| A | B |
|---|
| taiga | northern coniferous forests |
| Bosporus and Dardanelles | straits that divide Europe from Asia |
| crest | highest point of mountain |
| Causasus Mountain | form a natural boundary |
| Mrs. Feld | looking forward to summer vaction |
| maritime climate | influenced by winds blowing off the sea |
| time zone | earth is divided into 24 of these |
| continental climate | cold winters,hot summers |
| Ms. Rett | best math teacher |
| tundra | treeless arctic region |
| Ms. Heinlein | best reading teacher |
| Ms. Levine | best social studies teacher |
| Carpathian/Balkan Mts. | gorge is between these 2 mountains |
| Volga River | longest river in Europe |
| folk tale | story handed down from 1 generation to another |
| Danube River | flows from the Black Forest to Black sea |
| proverb | short saying that expresses some truth or fact |
| gorge | a anrrow passage |
| steppe | treeless plain |
| permafrost | layer of permanently frozen earth |
| Black Sea | Danube, Dneiper and Don flow into it |
| Ural Mountains | rich in minerals |
| Slavic language | spoken by Slavs |
