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Lesson 24:
Physical Features of Southern Europe
Wewill use theactivitymaponpage46 to locateand label thewaterformsand landforms thatmake
up the physical geography of SouthernEurope.
ACTIVITY 1:
LabelingWaterforms
Letters have been used to identify themajor waterforms of SouthernEurope.
1) Find each of the letters below on the activitymap on page 46.
2) If the letter representsa river, trace the river inblueand label it in thecorrect blankspacebelow themap.
3)Waterforms, such as seas, only need to be labeled.
Use the physical map of Europe in your classroom atlas as a reference.
Southern Europe
Major Bodies ofWater
(Clue)
Rivers andLakes
(Clue)
A–AtlanticOcean
H–AdriaticSea
B–TheStrait ofDover
I – IonianSea
C–EnglishChannel
J–AegeanSea
D–Bayof Biscay
K–DardanellesStrait
(AegeanSea)
E–Strait ofGibraltar
L–SeaofMarmara
(Greece/Turkey)
F–MediterraneanSea M–BosporusStrait
(BlackSea)
G–TyrrhenianSea
ACTIVITY 2:
LabelingLandforms
On your activitymap on page 46, label the
boldfaced
landforms of SouthernEurope that are found in
the statements below.Use your classroom atlas as a resource to help you locate each landform.
1.The
PyreneesMountains
form the border of the IberianPeninsula and France.
2. The
Alps
stretch fromsoutheasternFrance intonorthern Italy,Switzerland, Liechtenstein, andAustria.
3. Located in theAlpson theborderofFranceand Italy,
MontBlanc
is thehighest point inWesternEurope.
4. The
Apennines
are a long range of mountains that stretch through much of the boot-shaped
peninsula of Italy.
5.Geographers often includeSoutheasternEurope andGreece in amuch larger land area known as
the
BalkanPeninsula
.TheBalkanPeninsulacoversahugearea that stretches southward from the
Adriatic Sea in thewest, and the Black Sea in the east, to the Aegean andMediterranean Seas in
the south.
6. The southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula is
Peloponnesian Peninsula
which is connected to the
mainland of Greece by the
Isthmus of Corinth
.
7.
Crete
, located in theAegeanSea, is the largest of themanyGreek islands.
a–Tagus (Spain/Portugal) i –LakeGeneva (France)
b–Douro (Spain/Portugal) j –Danube (Belgrade, Serbia)
c –Ebro (Spain)
k –Vardar (Macedonia)
d–Po (Italy)
l –Sava (Slovenia/Croatia)
e–Tiber (Rome, Italy)
m–LakeScutari (Montenegro)
f –Loire (France)
n–LakeOhrid (Macedonia)
g–Seine (France)
o–LakePrespa (Macedonia)
h–Rhone (France)
Southern Europe
