Europe Russia Physical Geography

Much of western Russia has a ______________ climate. Winters here are still freezing cold, but summers can be hot and steamy.

The coastal parts of Europe bordering the Mediterranean Sea are covered with ___________. Here, the small trees and bushes are well adapted to long, rainless summers.

The largest, oldest and deepest lake in the world that holds one-fifth of Earth’s fresh water.

One of the largest forests on Earth, the Russian _________ ,stretches across most of the Eurasian landmass.

Europe is the world’s ________ smallest continent.

The most northern part of Russia has a __________ climate. The weather is so cold all year that the land is always frozen and winter temperatures can drop as low as –90°F.

3 factors that shape Europe’s climates.

Much of Europe lies on the __________________, which is one of the largest expanses of flat land on Earth and extends almost 2,500 miles from east to west.

Europe and Russia occupy part of the huge landmass called

Southern Europe has a _______________ climate. Its summers are longer, hotter, and drier than in northern Europe. Its winters are short and mild.

Most of northern Europe has a _____________ climate with mild winters, warm summers and bring year-round rain.

Far to the south lie the_____________, or grassy plains, of Russia, which is a region of temperate grasslands too dry to support trees and have mostly been plowed for farms.

In northern Russia, it has a __________ vegetation, the ground is always frozen under the surface, trees cannot send their roots down into the soil.

The European landmass looks like a giant __________ attached to Eurasia, with smaller ones jutting out from all sides of Europe.

This physical feature at 60°E longitude, marks the dividing line between Europe and Asia and between western Russia and eastern Russia.

The area from the Ural Mountains of eastern Russia that spreads across the full width of Asia.