) (53˚N, 108˚E) Ob River Caucasus Mountains Volga River (62˚N, 65˚E) (43˚N, 45˚E) (50˚N, 45˚E) Countries Austria Croatia Finland (48˚N, 15˚E) (45˚N, 15˚E) (65˚N, 25˚E) France Germany Greece (43˚N, 3˚E) (50˚N, 10˚E) (40˚N, 22˚E) Hungary Italy Lithuania (47˚N, 20˚E) (45˚N, 10˚E) (56˚N, 25˚E) Poland Romania Russia (52˚N, 20˚E) (45˚N, 25˚E) (60˚N, 90˚E) Spain Ukraine United Kingdom (40˚N, 5˚W) (50˚N, 30E˚) (52˚N, 2˚W) © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute Mapping Europe and Russia 1 S t u d E n t H a n d o u t Unlabeled Map of Europe and Russia Arctic Circle 70°N 20°W 0° 10°E 20°E 70°N 40°E 50°E 60°E 70°E 80°E 60°N 250 500 miles Arctic Circle 0 0 250 500 kilometers 50°N Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection 60°N Elevation Feet Meters Over 10,000 Over 3,050 5,001–10,000 1,526–3,050 2,001–5,000 611–1,525 1,001–2,000 306–610 0–1,000 0–305 Below sea level Below sea level Mountain peak 50°N 40°N N W E S 40°N 30°N 10°W 0° 10°E 20°E 30°E 40°E 50°E Elevation 0 500 1,000 miles Arctic Circle 50°N 60°N WCA_LM_09_SH-1Feet Meters 70°N 80°N PhysicalOver 10,000 Map of EuropeOver 3,050 0 500 1,000 kilometers 80°N 70°N 60°N 170°W Fir0° 5,001–10,000st Proof 1,526–3,050 Lambert Conformal Conic projection TCI232,001–5,000 15 611–1,525 1,001–2,000 306–610 Arctic Circle 0–1,000 0–305 Below sea level Below sea level 180° 10°E Mountain peak 170°E 20°E 160°E 50°N 30°E 150°E 40°N 40°E N 40°N E 140°E 50°E W 60°E 130°E 70°E 80°E 90°E 100°E 110°E 120°E S WCA_LM_09_SH-2 © Teachers’Physical CurriculumRussia Institute Mapping Europe and Russia 2 First Proof TCI23 16 S t u d E n t H a n d o u t Physical and Political Features of Europe and Russia Arctic Circle 70°N 20°W 0° 10°E 20°E 70°N 40°E 50°E 60°E 70°E 80°E n d 60°N a l 250 500 miles p Arctic Circle 0 a ICELAND L a i 0 250 500 kilometers 50°N v Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection Norwegian a KAZAKHSTAN 60°N Sea n i d FINLAND Elevation Faroe RUSSIA n Feet Meters Islands a c Over 10,000 Over 3,050 S 5,001–10,000 1,526–3,050 NORWAY ESTONIA 2,001–5,000 611–1,525 ATLAN TIC SWEDEN a 1,001–2,000 306–610 e LAT. S 0–1,000 0–305 IN N o r t h i c LITH. LA Below sea level Below sea level OCEAN lt P S e a DENMARK a RUS. N B EA Mountain peak British Isles OP BELARUS 50°N IRELAND UR UNITED NETH. N E KINGDOM ER POLAND Celtic N O RTH 40°N R GERMANY Dn TURKMENISTAN N Sea h iepe Channel BELG. i r R lish n UKRAINE . Eng e CZECH rpath W R Ca ia . REP. n MOLDOVA SLOV. E LUX. M FRANCE AUS. t Crimea L P S HUNG. s GEORGIA . S Bay of ASWITZ. ROMANIA ARM. SLO. R. Black Sea Biscay Mt. Blanc CROATIA be ITALY nu (15,771 ft. A Adriatic SERB. Da p B.-H. BULG. AZERBAIJAN 4,807 m) e n Balkan IRAN 40°N SPAIN Pyrenees n Peninsula Corsica in Se Iberian e a MACE. TURKEY s ALB. PORTUGALPeninsula Sardinia Aegean Balearic Is. GREECESea SYRIA 30°N IRAQ Strait of Mediterranean Sea CYPRUS Gibraltar Sicily Crete LEB. KUWAIT 10°W 0° 10°E 20°E 30°E 40°E 50°E MOROCCO ALGERIA TUNISIA ISRAEL JOR. SAUDI ARABIA WCA_LM_09_SH-3 UNITED STATES Physical Map Elevationof Europe 0 500 1,000 miles Arctic Circle 50°N 60°N First Proof Feet Meters 70°N 80°N TCI23 Over17 10,000 Over 3,050 0 500 1,000 kilometers 80°N 70°N 60°N 170°W 0°5,001–10,000 1,526–3,050 Lambert Conformal Conic projection Chukchi 2,001–5,000 611–1,525 Wrangel Sea ARCTIC OCEAN Arctic Circle Bering 1,001–2,000 306–610 Island Sea 0–1,000 0–305 East New 180° Below sea level Below sea level Franz Siberian NOR. Josef Land Siberian 10°E Mountain peak North Islands Sea PACIFIC Novaya Land OCEAN Barents Zemlya Kara FINLAND Laptev Kola Sea Sea A 170°E RUS. EST. Sea LAT. Peninsula POLAND LITH. 20°E N I ORTH BEL. ERN EU Kamchatka ROPEAN PLA R Peninsula IN ROM. L e 160°E S n MOL. E a IN R UKRAINE B . Sea of A S I 50°N 30°E T WES T Okhotsk Blac N CEN TRAL U Y s SIBERIAN e SIBERIAN d n k g . O n CA ol a R i Sakhalin s Se V a M PLAIN e PLATEA U l UCA y s I a 40°N R L Ob R. l i . Caspian A r SUS MTS. u TUR. Depression R RUSSIA Amur R. K Mt. Elbrus U (18,510 ft. JAPAN 40°E 5,642 m) CHINA Caspian Lake Sea N KAZAKHSTAN Baikal 40°N IRAQ AZER. E Sea of 140°E Japan 50°E MONGOLIA W TURK. 60°E 130°E (East Sea) UZBEK. 70°E 80°E 90°E 100°E 110°E 120°E S IRAN INDIA © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute Mapping Europe and Russia 3 WCA_LM_09_SH-4 Physical Map Russia First Proof TCI23 18 S t u d E n t H a n d o u t Population Density of Europe and Russia Arctic Circle 70°N 20°W 0° 10°E 20°E 70°N 40°E 50°E 60°E 70°E 80°E 60°N 250 500 miles Arctic Circle 0 0 250 500 kilometers 50°N Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection 60°N Urban Population Number of People Helsinki Over 8,000,000 Oslo 4,000,000–8,000,000 ATLAN TIC Stockholm 1,000,000–4,000,000 OCEAN Glasgow Population Density Per sq. mi. Per sq. km Copenhagen Over 250 Over 100 Leeds Minsk 50°N Hamburg 125–250 50–100 Amsterdam Warsaw Birmingham Kiev Kharkov 25–125 10–50 40°N Essen Berlin Donetsk 2–25 1–10 London Katowice N Brussels Dnipropetrovsk Under 2 Under 1 Prague W Stuttgart Paris Budapest Odessa E Munich Vienna S Lyon Bucharest Milan Belgrade Marseille Sofia 40°N Madrid Barcelona Rome Lisbon Naples 30°N Athens 10°W 0° 10°E 20°E 30°E 40°E 50°E WCA_LM_09_SH-5 Population Density of Europe First Proof Urban Population Population Density 0 500 1,000 miles TCI23 19 Arctic Circle 80°N 50N 60N Number of People Per sq. mi. 70N Per sq. km Over 250 Over 100 0 500 1,000 kilometers Over 8,000,000 80°N 70°N 60°N 170°W 0 125–250 50–100 Lambert Conformal Conic projection 4,000,000–8,000,000 25–125 10–50 1,000,000–4,000,000 2–25 1–10 ARCTIC OCEAN Arctic Circle Under 2 Under 1 180° 10°E PACIFIC OCEAN 170°E 20°E St. Petersburg 160E Moscow 50°N Nizhniy Novgorod 30°E Kazan Rostov na Donu Samara Perm Yekaterinburg 40°N Ufa 150°E Chelyabinsk Omsk 40°E Novosibirsk N 40°N E 140°E 50°E W 60°E 130°E 70°E 80°E 90°E 100°E 110°E 120°E S © Teachers’ Curriculum Institute Mapping Europe and Russia 4 WCA_LM_09_SH-6 Population Density Map of Russia First Proof TCI23 20 S t u d E n t H a n d o u t Economic Activity of Europe and Russia Arctic Circle 70°N 20°W 0° 10°E 20°E 70°N 40°E 50°E 60°E 70°E 80°E 60°N Arctic CircleLand Use Resources Hunting and gathering Coal 50°N Subsistence farming 60°N Hydroelectric power Commercial farming Iron Nomadic herding Natural gas Livestock raising Petroleum (oil) Commercial fishing Precious metals ATLAN TIC Forestry (gold, silver, copper) Trade and manufacturing Uranium OCEAN Little or no activity 50°N 40°N N W E S 0 250 500 miles 40°N 0 250 500 kilometers Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection 30°N 10°W 0° 10°E 20°E 30°E 40°E 50°E WCA_LM_09_SH-7 EconomicLand Use Activity of Europe 0 500 1,000 miles First Proof Arctic Circle 50°N 60°N Hunting and gathering Commercial70°N fishing 80°N TCI23 21 Subsistence farming Forestry 0 500 1,000 kilometers Lambert Conformal Conic projection 80°N 70°N 60°N 170°W 0° Commercial farming Trade and manufacturing Nomadic herding Little or no activity ARCTIC OCEAN Arctic Circle Livestock raising 180° 10°E PACIFIC OCEAN 170°E 20°E 160°E 50°N 30°E 40°N 40°E Resources N Coal Petroleum (oil) 40°N E Hydroelectric power Precious metals 140°E (gold, silver, copper) Iron 50°E W 60°E 130°E Natural gas Uranium 70°E 80°E 90°E 100°E 110°E 120°E S © Teachers’WCA_LM_09_SH-8 Curriculum Institute Mapping Europe and Russia 5 Economic Activity of Russia First Proof TCI23 22.
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