Physical geography of Europe

Physical Geography of Europe

The Seas and the Coasts The Orography

The Lakes and the Rivers The Climate and Vegetation

World Map Continents
 EURASIA

EUROPE ASIA
A great
peninsula
of Asia
Physical Geography of Europe

The Seas and the Coasts

 SCANDINAVIAN

AREAS TO
CLASSIFY THE
SEAS

ATLANTIC
INNER SEAS

MEDITERRANEAN
 Greenland Sea ARCTIC OCEAN Sea of
Barents

White Sea
Norwegian Sea
SEAS AND OCEANS
Skagerrak and Kattegat AROUND EUROPE

Baltic STRAITS
ATLANTIC Sea
OCEAN North
Sea

Irish resund
Sea of
Sea Azov
English Channel Caspian
Sea
Cantabrian
Sea
Ad Bosphorus Black Sea
Ligurian ria and
tic
Sea Se Dardanelles Sea of
a Marmara
Gibraltar Tyrrhenian
Sea Otranto Aegean
Mediterranean Sea Sea
Ionian Sea Sea of
Messina Crete
 Kola

Scandinavian
EUROPEAN
PENINSULAS

North
South
Jutland

Crimea

Iberian
Italian Balkan

Peloponnese
 ATLANTIC ISLANDS

ICELAND
Feroe Islands
Shetland BALTIC
Islands ISLANDS EUROPEAN
Orkney Islands ARCHIPELAGOS
land AND ISLANDS
Hebrides
Islands Saaremaa
BRITISH ISLES
Gotland
Ireland Great
Britain Zealand

Channel
Islands

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS
Corsica
BALEARIC Sardinia
ISLANDS
AEGEAN
Sicily ISLANDS Cyprus
Malta Crete
Reykjavik North

CAPES OF EUROPE

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Scandinavian Area

Bo
in la nd
F Atlantic Area
Riga
Mediterranean Area

Land's End GULFS AND BAYS

Pointe Saint- OF EUROPE
Mathieu Baltic Area
Finisterre Bay of Atlantic Area
Biscay
Mediterranean Area
Rock Lio Genoa
n Tarento
Cadiz

Spartivento
St.
Vincent
Matapan
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Physical Geography of Europe

Orography
PLAINS AND PLATEAUS

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MOUNTAIN RANGES

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2,469 m

Highlands
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Massif Carpathian Elbruz Caucasus

Central Alps D ina Mountains 5,642 m Mountains
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Mount
Mulhacen Olympus
3,478 m 2,917 m
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The Lakes and the Rivers

RIVERS OF EUROPE
BASINS OF EUROPE
River basins' features

Arctic long rivers, regular course, frozen in winter

Atlantic & Baltic short, high volume of water

Mediterranean short, irregular

Black & Caspian long and regular

Main rivers in Europe
VOLGA DANUBE
Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary,
Russia Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria,
Moldova, Ukraine
Valdai Hills (Russia) Black Forest (Germany)
Astrakhan (Caspian Sea) Danube Delta (Black Sea)
3,645 km (longest) 2,860 km (second longest)
1,350,000 km2 (river bassin) 817,000 km2 (river bassin)
Vienna, Budapest,
Volgograd, Kazan
Belgrade, Bratislava
RHINE
Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein,
Germany, France, The Netherlands
Alps (Switzerland)
Rhein Delta (North Sea)
1,230 km (not too long)
185,000 km2 (river bassin)
Cologne, Strasbourg,
Dsseldorf
EUROPEAN
LAKES GREAT LAKES

ALPINE LAKES
Constanza
Geneva
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Climates and vegetation of Europe

CLIMATES OF EUROPE
Mediterranean climate

Temperatures Precipitation
High in summer Scarce in summer
Low rainfall (draught)
Mild in winter
Adequate in winter
Cold drop (autumn)

Vegetation
Bushes
Holm oaks
Oaks
Pines
Oceanic climate

Temperatures Precipitation
Mild in summer Abundant
Low in winter Regular

Vegetation
Meadows
Deciduous forest
Oaks, beech
Continental climate

Temperatures Precipitation
High in summer Abundant in
Low in winter summer

Vegetation
Grass
Evergreen trees
Taiga (near arctic)
Poor soil
Polar climate

Temperatures Precipitation
Low in summer Scarce
Very low in winter

Vegetation
Very scarce
Mosses, lichens
Small shrubs
Tundra
Mountain climate

Temperatures Precipitation
Cool in summer Abundant
Very low in winter

Vegetation
Scarce
Mosses, lichens
Small shrubs
Tundra
Steppe climate

Temperatures Precipitation
Extreme Very scarce
High in summer
Cold in winter

Vegetation
Plants adapted to
the scarcity of water
Grasslands
Shrublands
What climate are these climograms?

Steppe / Desert Oceanic Continental

Mediterranean Polar Mountain

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