Europe Map Study

Europe is a Europe is a well-watered well-watered continent with continent with many rivers. many rivers. Most of the Most of the continent's continent's drainage finds drainage finds its way to the its way to the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean via a number via a number of master river of master river systems, systems, whose whose watersheds watersheds interlock in a interlock in a most complex most complex manner. manner. Europe’s rivers

Danube River

Danube RiverThe second longest The second longest river in Europe, it is river in Europe, it is one of the major one of the major methods of methods of transportation. It is transportation. It is the only major the only major European river to flow European river to flow west to east, going west to east, going through eight through eight countries and three countries and three capitals including: capitals including: Budapest, Hungary; Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria; and Vienna, Austria; and Belgrade, Serbia.Belgrade, Serbia.

Danube RiverDanube RiverDanube River

Dneper River

Don River

Elbe River

Oder River

Po River• Longest river in Italy,

flows through Turin, Piacenza, Ferrara, and is connected to Milan by canal.

• Po Valley main industrial area of Italy.

Rhine River

• One of the longest in Europe. Important for trade and transportation. Historically important, many castles along it where river traffic could be stopped to collect taxes and tolls

Rhine River shippingRhine River shipping

Seine and Rhone

• Seine-Paris• Rhone-South of

France

Seine

Rhone

Thames River

Ural River

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Volga RiverThe The Volga Volga RiverRiver in in Western Western Russia, Russia, Europe's Europe's longest river, longest river, with a length with a length of 3,690 km, of 3,690 km, provides the provides the core of the core of the largest river largest river system in system in Europe.Europe.

Volga River

Peninsulas

• A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.

A-Iberian PeninsulaB-Scandinavian PeninsulaC-Balkan PeninsulaD-Italian PeninsulaE-Jutland PeninsulaF-British Isles

Italian BootThe Italian The Italian peninsula or the peninsula or the Apennine Apennine peninsula is one of peninsula is one of the greatest the greatest peninsulas of peninsulas of Europe, spanning Europe, spanning 1000 km from the 1000 km from the Alps in the north, to Alps in the north, to the central the central Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea in the south.in the south.

Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

Climatically, the Iberian Peninsula has hot summers, cold winters, and limited precipitation.

Westernmost Westernmost European European peninsula peninsula containing containing Portugal, Portugal, Spain, and Spain, and Andorra.Andorra.

MesetaThe middle of Spain The middle of Spain is a high, dry, flat is a high, dry, flat plateau called the plateau called the MesetaMeseta. In the . In the Meseta Meseta it can be it can be very hot in the very hot in the summer and cold in summer and cold in the winter.the winter.

Balkan Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula

Kola Peninsula

Scandinavian Peninsula

Fjord -Fjord - A long, narrow arm of the sea, usually formed A long, narrow arm of the sea, usually formed

by entrance of the sea into a deep glacial trough.by entrance of the sea into a deep glacial trough.

Major Mountains of Europe

AlpsThe Alps is the The Alps is the collective name collective name for one of the for one of the great mountain great mountain range systems of range systems of Europe, stretching Europe, stretching from Austria in the from Austria in the east, Slovenia, east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Liechtenstein and Germany, through Germany, through to France in the to France in the west. The word west. The word Alps means Alps means mountains.mountains.

IbexAn ibex challenges intruders in the An ibex challenges intruders in the AlpsAlps

The Alps

Apennine Mountains

Carpathian Mountains

Caucus Mountains

Pyrenees Mountains

Ural Mountains

Po Valley

Po Valley

Hungarian Basin

Lakes Ladoga and Onega

Lake Ladoga

Lake Onega

Iceland

Ireland

Britain

This island is Britain

This is the political division of the islands.

Corsica

Sardinia

Sicily

Crete

Cyprus