1. Geography of Europe
Ch. 9.1
Study the geography of the Europe and the Eurasian land mass, including its location, topography, waterways, vegetation, and climate and their relationship to ways of life in Medieval Europe.

2. I. Location

3. Europe: Asia
Eurasia is the large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia.

4. Label EURASIA in LARGE CAPITAL BLUE LETTERS over your map

5. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
1500 miles
The Ural Mountains are the boundary between the two continents.

6. The Ural Mountains

7. Label the Ural Mountains and draw mountains

8. II. Topography

9. Topography is the shape and elevation of land in a region.

10. Southern Europe

11. Southern Europe is covered mainly by mountain ranges.
Caucasus
Pyrennes
Carpathians
Alps
Apennines

12. Some peaks in the Alps reach higher than 15,000 feet!
The Alps cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and France.
Some peaks in the Alps reach higher than 15,000 feet!

13. Mt. Blanc in the Alps
Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet

14. Label the Alps and draw mountains

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

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

17. Northern Europe

18. Northern Europe is much flatter and is called the Northern European Plain
Stretches from Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east

19. Northern Europe is covered with thick forests and many types of trees.

21. Many peninsulas that give Europe a very long, jagged coastline
Northern British Isles and Scandanavia
Scandinavian Peninsula
Many peninsulas that give Europe a very long, jagged coastline

22. III. Climate

24. Southern Europe: largely warm and sunny climate allows shrubs and trees that don’t need a lot of water.

25. Northwestern Europe: mild and cooler, wetter climate bring freezing weather in the winter where few plants can survive

26. 1. Label Northern Europe with a sun 2
1. Label Northern Europe with a sun Label Southern Europe with snowflakes

27. IV. Waterways

28. R i v e r s Many of Europe’s rivers are in the Northern European Plain
Some important rivers are the Danube, Thames, Rhine, Rhone, Ural, Volga, Ebro
The snow in the southern mountains melts and flows out over the plain on its way to the northward sea.
R i v e r s
Volga R.
Don R.
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Vistula R.
Rhine R.
Oder R.
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Loire R.
Danube R.
Po R.
Tagus R.
Tiber R.
Ebro R.

29. The Danube River
1770 miles

30. 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.

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

32. The Volga River

33. Label these rivers and trace them in blue.
Danube
Thames
Volga

34. V. Vegetation

35. Vegetation: How geography shapes life
Southern Europe: Most people lived on coastal plains (similar to Japan) or in river valleys (like Africa) where the land was flat enough to farm
Grapes and olives were grown that could survive the region’s dry summers
People raise sheep and goats
Many people became traders and seafarers

36. Southern Europe Draw grapes and olives along the Southern coast
2. Add goats and sheep
3. Now, draw boats to represent the traders and seafarers

37. Northern Europe: Most people lived farther from the sea and most towns grew along the river.
London on the Thames
Paris, right bank of the Seine
Prague on the Vltava
Budapest on the Danube

38. Northern Europe
Draw small houses near the river to represent where people lived.

39. VI. The Big Idea

40. VI. The Big Idea The river provides transportation and protection
Farmers grew many crops
No mountains surrounded northern Europe making it easy to invade

41. VII. Checking for
Understanding

42. Checking for Understanding
What is the boundary between Europe and Asia? Where are most of Europe’s rivers located? How is the topography of southern Europe different from that of the Northern European Plain? What part of Europe do you think was open to more invasions? Why?