Mrs. Sceviour's Illustrated Geography Dictionary # 11-14

One of the greatest uninterrupted expanses of plains on the earth from the Pyrenees Mountains, across norther Europe, to the Ural Montains in Russia.

• Steppe

• The European highlands

• Northern European Plain

• The Great Plains

A shrubbed habitat on infertile and acidic soil with scrubby bushes, and in Great Britain a cooler and damper climate.

• Heath and Moor

• tundra

• tiaga

• steppe

A vast grass-covered plain without trees except near rivers and lakes as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

• Taiga

• Steppe

• The Great Plains

• Northern European Plain

A system of mountains known as the Alps which are the highest and most extensive mountain range that is entirely in Europe.

• The Caucasus Mountains

• The Ural Mountains

• The Great Pyrenees

• Alpine Sstem

A region of Northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.

• The Kola Peninsula

• Scandinavia

• Northern Europe

• The Alpine System

A long narrow inlet of the sea that cuts into a coastline and is usually borederd by steep mountain slopes and cliffs.

• Fjord

• Cape

• Strait

• Cay

A cold, usually frozen, boggy area in northern Europe and Asia along the Arctic coastline.

• Heath and Moor

• Steppe

• Tundra

• Taiga

Cold forest lands in northern regions.

• permafrost

• tundra

• bogs

• taiga

Term used when referring to Europe and Asia as one continent.

• European Union

• Eurasia

• Northern European Plain

• Pangea

The first country to form a government based on a system known as Communism.

• China

• Vietnam

• North Korea

• Soviet Union