WESTERN EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

PENINSULA OF PENINSULAS HOW DID THIS GEOGRAPHY ALLOW BRITAIN TO PRACTICALLY RULE THE WORLD AT ONE TIME?

EUROPE IS OLD, SMALL, AND CROWDED IT HAS LOST MANY OF ITS NATURAL RESOURCES DUE TO OVERUSE WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES?

RHINE RIVER MOST IMPORTANT RIVER IN EUROPE HEADWATERS – GLACIER IN SWITZERLAND FLOWS THROUGH SWITZERLAND, AUSTRIA, LIECHTENSTEIN, GERMANY, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS EMPTIES INTO NORTH SEA ONCE HEAVILY POLLUTED (EUROPE’S SEWER) NOW IMPROVING – RHINE ACTION PROGRAM

RHINE RIVER

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR SEPARATES EUROPE (SPAIN) ACTUALLY GIBRALTAR IS AN AUTONOMOUS BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORY FROM NORTH AFRICA (MOROCCO) CONNECTS MEDITERRANEAN SEA TO ATLANTIC OCEAN *STRAIT – NARROW BODY OF WATER CONNECTING TWO LARGER BODIES OF WATER

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

MEDITERRANEAN DISASTER

NORTH SEA MOST OF EUROPE’S OIL AND NATURAL GAS IS FOUND UNDER THE NORTH SEA

ALPS YOUNGISH MOUNTAINS IN WHAT COUNTRIES ARE THEY LOCATED?

NORTHERN EUROPEAN PLAIN BROAD COASTAL PLAIN MANY RIVERS DENSELY POPULATED LARGE RIVER TOWNS AND PORT CITIES EASY TRADE, TRAVEL, AND MIGRATION MOST IMPORTANT FARMING AREA MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL AREA

NORTH ATLANTIC DRIFT WARM ATLANTIC OCEAN CURRENT MODERATES NORTHWESTERN EUROPE CLIMATES BRINGS MILD TEMPERATURES AND RAIN ORIGINATES OFF NORTHWEST U.S.COAST FED BY WARM GULF STREAM WATERS WOOHOO FOR FARMERS!!!

NORTH ATLANTIC DRIFT

POLDER LAND CLAIMED FROM THE SEA

POLDER BUILD A DIKE PUMP WATER OUT INSTALL WINDMILL HAUL DIRT IN PLANT, BUILD, ETC

POLDER GEMAAL – MODERN PUMP WINDMILLS – NOT USED MUCH ANY MORE