Europe’s Latitude v.

US
 Former Soviet Region Compared in
Latitude & Area with the United States
Satellite View of Europe
3,800 square miles
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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.
7,687,000
Australia)
Europe: A Peninsula
of Peninsulas?

OR
A Peninsula of Asia?
Europe: An Asian Peninsula?
Northern Peninsulas

Scandinavian Peninsula

Jutland Peninsula
 Southern Peninsulas

Crimean
Peninsula
Iberian
Italian
Peninsula
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Peninsula
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What’s
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The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum

Strait of Gibraltar
& the “Pillars of
Hercules”

2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide

Caesarea on the
“Crossroads of 3 Continents” Israeli coast
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 The Danube River

Where Buda
Biking & Pest Meet
Along the
Danube

Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria,

Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the
Ukraine.
 The Volga River

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

The Volga River

The river is so
polluted that the
sturgeon catch has
been decreased by
60%.
Why are most
of the capitals
of Europe on
major rivers??
Capitals on the Rivers (1)

London on the Thames Paris, right bank of the Seine

Prague on the Vltava Budapest on the Danube

 Capitals on the Rivers (2)

Moscow on the Moscow River Berlin on the Spree

Rome on the Tiber Vienna on the Danube

What’s
the
answer
??
 Answer:
They are
Europe’s lifeline!
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Urals

Caucasus

Pyrennes

Carpathians
Alps

Apennines
 The Alps

Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and

parts of Italy and France.
 Mt. Blanc in the Alps

Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet

 The Caucasus Mountains

The origin of the

word Caucasian.
Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains

Home of Vlad Tepeš , the

Drakul (“Count Dracula”)
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The BENELUX Countries

* Belgium

* Netherlands

* Luxembourg
Holland’s Dikes
Amsterdam’s Canals
 The
Netherlands:

The “Dagger”
Pointing at the
Heart of
Britain!
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10,000 BCE – Ice Age
Norwegian Fjords

Glaciers
cut deep
valleys in
the ocean
during the
Ice Age.
Earthquake Zones
 Reykjavik, Iceland:
“The Youngest Oldest Country”

Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Geysers
 Mediterranean Islands
Generally rugged
& mountainous. Sardinia

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

Malta
 Mt. Etna, Sicily

An active
volcano
 Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

Pompeii, Herculaneum, 79
79 CE CE

1944 eruption
Eastern Europe
Russia’s 10 Time Zones
 Siberia --> Permafrost

Average temperatures of January

vary from 0 to -50°C, and in
July from 1 to 25°C
A former “gulag” 150,000,000 population.
Soviet prison camp.
 Lake Baikal, Siberia

The oldest and deepest

lake in the world.
20% of the world’s total
unfrozen water supply.
Trans-Siberian Railroad

Completed in 1905.
Trans-Siberian Railroad

The main line runs 5,785 miles.

Europe’s Latitude v. US
Climate
Average Annual Precipitation
Europe’s Natural Regions
The North European Plain
The Northern European Plain --> An
Invasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)
Steppes: “Soviet” Breadbasket
The Steppes

25% of the old

Soviet Union’s
food supply.
Major Regional Divisions of the
Former U. S. S. R.

Chernozen Soil
Germany’s Black Forest
Germany’s Black Forest
Tundra: The Not-So-Barren Land
Below the Arctic Circle
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Agricultural Activity
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 Major
Industrial
Resources
Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area
 Major
Environmental
Disasters
& Pollution
Problems
Acid Rain
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.
31,000,000
Australia)
no permanent
Antarctica
population
 Population Density
[People Per Square Mile]
Belgium 336.82 Mexico 52.15

United
Japan 336.72 29.77
States

India 336.62 World 14.42

United
244.69 Norway 14.42
Kingdom

Italy 192.96 Canada 3.36

France 108.09 Russia 8.61

 Population
Distribution
Population
Growth
Members of the Indo-European
Language Family
 Major
Religious
Groups
in
Europe