Title: The Geography
1The Geography Peoples of Europe
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4Label Countries of Europe
- Ireland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Portugal
- Germany
- Belgium
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Rumania
- Greece
- Italy
- Holland
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Finland
- Austria
5Europe as a Queen Munster, 1588
Where is Munster?
6What 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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8Match 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
9Europes 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?
10Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude Area
with the United States
What happened to the Soviet Union? What was the
symbol of communism in Europe?
11Soviet Union - Questions
- What mistake ruined the armies of both Napoleon
and Hitler? - What line marked the division between free and
communist countries in Europe? - Why did the Soviet Union take over countries in
Europe in 1945? - What was the title of the Russian kings?
- What is the capital city of Russia?
- What was the war without actual fighting called
between WW II and the 1980s?
12Satellite View of Europe
13Homework 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.
143,800 square miles
15REGIONS
16Continents 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
17Homework
- Read pages 305 to 309.
- Answer questions 1 to 5 on page 309.
- Be ready for a quiz tomorrow on England.
18Performance 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.
19Topography
20Europe A Peninsula of Peninsulas?
OR
A Peninsula of Asia?
21Europe An Asian Peninsula?
22Northern Peninsulas
Scandinavian Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
23Southern Peninsulas
CrimeanPeninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
AnatoleanPeninsula
24Peninsulas
Scandinavian Pen.
JutlandPen.
Crimean Pen.
Italian Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Iberian Pen.
Anatolean Pen.
Peloponnesian Pen.
25Whatstheanswer??
26Bodies of Water
ArcticOcean
AtlanticOcean
North Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel
CaspianSea
Bay ofBiscay
BlackSea
DardanellesStrait
Adriatic Sea
AegeanSea
TyrrhenianSea
Strait ofGibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
27The 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
28Rivers
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.
29The Danube River
1770 miles
30The 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.
31The Volga River
- The longest river in Europe --gt 2,300 miles.
32The Volga River
- The river is so polluted that the sturgeon
catch has been decreased by 60.
33Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major
rivers??
34Capitals on the Rivers (1)
Paris, right bank of the Seine
London on the Thames
Prague on the Vltava
Budapest on the Danube
35Capitals on the Rivers (2)
Moscow on the Moscow River
Berlin on the Spree
Rome on the Tiber
Vienna on the Danube
36Whatstheanswer??
37Answer
They are Europes lifeline!
38MoutainsPeaks
Ural Mts.
Carpathian Mts.
Caucasus Mts.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Apennines Mts.
Mt. Vesuvius
Mt. Olympus
Mt. Etna
39Elevation
Urals
Caucasus
Pyrennes
Carpathians
Alps
Apennines
40The Alps
- Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts
of Italy and France.
41Mt. Blanc in the Alps
- Highest mountain in the Alps 15,771 feet
42The Caucasus Mountains
- The origin of the word Caucasian.
43Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
- Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (Count
Dracula)
44Ural Mountains The Great Divide
1500 miles
- Divides the European and Asian sections of
Russia.
45The Ural Mountains
46Siberian Lowlands
Plains
Northern European Plain
Steppes
47The BENELUX Countries
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Luxembourg
48Hollands Dikes
49Amsterdams Canals
50The NetherlandsThe Dagger Pointing at the
Heart of Britain!
51Plateaus
Meseta
52ArcticOcean
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.
5310,000 BCE Ice Age
54Norwegian Fjords
- Glaciers cut deep valleys in the
ocean during the Ice Age.
55Earthquake Zones
56Reykjavik, IcelandThe Youngest Oldest Country
- Volcanoes
- Hot Springs
- Geysers
57Mediterranean Islands
- Generally rugged mountainous.
- Mediterranean Sea so polluted (will take
1000 years to clean up).
Sardinia
Cyprus
Malta
58Mt. Etna, Sicily
59Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
60Eastern Europe
61Eastern Europe
62Russias 10 Time Zones
63Siberia --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.
64Lake Baikal, Siberia
- The oldest and deepest lake in the world.
- 20 of the worlds total unfrozen water
supply.
65Trans-Siberian Railroad
66Trans-Siberian Railroad
- The main line runs 5,785 miles.
67Climate
68Europes Latitude v. US
69Climate
70Average Annual Precipitation
71Vegetation
72Europes Natural Regions
73The North European Plain
74The Northern European Plain --gt An Invasion Route
into Asia ( Vice Versa?)
75Steppes Soviet Breadbasket
76The Steppes
- 25 of the old Soviet Unions food
supply.
77Major Regional Divisions of the Former U. S. S. R.
Chernozen Soil
78Germanys Black Forest
79Germanys Black Forest
80Tundra The Not-So-Barren LandBelow the Arctic
Circle
81Land Use
82Agricultural Activity
83Natural Resources
84RESOURCES
85MajorIndustrialResources
86Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area
87Geographic Problems
88MajorEnvironmentalDisasters PollutionProblems
89Acid Rain
90Demographics
91World 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
92Population 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?
93PopulationDistribution Is Europe densely
populated? What areas have few people?
94PopulationGrowth What nations have the highest
growth? What nations have the lowest population
growth? What three factors influence population
growth?
95Members of the Indo-European Language Family
What empire is the root of Romance
languages? What invaders spread Germanic
languages?
96MajorReligiousGroupsinEurope
97Arrivederci!
Good Bye!
Au Revoir!
Adios!
Cairete!
Auf Wiedersehen!
Do Svidaniya!