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EUROPE
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• BEN NEVIS: HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 4,406 FT.
• LOW ROUNDED MOUNTAINS AND HIGH PLATEAUS WITH SCATTERED FORESTS.
• THE WESTERN REGION INCLUDES THE MESETA (SPAIN) AND THE MASSIF CENTRAL (FRANCE).
• SOUTHERN EUROPE: GEOLOGICALLY YOUNGER. MOUNTAINS ARE HIGH AND JAGGER.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• EARTHS CRUST LIFTED AND FOLDED FORMING THE PYRENNES. 11,000 FT.
• THE ALPS WERE CREATED BY GLACIATION AND FOLDING. FROM SOUTHERN FRANCE TO THE BALKAN PENINSULA.
• SOME OF MAJOR RIVERS IN EUROPE (RHINE, PO) HAVE THEIR SOURCE IN THE ALPS.
• GREAT EUROPEAN PLAIN. FERTILE SOILS.
• SOUTHERN EDGE OF EUROPE IS ESPECIALLY FERTILE DUE TO LOESS (WIND-BORNE SOIL LEFT BY GLACIERS)
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• DEPOSITS OF COAL, IRON AND ORE LED TO THE EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL ERA.
• MOST OF EUROPE LIES WITHIN 300 MILES OF A SEACOAST.
• SOME REGIONS UNDER SEA LEVEL (NETHERLANDS). BUILT DIKES AND POLDERS
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• EUROPE IS A LARGE PENINSULA MADE UP OF SMALLER PENINSULAS.
• DURING THE LAST ICE AGE THOUSANDS OF LAKES WERE FORMED IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN. IN THE SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA (NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND) FJORDS WERE FORMED.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• SOUTHERN PENINSULA/IBERIAN PENINSULA: SEPARATES THE ATLANTIC OCEAN FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. THE SPACE BETWEEN AFRICA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE’S (IBERIAN PENINSULA) IS KNOWN AS THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR.
• BECAUSE OF THE PYRENEES THE PEOPLE FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA WAS ISOLATED FROM THE REST OF EUROPE AND ORIENTED TOWARDS THE SEA.
• ITALIAN PENINSULA: THE APENNINES.
• BALKAN PENINSULA: LAND TRAVEL IS DIFFICULT DUE TO MOUNTAINS BOUNDED BY THE ADRIATIC, IONIAN, AGEAN AND BLACK SEAS.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• ISLANDS:
• ICELAND: VOLCANOES, HOT SPRINGS AND GEYSERS. HIGH LATITUDE & VOLCANOES.
• GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND: ROCKY CLIFFS, PLATEAUS AND VALLEYS.
• SARDINIA, SICILY, CORSICA, CRETE AND CYPRUS. TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. (MOUNT ETNA IS THE HIGHEST ACTIVE VOLCANO IN EUROPE, LOCATED IN SICILY).
WATER SYSTEMS
• RIVERS IN SCANDINAVIA ARE SHORT.
• ON THE IBERIAN PENINSULA THEY ARE NARROW AND SHALLOW.
• THE THAMES IN ENGLAND ALLOWS FOR LARGER SHIPS TO REACH LONDON.
• THE RHINE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RIVER IN WESTERN EUROPE. FROM THE SWISS ALPS THROUGH FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.
WATER SYSTEMS
WATER SYSTEMS
• THE DANUBE RIVER. EASTERN EUROPE’S MAJOR WATERWAY. FROM GERMANY THROUGH HUNGARY AND ROMANIA TO THE BLACK SEA.
NATURAL RESOURCES
• ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF COAL AND IRON.
• LARGE DEPOSITS OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS UNDER THE NORTH SEA.
• FRANCE LACKS LARGE OIL AND COAL RESERVES HAS INVESTED IN NUCLEAR POWER.
NORTHERN EUROPE
• UNITED KINGDOM
• IRELAND
• ICELAND
• NORWAY
• SWEDEN
• FINLAND
• DENMARK
POPULATION
• MOST DENSELY POPULATED AREA: THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND.
• EARLY MIGRATION APPROX 2500-3000 YEARS AGO. (THE CELTICS)
• FOLLOWED BY ROMANS, NORMANS AND OTHER INVADERS.
• LAST CENTURY: MIGRATIONS FROM SOUTH ASIA AND THE WEST INDIES.
• SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND DANES: GERMANIC HERITAGE & CULTURE
• EARLY ANCESTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN ARRIVED ABOUT 12000 YEARS AGO
CLIMATE
• CLIMATES AND VEGETATION VARY FROM THE SUB-ARTIC ICELAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN AND FINLAND TO THE WARM MEDITERRANEAN COAST OF ITALY, SPAIN AND GREECE.
• SAME LATITUDE WITH BOSTON, PARIS’ WINTER IS MILDER DUE TO WARM WINDS BROUGHT BY THE NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT.
• THE TUNDRA REGIONS OF NORTHERN EUROPE HAVE PERMAFROST (SOIL FROZEN BELOW THE SURFACE)
CLIMATE
• MOST OF WESTERN EUROPE HAS MILD WINTERS, COOL SUMMERS AND ABUNDANT RAINFALL.
• SOUTHER EUROPE HAS A MEDITARRENEAN CLIMATE, WITH HOT DRY SUMMERS AND MILD, RAINY WINTERS.
• THE MISTRAL, A STRONG NORTH WIND FROM THE ALPS CAN SEND GUSTS OF COLD AIR INTO FRANCE.
• SIROCCOS, HOT DRY WINDS FROM AFRICA BRING HIGHER TEMPERATURES TO THE REGION.
• MOST OF EASTERN EUROPE, HAS HUMID CONTINENTAL CLIMATE WITH COLD SNOWY WINTERS AND HOT SUMMERS.
CLIMATE
• THE ALPS HAVE A HIGHLAND CLIMATE WITH COLDER TEMPERATURE AND MORE PRECIPITATIONS.
• FOEHNS, WINDS THAT BLOW FROM THE MOUNTAINS INTO VALLEYS AND PLAINS CAN TRIGGER AVALANCHES.
CLIMATE
CLIMATE
• STEPPE CLIMATE: HOT SUMMERS AND EXTREMELY COLD WINTERS. DRY, COLD GRASSLANDS AT HUNGARY, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO, ROMANIA, UKRAINE AND CENTRAL ASIA.
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