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Physical Map
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
English Channel
Black Sea
Baltic Sea
Alps Mountains
Pyrenees Mountains
Danube River
Rhine River
Loire River
Balkan Mountains
North Sea
Fjords
• Fjords – steep U-shaped valleys that connect to the sea and that filled with seawater after the glaciers melted
• Often found in Norway and Sweden
Land of peninsulas
• Peninsula – a point of land extending into an ocean or lake
• Scandinavian Peninsula – Norway and Sweden
• Iberian Peninsula – Spain and Portugal
• Italian Peninsula – Italy
• Balkan Peninsula – mulitple countries – Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, etc.
Islands
• A body of land surrounded by water
• Islands in Europe – Great Britain and Ireland, Iceland
• Many countries have island off of them – ex. Greece, Italy, France
Great Britain and Ireland
Mountains
• Most famous mountain chain in Europe is the Alps Mountains that stretches across France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the northern Balkan Peninsula