Chapters 15-17

Question 0

Czar

Answer 0

Emperor of Russia prior to the Russian revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922

Question 1

Baltic Republics

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Russian revolution

Answer 2

Revolt of 1917 in which Russian communist party, led by V. I. Lenin, took control of the government from the Czars

Question 3

USSR

Answer 3

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Soviet Union

Question 4

Cold War

Answer 4

War between US and USSR after WWII; called cold because there was never any open warfare

Question 5

Command economy

Answer 5

Economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government

Question 6

Collective farms

Answer 6

An enormous farm in the Soviet Union where a large team of laborers worked during Joseph Stalin’s reign

Question 7

Chernozem

Answer 7

Black Earth; very fertile soil found in Russia

Question 8

Ural Mountains

Answer 8

Dividing line between Europe and Asia

Question 9

Transcaucasia

Answer 9

Region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Question 10

Siberia

Answer 10

Part of Russia that’s on Asia

Question 11

Central Asia

Answer 11

Region that consists of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Question 12

Runoff

Answer 12

Water that is not absorbed by the soil; it may contain fertilizer and other chemicals harmful to the environment

Question 13

Continentality

Answer 13

A regions distance from the moderation influence of the sea

Question 14

Red Army

Answer 14

The soviet military

Question 15

Supra

Answer 15

A dinner party

Question 16

Silk Road

Answer 16

Route between china and Mediterranean Sea

Question 17

Great game

Answer 17

Struggle between British and Russian empires over control of Central Asia

Question 18

Nomads

Answer 18

People with no permanent homes

Question 19

Yurts

Answer 19

Tents of central Asia’s nomads

Question 20

Caucasus

Answer 20

Caucasia; region that straddles the Caucasus mountains

Question 21

Chechnya

Answer 21

A republic that remained part of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union

Question 22

Nagorno-Karabakh

Answer 22

Mountainous region of Azerbaijan

Question 23

Privatization

Answer 23

Selling of government owned businesses to private citizens

Question 24

Distance decay

Answer 24

Concept that states increasing distance between places tend to reduce interactions

Question 25

Cyanide

Answer 25

a deadly poison, flowed into the Tisza River in Hungary.

Question 26

European Environmental Agency

Answer 26

provides the EU with reliable information about the environment

Question 27

Particulates

Answer 27

A very small particle of liquid or solid matter

Question 28

Smog

Answer 28

A brown haze hat occurs when gases released by burning fossil fuel react with sunlight

Question 29

Ozone

Answer 29

A chemical created when burning fossil fuel with sunlight, a form of oxygen

Question 30

Slobodan Milošević

Answer 30

tried to increase Serbia’s power over the rest of Yugoslavia.