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UKRAINE

Ukraine is situated in Eastern Europe. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1316 kilometres from east to west.

Ukraine covers an area of 603,550 square kilometres (233,030 sq mi), with a coastline of 2,782 kilometres (1,729 mi). It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders by Belarus Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary Romania and Moldova.

The landscape of Ukraine consists mostly of fertile steppes and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

Climate is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time. Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals and people, and it varies in different parts of the world.
The climate of any country is determined by its geographical position. Ukraine’s territory is in the temperate zone. In general, the country’s climate is moderately continental, subtropical only in the southern part of the Crimea. The differences in climate are caused3 by many factors: landscape, distance to seas and oceans
… . The climate varies not only from north to south but also from northwest to southeast as the warm air masses are moving from the Atlantic Ocean.
The average4 temperature in Ukraine varies between +5, +7 °C in the north and +11, +13 °C in the south. The coldest month is January with a record low of -42 °C. The
warmest month is July with a record high of +42 °C. Rain and snow range5 from about 75 cm a year in the west to about 35 cm in the south. The highest rainfall is in the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains.

But recently the climate has changed a lot. Some scientists think the weather is getting hotter. Winters have become warmer. Sometimes there is little snow in January, and there were winters when it rained on New Year’s Eve in Ukraine.
Can these changes be dangerous for our country or even planet? The Earth is millions of years old. We know many of its secrets. Yet, there is still much to learn.

... is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time.

Ukraine’s territory is in the … zone.

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UKRAINE

Ukraine is situated in Eastern Europe. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1316 kilometres from east to west.

Ukraine covers an area of 603,550 square kilometres (233,030 sq mi), with a coastline of 2,782 kilometres (1,729 mi). It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders by Belarus Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary Romania and Moldova.

The landscape of Ukraine consists mostly of fertile steppes and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

Climate is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time. Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals and people, and it varies in different parts of the world.
The climate of any country is determined by its geographical position. Ukraine’s territory is in the temperate zone. In general, the country’s climate is moderately continental, subtropical only in the southern part of the Crimea. The differences in climate are caused3 by many factors: landscape, distance to seas and oceans
… . The climate varies not only from north to south but also from northwest to southeast as the warm air masses are moving from the Atlantic Ocean.
The average4 temperature in Ukraine varies between +5, +7 °C in the north and +11, +13 °C in the south. The coldest month is January with a record low of -42 °C. The
warmest month is July with a record high of +42 °C. Rain and snow range5 from about 75 cm a year in the west to about 35 cm in the south. The highest rainfall is in the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains.

But recently the climate has changed a lot. Some scientists think the weather is getting hotter. Winters have become warmer. Sometimes there is little snow in January, and there were winters when it rained on New Year’s Eve in Ukraine.
Can these changes be dangerous for our country or even planet? The Earth is millions of years old. We know many of its secrets. Yet, there is still much to learn.

It is usually … on the New Year’s Eve in Ukraine.

The climate varies from ... .

UKRAINE

Ukraine is situated in Eastern Europe. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1316 kilometres from east to west.

Ukraine covers an area of 603,550 square kilometres (233,030 sq mi), with a coastline of 2,782 kilometres (1,729 mi). It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders by Belarus Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary Romania and Moldova.

The landscape of Ukraine consists mostly of fertile steppes and plateaus, crossed by rivers such as the Dnieper (Dnipro), Seversky Donets, Dniester and the Southern Bug as they flow into the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

Climate is the weather a certain place has over a long period of time. Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals and people, and it varies in different parts of the world.
The climate of any country is determined by its geographical position. Ukraine’s territory is in the temperate zone. In general, the country’s climate is moderately continental, subtropical only in the southern part of the Crimea. The differences in climate are caused3 by many factors: landscape, distance to seas and oceans
… . The climate varies not only from north to south but also from northwest to southeast as the warm air masses are moving from the Atlantic Ocean.
The average4 temperature in Ukraine varies between +5, +7 °C in the north and +11, +13 °C in the south. The coldest month is January with a record low of -42 °C. The
warmest month is July with a record high of +42 °C. Rain and snow range5 from about 75 cm a year in the west to about 35 cm in the south. The highest rainfall is in the Carpathian and Crimean Mountains.

But recently the climate has changed a lot. Some scientists think the weather is getting hotter. Winters have become warmer. Sometimes there is little snow in January, and there were winters when it rained on New Year’s Eve in Ukraine.
Can these changes be dangerous for our country or even planet? The Earth is millions of years old. We know many of its secrets. Yet, there is still much to learn.

The warmest month is ... .

The differences in climate are caused by many factors: ...

Some scientists think that the climate and the weather ...

There were winters when it ... on the New Year's Eve in Ukraine.

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Ukraine covers an area of 603,800 square kilometres.

Ukraine borders on Russia, Belarus, Moldova, the Gzech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Italy.

The major part of Ukraine is mountainous and only 5 % of the whole territory is flat.

The climate is mild and dry in the west and in the centre, warm and soft in the east and hot in the south.

Ukraine is situated in ... .

Ukraine borders on ... .

Ukraine is washed by the ... .

The main rivers in Ukraine are the ... .

The two mountainous areas are ... .

In     [-, a, the]Ukraine there are     [-, a, the]Carpathians. The highest peak is     [-, a, the]Hoverla. Ukraine borders    [by, on, at, in]Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, russia and belaurussia.

In Ukraine there are some                       [climate, mineral resources, geographical position, average temperature]: coal, iron ore, oil.

.                           [The mineral resources, The geographical position, The climate, The average temperature].. varies between +6C in the north and +12C in the south.

Ukraine streches from       [east, west, south]to       [east, west, south] for 1300 km.