Chapter 12 Notes

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Chapter 12 Notes

• Physical Geography of Europe
• The Peninsula of Peninsulas

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Peninsula of Peninsulas- Europe is a large
  peninsula of Asia, plus there are many peninsulas
  jutting out from it also.

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Fjords- U-shaped valleys that connect to the sea,
  filled with seawater after glaciers melted.
• Created by glaciers
• Common in Norway

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Northern Peninsulas-
• Scandinavian Peninsula
• Sweden Norway
• Jutland Peninsula
• Denmark

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Southern Peninsulas-
• Iberian Peninsula-
• Spain Port
• Italian Peninsula-
• Italy
• Balkan Peninsula-
• Greece, Serbia

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• European Islands- Iceland, Greenland, Ireland,
  Great Britain, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Ibiza,
  Crete

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Mountain Chains of Europe-
• Alps, Pyrenees, Apennine, Balkan Mountains

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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Uplands- are hills or low mts.
• Massif Central- uplands of France

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• Seine River

Danube River
Rhine River
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Section 1 Landforms Resources

• Peat- partially decayed plant matter, found in
  bogs, and used as fuel
• (Few Trees)
• Non-renewable (1mm per year)

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Section 2 Climate Vegetation

• North Atlantic Drift- current of warm water from
  the tropics
• Prevailing westerlies pick up warmth from this
  and helps give Europe a mild climate

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Section 2 Climate Vegetation

• Ice Hotel in Northern Sweden

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Section 3 Human-Environment Interaction

• Dikes- earthen banks
• Polder- land that is reclaimed from the sea by
  diking and draining the water.
• 40 of the Netherlands (Holland) was once
  underwater
• Windmills are a familiar site here

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Section 3 Human-Environment Interaction
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• Venice-
• Weight of the buildings is causing the city to
  slowly sink
• Global Warming?

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Section 3 Human-Environment Interaction

• Acid Rain in Europe- has been happening since the
  industrial revolution in the 1700s