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Eastern Europe
Lesson 27:
Physical Features of Eastern Europe
and the Russian Federation
We will use the activity map on page 51 to locate and label waterforms and landforms that make
up thephysical geography of EasternEuropeand the
Europeanportionof theRussianFederation
.
ACTIVITY 1:
LabelingWaterforms
Lettershavebeenused to identify themajorwaterformsof EasternEuropeand theRussianFederation.
1) Find each of the letters below on the activitymap on page 51.
2) If the letter representsa river, trace the river inblueand label it on thecorrect blankspacebelow themap.
3)Waterforms, such as seas, only need to be labeled.
Use the physical map of Europe in your classroom atlas as a reference.
Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation
Major Bodies ofWater
(Clue)
Rivers andLakes
(Clue)
A
–Barents Sea (Russia)
a
–WesternDvina (Belarus toRussia)
B
–WhiteSea (Russia)
b
–Dniester River (Ukraine toMoldova)
C
–Gulf of Finland
c
–Dnieper River (Russia, Belarus toUkraine)
D
–Gulf of Riga (Estonia)
d
–DanubeRiver (Romania toBulgaria)
E
–Baltic Sea (Baltic States)
e
– Lake Ladoga (Russia)
F
–Black Sea
f
– LakeOnega (Russia)
G
–Sea of Azov (Ukraine)
g
–VolgaRiver (Russia)
i
– DonRiver (Russia)
H
–CaspianSea
h
–OkaRiver (Russia)
j
–Khoper River (Russia)
ACTIVITY 3:
LabelingLandforms
On your activity map on the previous page, label the
boldfaced
landforms of Eastern Europe and the
RussianFederation that are found in the statementsbelow.Use your classroomatlasasa resource tohelp
you locateeach landform.
1. Part of Estonia is an archipelago of hundreds of islands. The largest
island,
Saaremaa
, forms the northwest corner of theGulf of Riga.
2. The
CarpathianMountains
stretch from the southwestern corner of
Ukraine throughRomania.
3. To the south of the Danube River basin in Bulgaria are the
Balkan Mountains
. The
Rhodope Mountains
form the
southern border of BulgariawithGreece.
4. The
Caucasus Mountains
extend from the Black Sea to the
Caspian Sea and mark Europe’s southern border with the
continent of Asia.
5. The
Ural Mountains
mark the Russian Federation’s European
andAsian border.
Estonia,
Latvia,
and
Lithuania border
the Baltic Sea and are known
as the
Baltic States.
To the
west of Lithuania on the Baltic
is
KalingradOblast
, a small
state that remains part of the
Russian Federation
