The Geography

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The Geography Peoples of Europe
Based on a slide show by Ms. Susan M. Pojer
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Did You Know?

• Europe is the second smallest continent with
  roughly 4 million square miles of land.
• Europe is designated as a continent for political
  reasons. There is no geographic basis for the
  claim.
• Europe is home to more than 700 million people,
  but birth rates are stagnant.
• Most scholars believe Europe was named after
  Europa, a Phoenician Princess in Greek mythology.

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The smallest country in Europe is the Vatican,
which is considered a separate country from Italy
even though it is in the middle of Rome. The
largest city in Europe is Paris with a population
of just under 10 million. Europe produces just
over 18 percent of all the oil in the world.
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Did you also know?

• The Life expectancy at birth is 68.3 years for
  males, 77 years Females.
• In the Pyrenees region of Andorra, life
  expectancy is 86 yrs M, 95yrs F. In Russia (2005)
  it was 62yrs M, 74 yrs F, and dropping.
•  80 to 90 percent of Europe was once covered in
  forest, but this has been reduced to 3 percent in
  Western Europe.
• Europe has been racked with war throughout its
  history to the point where more than 70 former
  countries have been conquered and no longer
  appear on maps.

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The Dark Ages in Europe lasted from 476 to 1,000
A.D. or twice as long as the United States has
been a country. Adolf Hitler was not German. He
was Austrian, born in the small town of Braunau
am Inn. It is estimated that 62 million people
died in World War II, 2.5 percent of the worlds
population at that time. The 10 most generous
countries in the world when it comes to
charitable giving are all located in Europe.
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Europes 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
Note the length of Europes coastline
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REGIONS
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Topography
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Europe A Peninsula of Peninsulas?
OR
A Peninsula of Asia?
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Europe An Asian Peninsula?
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Northern Peninsulas
Scandinavian Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
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Southern Peninsulas
CrimeanPeninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
AnatoleanPeninsula
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Peninsulas
Scandinavian Pen.
JutlandPen.
Crimean Pen.
Italian Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Iberian Pen.
Anatolean Pen.
Peloponnesian Pen.
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Whatstheanswer??
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Bodies of Water
ArcticOcean
AtlanticOcean
North Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel
CaspianSea
Bay ofBiscay
BlackSea
DardanellesStrait
Adriatic Sea
AegeanSea
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
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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Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major
rivers??
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Capitals on the Rivers (1)
Paris, right bank of the Seine
London on the Thames
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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Whatstheanswer??
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Answer
They are Europes lifeline!
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Rivers
Volga R.
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Vistula R.
Rhine R.
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Loire R.
Danube R.
Po R.
Tiber R.
Ebro R.
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The Danube River
1770 miles
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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 Volga River

• The longest river in Europe --gt 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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MoutainsPeaks
Ural Mts.
Carpathian Mts.
Caucasus Mts.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Apennines Mts.
Mt. Vesuvius
Mt. Olympus
Mt. Etna
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The Alps

• Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts
  of Italy and France.

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Mt. Blanc in the Alps

• Highest mountain in the Alps 15,771 feet

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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 Tepe, 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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Siberian Lowlands
Plains
Northern European Plain
Steppes
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ArcticOcean
Completed Map
Siberian Lowlands
Ural Mts.
Scandinavian Pen.
AtlanticOcean
Jutland Pen.
Volga R.
North Sea
Baltic Sea
Don R.
Northern European Plain
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Vistula R.
English Channel
Oder R.
Rhine R.
Steppes
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Carpathian Mts.
CaspianSea
Loire R.
Caucasus Mts.
Bay ofBiscay
Alps Mts.
Crimean Pen.
Danube R.
Po R.
BlackSea
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Balkan Pen.
Italian Pen.
Tagus R.
DardanellesStrait
Tiber R.
Apennines Mts.
Adriatic Sea
Iberian Pen.
Mt. Vesuvius
Ebro R.
Anatolean Pen.
AegeanSea
Mt. Olympus
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
Mt. Etna
Peloponnesian Pen.
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World Population by Continents
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Members of the Indo-European Language Family
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MajorReligiousGroupsinEurope
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