Ch. 13 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The Northern European Plan is a broad _____ area north of the Carpathians covering most of Poland and many Baltic countries.
  2. 4. The Baltic Sea provides a trade route between mainland Europe and the ________ Peninsula.
  3. 7. The Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims were the two _____ groups most affected by ethnic cleansing during the 1990s.
  4. 9. The Oder River links industrial cities with _____ on the Baltic Sea.
  5. 10. The Mediterranean sea connect to the _______ Ocean, allowing trade between countries in Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.
  6. 14. Environmental awareness in Eastern Europe is _____ among people in the Balkans.
  7. 16. Yugoslavia only existed from the 1940s to the 1990s because its corrupt _____ was removed and the territory was absorbed by neighboring countries.
  8. 18. Much of Eastern Europe has a _____ continental climate.
  9. 20. Many people in Eastern Europe burn wood to heat their homes because it is cheaper than _______.
Down
  1. 2. Logging is _____ in nationally protected forests in Eastern Europe.
  2. 3. Access to navigable _____ played the greatest role in the development of most major cities in Eastern Europe.
  3. 5. Countries joining the European Union must comply with EU environmental regulations, including ______ emissions of acid-producing chemicals.
  4. 6. The Black Sea connects Europe to ____.
  5. 8. Hungary and Moldova do experience air pollution, but they are _____ ranked at the very top of the list of countries where people have died from urban air pollution.
  6. 11. During the communist era, almost no communist countries in Eastern Europe had anti-pollution ____.
  7. 12. The industrial area of Poland, eastern Germany and the Czech Republic is called the black ______ because the burning of coal coats the are with black soot.
  8. 13. The Main-Danube Canal is a waterway that connects Eastern Europe to the ____ Sea and Northwestern Europe.
  9. 15. The earliest people of Eastern Europe were Slavs, Germanic, and _____.
  10. 17. The Northern Adriatic sub region of Eastern Europe experiences short, mild ____ and year round rain.
  11. 19. While Lithuania faces environmental challenges, including deforestation, industrial pollution, and water contamination, it does not have forests or rivers that are completely unable to sustain ____.