Europe's Geography

Match

Match the following

• Alps

• Ireland

• English

• Eiffel Tower

• Big Ben

Mountains

Island

Channel

Paris

London

• Mountains

• Island

• Channel

• Paris

• London

Match

Match the following cities to their country.

• Paris

• London

• Berlin

• Athens

• Rome

France

United Kingdom

Germany

Greece

Italy

• France

• United Kingdom

• Germany

• Greece

• Italy

Match

Match the following

• Glacier

• Fjord

• Trans-Siberian

• North

• Mont Blanc

Moving river of ice

Body of water made by a glacier

Railway

Sea

Mountain

• Moving river of ice

• Body of water made by a glacier

• Railway

• Sea

• Mountain

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Satellite View of Europe

Africa

Asia

3,800 square miles

Multiple Choice

What years are the Middle Ages?

• 100-300

• 500-600

• 500-1500

• 500-2000

* Hamburg

Northern Peninsulas

Jutland Peninsula

Scandinavian Peninsula

Southern Peninsulas

Iberian
Peninsula
Italian

Peninsula Balkan

Peninsula

Multiple Choice

What is a peninsula?

• Piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land

• Land surrounded on 3 sides by water

• Land surrounded on 2 sides by water

• Land with water all the way around it.

English Channel

Multiple Choice

What body of water divides Britain from the mainland (France)?

• Atlantic

• North Sea

• English Channel

• Baltic Sea

Multiple Choice

What sea is to the south of Europe?

• North Sea

• Med Sea

• Black Sea

• Baltic Sea

Elevation

Alps
Carpathians

Urals

Pyrennes

The Alps

eCover most of Switzerland, Austria, and
parts of Italy and France.

Mt. Blanc in the Alps

eHighest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet

Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”

eDivides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

1500 miles

The Ural Mountains

Multiple Choice

What mountain range is to the north of Italy?

• Himalayas

• Pyrenees

• Urals

• Alps

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Northern European Plain

Steppes

Siberian Lowlands

Glacier calving causes huge wave

Multiple Choice

What is a glacier?

• An iceberg

• An ice cube

• Moving river of ice

• Ice floats

Norwegian Fjords

eGlaciers
cut deep
valleys in
the ocean
during the
Ice Age.

Multiple Choice

What is a fjord?

• Area carved out by a glacier and filled with water.

• Waterway caused by an earthquake.

• Man made water way.

• A river in Scandinavia

Word Cloud

Type in one word that you now know about Europe, so far.

Earthquake Zones

Reykjavik, Iceland:

“The Youngest Oldest Country”

e Volcanoes

e Hot Springs

e Geysers

eGlaciers

Mediterranean Islands

eGenerally rugged
& mountainous.

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

Sardinia

Cyprus

Malta

Mt. Etna, Sicily

e An active
volcano

Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

e 1944 eruption

e Pompeii,
79 CE

e Herculaneum, 79 CE

Siberia --> Permafrost

e Average temperatures of January
vary from 0 to -50°C, and in
July from 1 to 25°C

e 150,000,000 population.

e A former “gulag”
Soviet prison camp.

Lake Baikal, Siberia

eThe oldest and deepest
lake in the world.

e 20% of the world’s total
unfrozen water supply.

Trans-Siberian Railroad

eCompleted in 1905.

Trans-Siberian Railroad

eThe main line runs 5,785 miles.

Match

Match the following

• Rome

• Alps

• Scandinavia

• North Sea

• Urals

City in Italy

Mountains north of Italy

Peninsula

Body of Water

Mountains to the east

• City in Italy

• Mountains north of Italy

• Peninsula

• Body of Water

• Mountains to the east

Draw

Try drawing the Polar Express or a reindeer

Multiple Choice

Why does the British Isles have warm coastlines?

• Its closer to the sun

• It just does

• Warm currents from Iceland

• Warm currents from the Gulf of Mexico

North Atlantic Drift

The North European Plain

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

Steppes: “Soviet” Breadbasket

The Steppes

e25% 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