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The Geography & Peoples of Europe
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Europe as a Queen Munster, 1588
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Europe’s Latitude v. US
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States
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Satellite View of Europe
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3,800 square miles
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R E G I O N S
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Scandinavian Peninsula
Northern Peninsulas Scandinavian Peninsula Jutland Peninsula
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Southern Peninsulas Crimean Peninsula Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula Balkan Peninsula AnatoleanPeninsula
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B o d i e s of W a t e r Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean North Sea
Baltic Sea English Channel Caspian Sea Bay of Biscay Black Sea Dardanelles Strait Adriatic Sea Tyrrhenian Sea AegeanSea Strait of Gibraltar Mediterranean Sea
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The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum
Strait of Gibraltar & the “Pillars of Hercules” 2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide “Crossroads of 3 Continents” Caesarea on the Israeli coast
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The Danube River 1770 miles
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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.
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The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
The Volga River The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
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The Volga River The river is so polluted that the sturgeon catch has been decreased by 60%.
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Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major rivers??
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Capitals on the Rivers (1)
London on the Thames Paris, right bank of the Seine Prague on the Vltava Budapest on the Danube
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Capitals on the Rivers (2)
Moscow on the Moscow River Berlin on the Spree Rome on the Tiber Vienna on the Danube
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What’s the answer ??
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They are Europe’s lifeline!
Answer: They are Europe’s lifeline!
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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 ^
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Elevation Urals Caucasus Pyrennes Carpathians Alps Apennines
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The Alps Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and France.
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The Caucasus Mountains
The origin of the word Caucasian.
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Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (“Count Dracula”)
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Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
1500 miles Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.
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The Ural Mountains
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Northern European Plain
Siberian Lowlands P l a i n s Northern European Plain Steppes
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Amsterdam’s Canals
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Mediterranean Islands
Generally rugged & mountainous. Mediterranean Sea so polluted (will take years to clean up). Sardinia Cyprus Malta
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Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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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.
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Lake Baikal, Siberia The oldest and deepest lake in the world.
20% of the world’s total unfrozen water supply.
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Climate
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Climate
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Average Annual Precipitation
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Vegetation
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The North European Plain
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The Steppes 25% of the old Soviet Union’s food supply.
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Tundra: The Not-So-Barren Land Below the Arctic Circle
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Natural Resources
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Geographic Problems
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Major Environmental Disasters & Pollution Problems
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Demographics
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World Population by Continents
Asia 3,737,000,000 Africa 823,000,000 Europe 729,000,000 North America 486,000,000 South America 351,000,000 Oceania (incl. Australia) 31,000,000 Antarctica no permanent population
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