 Peninsulas and Islands Europe is sometimes called a “peninsula of peninsulas”  Scandinavian Peninsula (Norway & Sweden)  Jutland Peninsula (Denmark & Germany)  Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal)  Italian Peninsula (Italy)  Balkan Peninsula (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova).

 Coal  Iron ore  Both are needed for an industrialized economy  33% of Europe’s land is suitable for agriculture  Timber  Oil and Natural Gas

 Marine West Coast – Much of Europe (northern Spain across most of France, Germany and to western Poland, British Isles)  North Atlantic Drift – current of warm water flowing near Europe’s west coast. Warms westerly winds that elevate temperature and carry moisture.

 Humid Continental – Sweden, Finland, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary  Much of Europe has suffered from deforestation

 Mediterranean Climate (Southern Spain and France through Italy to Greece and other parts of the Balkan Peninsula)  Mistral winds – cold, dry wind from the north  Sirocco winds, hot steady south wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe

 Dikes – earthen banks that hold back the sea  Polder – land in the Netherlands that is drained and dried  40% of the Netherlands was once under sea  Seaworks – structures used to control the sea’s destructive impact on human life (include dikes and terpen)  Terpen – high earthen platforms that provide places to go for safety during floods and high tides

 Zuider Zee – an arm of the North Sea and is now a fresh-water lake. Now called Ijsselmeer – Land around the lake was Drained, creating several Polders that added hundreds of square miles of land to the Netherlands

Swampy land, Flooding Canal, pilings Drained polders City is sinking Created new land Venice Netherlands

 How does this photo convey the devastation caused by acid rain?