Eastern Europe Geography (Ch 7 Sec 1)

a body of water in the eastern part of the region

• Caspian Sea

• Black Sea

• East China Sea

• Baltic Sea

the most important river in the region

• Danube

• Nile

• Vistula

• Dnieper

type of vegetation in the northern part of the region

• savannah

• forests

• shrubs

• grasslands

low mountain range that stretches in a long arc from the Alps to the Black Sea area

• Appenines

• Dinaric Alps

• Italian Alps

• Carpathians

largest plain stretching across the region

• Northern European Plain

• Great Polish Plain

• Great Hungarian Plain

• North Atlantic Plain

land mass that extends into the Mediterranean Sea

• Crete

• Baltic Coast

• Balkan Peninsula

• Iberian Peninsula

area with the coldest climate in Eastern Europe

• inland

• Baltic Coast

• Balkan Peninsula

• Carpathians

body of water in the far north of the region

• Mediterranean

• Aegean Sea

• Black Sea

• Baltic Sea

The nuclear power plant in the Ukraine that suffered two large explosions which released massive amounts of radioactive materials

• Pripyat

• Chernobyl

• Chechnya

• Danube

mountain range on the Balkan Peninsula

• Carpathians

• Dinaric Alps

• Italian Alps

• Everest