The Russian core – Flashcards
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What type of climate is found along Russia's northern border?
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Tundra
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Why does the interior of Russia have more extreme variations in temperature and less precipitation than western Russia?
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It lacks the moderating affects of a major body of water.
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What Russian lake holds one-fifth of all unfrozen freshwater found on earth?
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Baikal
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During the soviet era, the Soviet Union operated as a ________ in which the government made key economic decisions
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Command economy
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What group came to power as a result of the Russian revolution of 1917?
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Communist
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What is the primary reason some environmental groups are opposed to the use of supertrawles
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They cause unnecessary deaths of millions of marine animals
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What is the term for the by-products of producing nuclear power and weapons?
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Nuclear wastes
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Why did the Soviet era leave a legacy of environmental pollution?
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Soviet leaders priority was to industrialize and they disregarded the damage it was causing.
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Overuse of fertilizers and _____ has polluted farmland and water in much of Russia.
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Pesticides
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What river is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power in Russia and is the longest river in Europe
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The Volga
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The rich black soil that supports agriculture in the southern part of the Northern European plain is called
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Chernozem
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Concerns about the damage it might cause to an ecologically pristine environment has generated concerns about proposals to begin
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Drilling for oil in the Artic
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The Russian ruler in 1700s who expanded Russia's empire, including acquiring a warm water port on the Black Sea
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Catherine The Great
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A nineteenth-century Russian policy requiring everyone in the empire to speak Russian and become Christian
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Russification
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The German philosopher who developed modern communism
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Karl Marx
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A country controlled by another country notably Eastern Europe countries controlled by the Soviet Union after world war 2
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Satellite
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A system of public ownership of all property and a classless society with equal sharing of wealth
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Communism
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A policy instituted by Mikhail Grobachev that promoted greater political and social openness in Russia
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Glasnost
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The Russian ruler in the 1600s who strengthened the military expand Russia's territory to make "a window on the west" and developed trade with Western Europe
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Peter the great
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A policy of reform and restructuring of the soviet government and economy in the 1980s begun by Mikhail Gorbachev
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Perestroika
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The trade of consumer goods not available under the government-sanctioned channels
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Black market
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The system in which businesses are owned privately not by the state and trade is competitive instead of completely regulated
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Market economy
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The title held by the ruler of Russia before 1917 revolution
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Czar
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Part of Grobachev's plan for reforming or restructuring the Soviet economy and government
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Perestroika
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A Ukrainian town where a nuclear accident occurred in 1986
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Chernobyl
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A Russian word meaning "forest" used to describe the northern biome that includes broad expanses of coniferous evergreen trees
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Taiga
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A natural barrier that marks the traditional boundary between European and Siberian Russia
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Ural Mountains
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The process of changing an economy away from state ownership of companies and industries to a competitive free market
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Privatization
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A new openness in areas of politics social issues and media
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Glasnost
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A territory that has long sought independence from Russia
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Chechnay
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A word meaning north used to describe the huge an environmentally important evergreen forests found primarily in the Russian core and Canada
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Boreal
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A natural boundary between Russia and its southern neighbors
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Caucuasus mountains
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The term used to describe semiarid grasslands is:
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Steppe
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The worlds worst nuclear disaster took place in________
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Chernobyl
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The body of water once fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers, and now only a fraction of its original size,is the:
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Aral Sea
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The Soviet Union broke up in:
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1991
