| A | B |
| Coutries that make up East Central Europe | Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lituania, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia |
| Acid Rain | rain containing chemical pollutants |
| Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Landlocked | does not border a sea or an ocean |
| bauxite | mineral used to make aluminum |
| Magyars | a nomadic people from Central Asia |
| Spas | Resorts with hot mineral springs |
| Prague | Capital of the Czech Republic |
| Carpathian Mountains | take up about one third of Romanias land area |
| Balkan Peninsula | Lies bwtn the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea |
| Balkan Countries | Romaina, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republics and Albania |
| Consumer goods | clothing, shoes and other products made for people |
| Cyrillic allphabet | created to write the Slavic language |
| ethnic cleansing | forcing other people of different ethic types out of a country |
| refugees | people who flee to another country to escape danger |
| mosques | Muslim House of worship |
| Steppe | gently rolling, partly wooded plain |
| potash | mineral used in fertizer |