1. Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Geography
& Peoples
of Europe
Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. 3,800 square miles

3. R E G I O N S

4. The Danube River
1770 miles

5. Biking Along the Danube
The Danube River
Where Buda & Pest Meet
Biking Along the Danube
Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine. 2nd longest river

6. The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
The Volga River
The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.

7. The Volga River
The river is so polluted that the sturgeon catch has been decreased by 60%.

8. Capitals on the Rivers (2)
Moscow on the Moscow River
Berlin on the Spree
Rome on the Tiber
Vienna on the Danube

9. M o u t a i n s & P e a k s Ural Mts. Carpathian Mts. Caucasus Mts.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Apennines Mts.
Mt. Vesuvius ^
Mt. Olympus ^
Mt. Etna ^

10. The Caucasus Mountains
The origin of the word Caucasian.

11. Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (“Count Dracula”)

12. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
1500 miles
Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

13. The Ural Mountains

14. Eastern
Europe

15. Eastern Europe

16. Siberia --> Permafrost
Average temperatures of January vary from 0 to -50°C, and in July from 1 to 25°C
150,000,000 population.
A former “gulag” Soviet prison camp.

17. Lake Baikal, Siberia The oldest and deepest lake in the world.
20% of the world’s total unfrozen water supply.

18. Trans-Siberian Railroad
Completed in 1905.

19. Trans-Siberian Railroad
The main line runs 5,785 miles.

20. The North European Plain

21. Steppes: “Soviet” Breadbasket

22. The Steppes
25% of the old Soviet Union’s food supply.

23. Germany’s Black Forest

24. Germany’s Black Forest