Landforms, resources, climate, and human-environment interaction in Europe.

1. Europe:
The Basics

4. Peninsulas
• Europe is one big peninsulas that has a lot of smaller
peninsulas. Here are a few of them.

5. Scandinavian Peninsula.

6. • The Scandinavian Peninsula has a bunch fjords in them
that ancient glaciers carved out.

11. • Jutland Peninsula

13. • Iberian Peninsula

15. • Italian Peninsula

17. • Balkan Peninsula

19. Mountains
• There are several mountain chains in Europe.

20. • The most prominent chain is the Alps, which go across
France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

23. • The Apennines run down the Italian Peninsula

25. • The Balkan Mountains

27. General uplands
• Hills, low mountains, and plateaus.
• Several, such as the Scottish Highlands, the Meseta in
Spain and the Massif Central in France.

28. Rivers
• A big one is the Danube.

30. • The Rhine

32. Climate

33. • Europe is kept relatively warm due to wind and ocean
currents bringing warmer tropical air north.
• This is the North Atlantic Drift.

35. • Mountain ranges tend to block some of the cold, dry
winds from the north from affecting the Mediterranean
region, but some parts without mountain cover still get
it.
• The mistral wind is an example.
• Sometimes they also get the sirocco wind, a warm, dray
wind sweeping in from North Africa.

36. Human-Environment Interaction
Polders
• These are areas in the Netherlands that were reclaimed
from the sea.

37. This is mainly
done in the
Netherlands

44. • The dikes are earthen dams that help hold back the sea
from the Netherlands generally.
• There also terpen, which are high areas people can
go to in case of flooding.