5th Six Weeks Vocab.

Question 0

Define Environmentalist

Answer 0

Person concerned with the quality of the environment

Question 1

Define Acid rain

Answer 1

Precipitation of airborne acidic chemicals mixed with water

Question 2

Define Chernozem

Answer 2

A rich, black soil

Question 3

Define Taiga

Answer 3

A forest belt that covers two-fifths of European Russia and much of Siberia

Question 4

Define Steppe

Answer 4

A temperate grassland area with dry summers and long, dry winters

Question 5

Define Sovereignty

Answer 5

Self-rule

Question 6

Define Czar

Answer 6

Supreme ruler

Question 7

Define Serfs

Answer 7

An enslaved workforce under the control of a class of nobility

Question 8

Define Socialism

Answer 8

A belief that calls for greater economic equality in society

Question 9

Define Bolsheviks

Answer 9

A revolutionary group in Russia, led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Question 10

Define Communism

Answer 10

A philosophy that called for the creation of a new society led by workers

Question 11

Define Satellite

Answer 11

A nearby country controlled by the Soviet Union

Question 12

Define Cold War

Answer 12

The struggle between the communist and capitalist systems for world influence and power

Question 13

Define Patriarch

Answer 13

The leader of Russian Church

Question 14

Define Icon

Answer 14

Religious image or symbol

Question 15

Define Command economy

Answer 15

An economy in which the government makes most economic decisions

Question 16

Define Market economy

Answer 16

An economy in which businesses are privately owned

Question 17

Define Radioactive material

Answer 17

Toxic waste left over from generating nuclear power

Question 18

Define Industrial Capitalism

Answer 18

An economic system in which profits are used to expand companies

Question 19

Define Communism

Answer 19

A philosophy that called for a society in which workers control industrial production

Question 20

Define Reparations

Answer 20

Payment for damages

Question 21

Define Holocaust

Answer 21

The mass killing of more than 6 million European Jews

Question 22

Define Cold War

Answer 22

A power struggle between the communist world and the noncommunist world

Question 23

Define European Union

Answer 23

An organization whose goal was a united Europe in which goods, services, and workers could move freely among member countries

Question 24

Define Maastricht Treaty

Answer 24

The treaty that set up the European Union

Question 25

Define Language Family

Answer 25

A group of related languages that developed from an earlier language

Question 26

Define Good Friday Peace Agreement

Answer 26

An agreement that allowed Protestant and Roman Catholic communities to share political power in Northern Ireland

Question 27

Define Romanticism

Answer 27

Style of art that focused on the emotions, stirring historical events, and the exotic

Question 28

Define Welfare State

Answer 28

Country that offers education, health care, and pension programs to their citizens

Question 29

Define Realism

Answer 29

Style of art that focused on the accurate depiction of everyday life

Question 30

Define Impressionists

Answer 30

French painters who tried to capture immediate impressions of the natural world

Question 31

Define Heavy Industry

Answer 31

The manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment

Question 32

Define Light Industry

Answer 32

Products, such as textiles or processed food, that do not require raw materials

Question 33

Define State Farms

Answer 33

Government-owned farms in which farmers were paid wages

Question 34

Define Genetically Modified Food

Answer 34

Food prepared from crops that have had their genes altered

Question 35

Define Organic Farming

Answer 35

Farming that uses natural substances instead of fertilizers and chemicals to increase crop yields

Question 36

Define Dikes

Answer 36

Large banks of earth and stone that hold back water

Question 37

Define Polder

Answer 37

Drained area of land

Question 38

Define Glaciation

Answer 38

The process in which glaciers form and spread

Question 39

Define Fjord

Answer 39

Narrow steep sided inlets carved out by glaciers

Question 40

Define Foehn

Answer 40

Dry wind that blows down from the mountains

Question 41

Define Mistral

Answer 41

A strong north wind from the Alps

Question 42

Define Sirocco

Answer 42

Dry wind from North Africa

Question 43

Define Chaparral

Answer 43

Shrubs and small trees

Question 44

Define Ethnic Group

Answer 44

People with a shared ancestry, language, customs, and often religion

Question 45

Define Ethnic Cleasning

Answer 45

The expelling of an ethnic group from a particular area

Question 46

Define Refugee

Answer 46

Person who flees to a foreign country for safety

Question 47

Define City-states

Answer 47

Separate, independent communities

Question 48

Define Middle Ages

Answer 48

The period between ancient and modern times

Question 49

Define Feudalism

Answer 49

A system in which lords gave land to other nobles in return for pledges of loyalty

Question 50

Define Crusades

Answer 50

A series of religious wars over control of Palestine

Question 51

Define Renaissance

Answer 51

A 300-year period of discovery, learning, and creative activity

Question 52

Define Reformation

Answer 52

A religious movement that lessened the power of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 53

Define Enlightenment

Answer 53

A movement that emphasized the importance of reason and questioning traditions