EUROPE

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EUROPE
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Physical Geography of Europe

• Most of Europe lies within 300 mile of the coast
• How do you think this affects their life?
• Advantages fish, transportation, hydroelectric
  power
• Polders reclaimed land that once was
  underwater, used for farming and settlement
• Disadvantages floods
• Dikes- large banks (like a seawall) of earth and
  stone to hold back water

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Peninsula of Peninsulas

• Europe is a large peninsula made up of smaller
  peninsulas
• Northern Peninsulas
• Scandinavia
• Norway, Sweden Finland
• fjords
• Jutland
• Denmark
• Baltic
• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, little bit of Russia

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• Southern Peninsulas
• Iberian
• Spain Portugal
• Rugged mountains prevented migration for
  centuries
• Apennine
• Italy Vatican City
• Active volcano Mount Vesuvius

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• Balkan
• Greece, Albania, Macedonia
• Rugged landscape encourages water transportation

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Monaco- most of it.
St. Peters Square
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Formula 1 Grand Prix
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Mountain Regions

• The Alps
• Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France, Austria
• Pyrenees
• Spain and France
• Apennines
• Italy
• Carpathian Mnts.
• Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine

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River Systems

• Sharp contrasts between river systems throughout
  Europe
• Scandinavias rivers are short
• Iberias rivers are narrow
• What is a disadvantage of these characteristics?
• The Rhine runs through Switzerland, France,
  Germany
• The Danube runs through Germany, Austria,
  Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria
• What are the advantages of such long rivers?
• What river in the USA has this advantage?

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Seine River - Paris, France
Peone, France
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Plains Regions

• North European Plain
• Includes SE England, W. France, Poland, Ukraine,
  and part of Russia
• Heavily populated area due to
• Rich soil
• Define loess
• Mineral deposits
• Great Hungarian Plain
• Agriculture
• Livestock

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• Take out your GeoJournals, get ready to turn them
  in.
• Pick up map directions on the red desk

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The Rhine
The Danube Budapest, Hungary
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Amsterdam, Holland/Netherlands

Cinque Terre, Italy
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Mont St. Michel, France
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Natural Resources

• The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th
  centuries capitalized on Europes resources.
• What was the most common source of energy
  utilized at this time?
• How has this affected the environment?
• Areas lacking in mineral resources have found
  alternative energy sources
• Peat vegetable matter burned for fuel

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Industry
Port of Rotterdam

• Heavy and light
• 60 W. Europe Service
• Banking, Technology, Tourism
• Farming
• Depend on climate and geography
• Mixed farming crops and livestock
• Farming Co-op
• Collective farms (state owned, USSR)
• Communications
• RR TGV fastest train in the world
• 2000 bridge b/w Demark and Sweden
• Autobahen
• Rotterdam largest port in the world

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10 mile long bridge
2.5 mile long tunnel
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European Union

• 1950 common market for coal and steel (EEC)
• 1992 Maastricht treaty set up EU
• Free trade
• Single currency
• Common foreign policy
• Central Bank
• Original 12 members
• Be-Ne-Lux, FR, IT, GER, GR, SP, IR, PR, UK, Den
• 2002 Euro

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• 3 official candidates
• Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia
• Potential candidates
• Albania, Bosnia, Serbia, Iceland, Montenegro
• 27 member countries
• Switzerland and Norway not members
• UK member, doesnt use Euro

EU Central Bank
EU Parliament
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Euro Zone Countries
European court of Justice, Luxembourg
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Islands

• Iceland
• Volcanoes, hot springs geysers
• British Isles
• GB and Ireland hills, cool temps
• Sicily, Corsica, Crete
• Greece
• Rugged landscape