Chapter 15,16, and 17 Vocab

Question 0

Ural Mountains

Answer 0

the mountain ranges that separate the Northern European and West Siberian plains and used as the dividing line between Europe and Asia.

Question 1

Chernozen

Answer 1

Black topsoil, one of the world’s most fertile soils

Question 2

Eurasia

Answer 2

the combined continent of Europe and Asia

Question 3

Transcaucasia

Answer 3

a region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; located between the Caucasus Mountains and the borders of Turkey and Iran

Question 4

Central Asia

Answer 4

a region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Question 5

Siberia

Answer 5

a region of central and eastern Russia, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, known for its mineral resources and for being a place of political exile.

Question 6

Continentality

Answer 6

a region distance from the moderating influence of the sea

Question 7

Taiga

Answer 7

a nearly continuous belt of evergreen coniferous forests across the Northern Hemisphere, in North America and Eurasia

Question 8

runoff

Answer 8

a rainfall not absorbed by soil, which can carry pesticides and fertilizers from fields into rivers, endangering the food chain

Question 9

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Answer 9

a railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok; built between 1891 and 1903

Question 10

Baltic Republics

Answer 10

the countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea

Question 11

czar

Answer 11

the emperor of Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Question 12

Russian Revolution

Answer 12

the revolt of 1917, in which the Russian Communist party, led by V. I. Lenin, took control of the government from the czars

Question 13

USSR

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the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in 1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991.

Question 14

Cold War

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the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War 2, called “cold” because it never escalated into open warfare.

Question 15

Command Economy

Answer 15

a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of products. Also called a planned economy

Question 16

Collective Farm

Answer 16

an enormous farm in the Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin’s revenge

Question 17

Red Army

Answer 17

the name of the Soviet Union’s army

Question 18

Silk Road

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the 4,000-mile route between China and the Mediterranean Sea, named for the costly silk acquired in China

Question 19

Yurt

Answer 19

a tent of Central Asia’s nomad

Question 20

Caucasus

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a region that straddles the Caucasus Mountains and stretches between the Black and Caspian seas

Question 21

Chechnya

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one of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violent upheaval

Question 22

Nagorno-Karabakh

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the mountainous area of Azerbaijan, fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Question 23

Privatization

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the selling of government-owned business to private citizens

Question 24

Distance Decay

Answer 24

a term referring to the concept that increasing distances between places tend to reduce interactions among item