1. Introduction to Eastern Europe and Siberia

2. Objectives
On a blank map, identify Siberia, the Urals, the Carpathians, and the Black Sea.
Describe the climate differences between Eastern and Western Europe, and between Eastern Europe and Siberia.
Describe the population differences between Eastern and Western Europe, and between Eastern Europe and Siberia.
Describe where hard borders and soft borders are in Eastern Europe.
Describe how the lack of hard borders have affected Eastern Europe’s history.
Name the majority language group / ethnic group of Eastern Europe.
Identify the two alphabets used in Eastern Europe.

3. Terms and Places
The Urals is the mountain range that divides European Russia from Siberian Russia.
Siberia is the vast, cold, underpopulated region east of the Urals.
Danube River runs through or borders more countries than any other river.
Black Sea is the largest sea in Eurasia.
Warsaw Pact was an alliance of Eastern European nations.
Warsaw Pact
Carpathians are a U-shaped mountain range in East Europe.
NATO
Cyrillic Alphabet is used by several Eastern Europe countries.

4. Location and Physical Geography
Part 1:
Location and Physical Geography

5. This region is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean
It is bordered on the west by Western Europe.
It is bordered on the east by the Pacific Ocean.
White Sea
Baltic Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Adriatic Sea
It is bordered on the southeast by the Orient.
It is bordered on the southwest by the Moslem world.

6. The region east of the Ural Mountains is called Siberia.
Siberia is also known for its wildlife.
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Siberia is rich in timber and minerals, but it is extremely cold.

7. This pipeline carries natural gas from Siberia to Europe.

8. Most of the population is west of the Ural Mountains

9. What are Eastern Europe’s Outstanding Features?
Part 2:
What are Eastern Europe’s Outstanding Features?
Great Plains
crossed with rivers

10. What are Eastern Europe’s Outstanding Features?
Part 2:
What are Eastern Europe’s Outstanding Features?
The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea.
The two most important rivers in Eastern Europe are the Danube and the Volga.
The Danube runs through or along more countries than any other river.

11. The Black Sea is the largest sea in Eurasia.
The Black Sea forms one of the borders between Europe and Asia.
The Black Sea tends to be saltwater in its deeper parts and fresh water toward the surface.
Saltwater flow in from the Mediterranean, and fresh water from Europe’s rivers.
Black Sea

12. The Carpathian Mountains are a fish-hook shaped range in Eastern Europe.
This rugged area still has bears and wolves, which have vanished from most of Europe.

13. Part 2:
Climate

14. Eastern Europe doesn’t get the warm winds from Africa, like Spain, Italy, and Greece.
sirocco
sirocco
sirocco

15. Eastern Europe isn’t warmed by the Gulf Stream either.
The western parts of northern Europe get warmth from the Gulf Stream waters.

16. Eastern Europe is colder than Western Europe!

17. Borders; Political Groups
Part 3:
Borders; Political Groups

18. Hard borders like mountains, seas, and wide rivers are mostly on Eastern Europe’s edges.
The interior of Eastern Europe has soft borders. These are difficult to defend.
Repeatedly, armies have rolled right across them.
Political boundaries

19. Belarus and Ukraine and Moldova
These northern countries each have coastline on the Baltic Sea. Each of these countries has become members of the EU.
Russia
Baltic States
Unlike Western Europe, Eastern Europe is dominated by one giant country – Russia.
Poland
Some people in each of these three countries want to stay close to Russia. Some people in each of these three countries wants to move closer to the EU.
Belarus and Ukraine and Moldova
North Carpathians
Black Sea Balkans
These landlocked nations of Eastern Europe that are now members of the EU.
Adriatic Balkans
This was once a single nation called Yugoslavia, but it had a brutal civil war and broke up.
People in these two countries are poor and live traditional lives with little technology.

20. The EU, originally in Western Europe, is spreading further into East Europe.

21. Part 4:
Human Geography

22. Moscow is by far the largest city of Eastern Europe.
The population of Eastern Europe is low when compared to western Europe.
Moscow
London
Paris
However, the population of Eastern Europe is high when compared to Siberia.
Rome

23. Finno-Ugric Slavic Slavic Slavic Slavic Latin Latin Slavic Latin Greek
The majority of Eastern Europe is occupied by Slavic peoples.
Finno-Ugric
Their languages are similar and share many words.
Germanic
Slavic
Germanic
Slavic
Slavic
Germanic
Slavic
Latin
Hungarian
Latin
Slavic
Latin
Greek

24. Traditional Slavic clothing is colorful.

25. Sometimes traditional Slavic clothing and uniforms include fur for the cold weather.

26. and the unpainted country houses.
Traditional Slavic architecture includes the onion-shaped domes on church steeples
and the unpainted country houses.

27. Cyrillic Alphabet Latin Alphabet Mixed
English uses the Latin Alphabet.
Some Eastern European nations use the Cyrillic Alphabet.
Cyrillic Alphabet
Latin Alphabet
Mixed

29. Catholics follow a leader in Rome called the Pope.
In the western countries, people tend to follow the Catholic religion; in the east, they tend to be Orthodox.
Orthodox Christians use icons – pictures or statues – to help them worship.
Typically, the Pope has been Italian, but in 1978 the Catholic church elected a Polish pope – John Paul II. He helped end Communist rule.

30. Questions

31. Which correctly describes the physical geography of Eastern Europe?
Borders
Which correctly describes the physical geography of Eastern Europe?
What nation is by far larger than the others in Eastern Europe, both in size and population?
Mountains and seas are generally around its edges; interior borders tend to be easy to cross.
Romania
Poland
Russia
The edge borders are easy to cross, but mountains and seas are form its interior borders.
Ukraine

32. What separates Europe from Siberia?
Physical Geography
Name the name of the vast, underpopulated portion of Russia in the east.
What separates Europe from Siberia?
The Alps
The Ural Mountains
The North Sea
Siberia
The Mediterranean
Which color map shows the correct location of the Ural Mountains?
What feature of physical geography challenges Eastern European’s ability to defend themselves?
The north of many nations are permanently frozen.
Name the longest river in Europe.
The Volga
Many nations’ borders have mountains that are difficult to cross.
The Dnieper
The Danube
Many nations lack defensible borders like seas and mountains.
The Rhine
The borders are swampy and people cannot built rail there.

33. Which are the Carpathian Mountains?
Physical Geography
Which is the Black Sea?
Which are the Carpathian Mountains?

34. Which area has the highest population? Which the least?
Population Density
Which area has the highest population? Which the least?
Name the largest city in Eastern Europe.
Western Europe
Highest
Moscow
Eastern Europe
Medium
Siberia
lowest
Which correctly describes how the climate of Eastern Europe compares to Western Europe?
Eastern Europe’s climate is colder than Western Europe’s.
Eastern Europe’s climate is about the same as Western Europe’s.
Eastern Europe’s climate is warmer than Western Europe’s.

35. What language group is by far the majority in Eastern Europe?
Language and Customs
What language group is by far the majority in Eastern Europe?
Which most correctly describes the religious connections of Eastern Europe?
Germanic
Eastern Orthodox and Muslim.
Slavic
Eastern Protestant and Catholic
Latin
Eastern Protestant and Muslim
Hungarian
Eastern Orthodox and Catholic

36. “Plains, Uplands, and Mountains of Russia.” pgs. 14. AND
Please read
“Cultures of Eastern Europe.” World Studies: Europe and Russia. Pearson-Prentice-Hall, pgs
Complete questions at the end.
And
“Plains, Uplands, and Mountains of Russia.” pgs AND
“Lakes” pg World Studies: Europe and Russia. Pearson-Prentice-Hall, About 6 page