The European Landscape: Part I-Natural Regions and Mountain Ranges
What is the cultural landscape? It is the landscape created in Europe by humans. An example? Terracing, which is used extensively in Europe.
Europe is one big peninsula, which is centrally located and close to the sea. Its natural regions consist of four parts:
a. The North European Highlands
b. The North European Plain (where the ice age* left all the dirt)
c. The Central Uplands
d. The Alpine Mountain System
(*The Ice Age in Europe--over time the climate changed-- the Forest was once in the Meditterranean, but eventually moved further north as the land dried up and the ice receded.)
The Major Landforms of Europe:
a. Inner Zone
b. Outer Zone
c. Heartland
d. Peripheries
The Mountain Ranges of Europe and the countries they are in:
a. The Alps --France/Switzerland/Austria/Germany/Italy
b. The Pyrenees Mountains--Spain/France
c. The Apennine Mountains--Italy
d. The Carpathian Mountains--Poland/Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania
e. The Balkan's --Bosnia/Serbia & Montenegro/Albania/Federal Republic of Macedonia/Greece
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