750 miles across 8 countries
Highest peak is Mont Blanc
The Alps
Boundary between France and Spain
Highest peak is Aneto
Pyrenees Mountains
930 miles long
Highest peak is Mount Gerlach
Transylvania
Carpathian Mountains
Spine of the Italian Peninsula
Apennine Mountains
Boundary between Russia and Georgia
Mount Elbrus
Caucasus Mountains
2,300 mile river entirely in Russia
Volga River
Second longest river in Europe
Begins in Black Forest
Flows through 10 countries
Danube River
Border between France and Germany
Flows through Lake Constance
Rhine River
Divides Paris into Left Bank and Right Bank
Water quality is a concern
Crossed by 37 bridges
Seine River
Longest river entirely in England
Great Stink of 1858
River Thames
Between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France
North Sea
Nearly enclosed sea bordered by many Scandinavian countries
One of the least saline seas
Baltic Sea
Between eastern Greece and western Turkey
Scattered with over 1400 islands
Aegean Sea
Separates the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula
Venice and Dubrovnik
Adriatic Sea
Between southern Italy, western Greece, and Albania
Earthquake prone
Ionian Sea
West of Italy, bordered by Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily
Naples & Palmero
Tyrrhenian Sea
Also called Iberian Sea
Lies off eastern coast of Spain
Balearic Sea
Large inland sea
Undersea river
Called “Euxine Sea” meaning “Hospitable Sea”
Black Sea
Considered both a lake and a sea
Inflow from Volga and Ural rivers
Produces 90% of the world’s caviar
Caspian Sea
