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Climate and vegetation of Europe Essential Questions: How has physical geography affected where people have settled in Europe? Learning Target: IWBAT explain how the climate has influenced where people live in Europe. Formative Assessment(s): Name five important landforms in Europe. Explain why these landforms are important.
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE:
CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
CLIMATE AND VEGETATION OF EUROPE
•Essential Questions: How has physical geography affected where people have settled in Europe?•Learning Target: IWBAT explain how the climate has influenced where people live in Europe.•Formative Assessment(s): Name five important landforms in Europe. Explain why these landforms are important.
BELLWORK
What climates would you expect to find in Euorope?
ALPS FUN FACTS• The Alps can be found in 8 countries: Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Monaco.•A mummified man was found in the Alps at the Austrian/Italian border in 1991, said to be 5,000 years old.• In the Alps there are 82 official summits that are at least 4,000 m (13,123 ft) high, and the highest peak is Mont Blanc which is 4,810 meters (15, 780 feet) high and is on the French and Italian border.
CLASSWORK• TOGETHER, read about Influences on Climate on
page 286• Write and answer the following questions in your
notes:1. Where do the Rhine and Po Rivers originate?2. Which plain stretches through Poland, Russia, and
Ukraine?3. What is loess?4. How far away is most of Europe from the sea?5. What are polders used for?
FJORD
CLASSWORK• TOGETHER, read about Landforms and Water
Systems on pages 281-283• Write and answer the following questions in your
notes:6. What sea do many European countries touch?7. What islands are considered to be part of Europe?8. What links inland Europe to the seas?9. What three countries does the Rhine connect?10.List five major rivers in Europe
MEDITERRANEAN FUN FACTS
•The Romans called the Mediterranean Mare Nostrum (Our Sea).•The coast of the Mediterranean runs past 22 countries.•The only island nations in the Mediterranean are Malta and Cyprus.
CLASSWORK
• As you read Natural Resources (page 284), make a web diagram of all the natural resources found in Europe. (Hero point to the person who finds the most!
CLASSWORK
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
•Name five important landforms in Europe. Explain why these landforms are important.
