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Europe as aQueen

Munster, 1588


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Europes Latitude v. US


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Former Soviet Region Compared inLatitude & Area with the United States


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Satellite View of Europe


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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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Europe: A Peninsulaof Peninsulas?

OR

A Peninsula of Asia?Peninsula: a long, narrow piece of land projecting out into

a sea or lake.


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Europe: An Asian Peninsula?


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Northern Peninsulas

Jutland Peninsula

Scandinavian Peninsula


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Southern Peninsulas

IberianPeninsula Italian

Peninsula BalkanPeninsula Anatolian

Peninsula

CrimeanPeninsula


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Whats the answer ?


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North

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Atlantic

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BlackSea

Aegean

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Bay of

Biscay

Strait of

Gibraltar

Dardanelles

Strait

Arctic

Ocean

Caspian

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The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum

2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide

Crossroads of 3 Continents

Caesarea on the

Israeli coast

Strait of Gibraltar& thePillars of

Hercules
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Tagus R.

Thames R.

Ebro R.


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The Danube River


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The Danube River

Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria,Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the

Ukraine.

Where Buda

& Pest MeetBiking

Along the

Danube


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The Volga River

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


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The Volga River

The river is sopolluted that the

sturgeon catch hasbeen decreased by

60%.


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Why are most

of the capitalsof Europe on

major rivers?


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Capitals on the Rivers (1)

Paris, right bank of the SeineLondon on the Thames

Prague on the Vltava Budapest on the Danube


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Capitals on the Rivers (2)

Berlin on the SpreeMoscow on the Moscow River

Rome on the Tiber Vienna on the Danube


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Whats the answer ?


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Answer:

They areEuropes lifeline!


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Alps Mts.

Caucasus Mts.

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Mt. Vesuvius ^

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Elevation

AlpsCarpathians

Caucasus

Urals

Pyrennes

Apennines


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The Alps

Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, andparts 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 theword Caucasian.


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Transylvaniain the Carpathian Mountains

Home of Vlad Tepe, theDrakul(Count Dracula)


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Ural Mountains: The Great Divide

Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.


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The Ural Mountains


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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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TheNetherlands:

The DaggerPointing at the

Heart of Britain!


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North

Sea

Atlantic

Ocean Baltic

Sea

BlackSea

Aegean

SeaTyrrhenian

Sea

Bay of

Biscay

Strait of

Gibraltar

Dardanelles

Strait

Arctic

Ocean

Caspian

Sea

Po R.

Tagus R.

Thames R.

Ebro R.

Alps Mts.

Caucasus Mts.

Mt. Etna ^

Mt. Vesuvius ^

Mt. Olympus ^

Jutland

Pen.

Iberian Pen.

Crimean Pen.

Balkan Pen.

Anatolean Pen.

Peloponnesian

Pen.

Italian Pen.


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10,000 BCE Ice Age


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Norwegian Fjords

Glacierscut deepvalleys inthe oceanduring the

Ice Age.


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Reykjavik, Iceland:The Youngest Oldest Country

Volcanoes Hot Springs

Geysers

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Mediterranean Islands

Generally rugged& mountainous.

Mediterranean

Sea so polluted(will take 1000years to clean up).

Sardinia

Cyprus

Malta

Mt Et Si il


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Mt. Etna, Sicily

An activevolcano


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Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

1944 eruption

Pompeii,

79 CE Herculaneum, 79 CE


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Eastern Europe


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Eastern Europe

R i 10 Ti Z


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Russias 10Time Zones

Siberia --> Permafrost


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Siberia --> Permafrost(Permanently frozen subsoil, occurring throughout the Polar Regions and locally

in perennially frigid areas.)

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 deepestlake in the world.

20% of the worlds total

unfrozen water supply.

T Sib i R il d


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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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Europes Latitude v. US


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Climate

Average Annual Precipitation


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Average Annual Precipitation


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Europes Natural Regions


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Europe s Natural Regions

The North European Plain


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The North European Plain

Th N th E Pl i A


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The Northern European Plain --> AnInvasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)

Steppes: Soviet Breadbasket


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Steppes: Soviet Breadbasket

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The Steppes

25% of the oldSoviet Unions

food supply.

Major Regional Divisions of the


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Major Regional Divisions of theFormer U. S. S. R.

Chernozen Soil

Germanys Black Forest


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Germany s Black Forest

Germanys Black Forest


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Germany s Black Forest

Tundra: The Not-So-Barren Land


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Tundra: The Not So Barren LandBelow the Arctic Circle

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Agricultural Activity


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Agricultural Activity


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R

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Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area


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Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area


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MajorEnvironmental

Disasters& PollutionProblems

Acid Rain


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Acid Rain


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Population Density


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Population Density[People Per Square Mile]

Belg ium 336.82 Mexico 52.15

Japan 336.72United

States29.77

India 336.62 World 14.42

United

Kingdom244.69 Norway 14.42

Italy 192.96 Canada 3.36

France 108.09 Russia 8.61


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PopulationDistribution


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PopulationGrowth

Members of the Indo-European


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pLanguage Family


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