Mountains & Plains of Europe Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• canton : switzerland has twenty-six of these — each with its own laws and courts, because of the mountainous geography
• sovereignty : supreme authority and independence of a state or people
• erosion : process that turns mountains into plains over millions of years
• pastoral : description of life in the countryside
• elevation : werner's dairy cows grazed in the alps, at a high _ .
• terrain : italy's _ is predominantly rugged and mountainous
• conifer : a type of tree with needles and cones, still green in the middle of winter
• escarpment : the lorelei is a slate _ , rising 430 feet straight up from the rhine's eastern bank.
• meander : a pronounced curve in a river, commonly found in flat regions, such as the rhine in the northern european plain
• gorge : the rhine carved one of these through the central uplands
• topography : precise arrangement of hills, valleys, and ridges in a given area.