The Geography

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The Geography Peoples of Europe
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Label Countries of Europe

• Ireland
• France
• United Kingdom
• Spain
• Portugal
• Germany
• Belgium
• Poland
• Ukraine
• Rumania
• Greece
• Italy
• Holland
• Denmark
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Norway
• Finland
• Austria

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Europe as a Queen Munster, 1588
Where is Munster?
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What do we already know?

• Make a list of five facts you already know about
  the geography and history of Europe.
• Work with your collaborative partner.
• Whats this?

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Match Place with the Nation
Bell Work!

• Thames River
• Madrid
• Normandy
• Florence
• Athens
• Budapest
• Warsaw
• Ulster
• Munich

• Ireland
• Spain
• Greece
• Italy
• Poland
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• England

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Europes Latitude v. US
What conclusions can you make from this map? Why
doesnt it snow in Ireland? Do you think Athens
has weather like St. Louis?
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Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
What happened to the Soviet Union? What was the
symbol of communism in Europe?
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Soviet Union - Questions

1. What mistake ruined the armies of both Napoleon
   and Hitler?
2. What line marked the division between free and
   communist countries in Europe?
3. Why did the Soviet Union take over countries in
   Europe in 1945?
4. What was the title of the Russian kings?
5. What is the capital city of Russia?
6. What was the war without actual fighting called
   between WW II and the 1980s?

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Satellite View of Europe
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Homework 9-16-13 Ireland

• Read pages 315-317
• Answer questions 1-5 on page 317
• Quiz on reading tomorrow.
• Key terms
• Blight, Ulster, Euro, inflation, peat,
  Protestants, Emerald Isle, Normans, Dublin,
  Belfast.

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3,800 square miles
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REGIONS
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Continents by Size (sq. km.)
Asia 44,579,000
Africa 30,065,000
North America 24,256,000
South America 17,819,000
Antarctica 13,209,000
Europe 9,938,000
Oceania (incl. Australia)   7,687,000
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Homework

• Read pages 305 to 309.
• Answer questions 1 to 5 on page 309.
• Be ready for a quiz tomorrow on England.

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Performance Task - Europe

• Students working with collaborative partner.
• Have already completed one day of research.
• Today we will make a list of cities/students.
• Thursday, each student will prepare answers to
  these questions in clear paragraphs with
  capitalization, punctuation and at least five
  sentences.
• Describe your city size, major sites, culture,
  history, people.
• Describe the environmental issue being faced by
  your city.
• Discuss the politics involved in the issue in
  your city. Are there different sides of the
  issue?
• Outline a proposed solution for the environmental
  issue. What is the cost? Who will pay the cost?
• When these questions are answered, you can begin
  your script.

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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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Rivers
Volga R.
Don R.
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Vistula R.
Oder R.
Rhine R.
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Loire R.
Danube R.
Po R.
Tagus 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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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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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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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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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 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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Siberian Lowlands
Plains
Northern European Plain
Steppes
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The BENELUX Countries

• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Luxembourg

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Hollands Dikes
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Amsterdams Canals
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The NetherlandsThe Dagger Pointing at the
Heart of Britain!
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Plateaus
Meseta
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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.
English Channel
Rhine R.
Steppes
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Carpathian Mts.
CaspianSea
Caucasus Mts.
Bay ofBiscay
Alps Mts.
Crimean Pen.
Danube R.
Po R.
BlackSea
Pyrennes Mts.
Balkan Pen.
Italian Pen.
Tagus R.
DardanellesStrait
Tiber R.
Adriatic Sea
Iberian Pen.
Mt. Vesuvius
Anatolean Pen.
AegeanSea
Mt. Olympus
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
Mt. Etna
Peloponnesian Pen.
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10,000 BCE Ice Age
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Norwegian Fjords

• Glaciers cut deep valleys in the
  ocean during the Ice Age.

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Earthquake Zones
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Reykjavik, IcelandThe Youngest Oldest Country

• Volcanoes
• Hot Springs
• Geysers

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Mediterranean Islands

• Generally rugged mountainous.
• Mediterranean Sea so polluted (will take
  1000 years to clean up).

Sardinia
Cyprus
Malta
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Mt. Etna, Sicily

• An active volcano

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Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

• Pompeii, 79 CE

• Herculaneum, 79 CE

• 1944 eruption

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Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Russias 10 Time Zones
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Siberia --gt Permafrost

• Average temperatures of January vary from 0
  to -50C, and in July from 1 to 25C
• 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 worlds total unfrozen water
  supply.

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

• Completed in 1905.

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

• The main line runs 5,785 miles.

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Climate
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Europes Latitude v. US
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Climate
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Average Annual Precipitation
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Vegetation
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Europes Natural Regions
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The North European Plain
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The Northern European Plain --gt An Invasion Route
into Asia ( Vice Versa?)
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Steppes Soviet Breadbasket
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The Steppes

• 25 of the old Soviet Unions food
  supply.

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Major Regional Divisions of the Former U. S. S. R.
Chernozen Soil
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Germanys Black Forest
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Germanys Black Forest
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Tundra The Not-So-Barren LandBelow the Arctic
Circle
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Land Use
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Agricultural Activity
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Natural Resources
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RESOURCES
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MajorIndustrialResources
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Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area
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Geographic Problems
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MajorEnvironmentalDisasters PollutionProblems
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Acid Rain
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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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Population DensityPeople Per Square Mile
Belgium 336.82 Mexico 52.15
Japan 336.72 United States 29.77
India 336.62 World 14.42
United Kingdom 244.69 Norway 14.42
Italy 192.96 Canada 3.36
France 108.09 Russia 8.61
What can you conclude from these statistics?
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PopulationDistribution Is Europe densely
populated? What areas have few people?
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PopulationGrowth What nations have the highest
growth? What nations have the lowest population
growth? What three factors influence population
growth?
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Members of the Indo-European Language Family
What empire is the root of Romance
languages? What invaders spread Germanic
languages?
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MajorReligiousGroupsinEurope
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