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Question 1

A layer of soil just below the Earth’s surface that stays permanently frozen

Answer 1

Permafrost

Question 2

A treeless zone dominated by small plants and animals that have adapted to polar conditions

Answer 2

Tundra

Question 3

The intentional destruction of a people

Answer 3

Genocide

Question 4

In the former Soviet Union, any one of various governing councils that made decisions at various levels

Answer 4

Soviet

Question 5

Which is an area of a city where a minority is forced to live called?

Answer 5

Ghetto

Question 6

This is the effect an investment has in multiplying related jobs throughout an economy

Answer 6

Multiplier effect

Question 7

A revolution without bloodshed

Answer 7

Velvet Revolution

Question 8

What type of economy is it when one central authority decides what goods will be produced?

Answer 8

Command economy

Question 9

Define glasnost

Answer 9

Openness

Question 10

Define perestroika

Answer 10

Economic restructuring

Question 11

This is the desire of a cultural group to rule themselves as a separate nation

Answer 11

Nationalism

Question 12

On this type of the farm, workers are paid by the government and they share a portion of the profits

Answer 12

Collective farm

Question 13

To break up into mutually hostile political units

Answer 13

Balkanize

Question 14

To formally incorporate into another country

Answer 14

Annex

Question 15

To give up the crown

Answer 15

Abdicate

Question 16

Where is St. basil’s cathedral located? Who had it built?

Answer 16

Moscow

Ivan the terrible

Question 17

In which country do they use the zloty? The ruble?

Answer 17

Poland

Russia

Question 18

What are the three small countries with oil reserves

Answer 18

The Baltics

Question 19

Who is “Europe’s hermit” and why?

Answer 19

Albania

They didn’t help anybody

Question 20

Who is the “Garden of Eastern Europe”?

Answer 20

Bulgaria

Question 21

What religion is Russia? What religion is predominant in the Central Asian countries?

Answer 21

Russian orthodox

Islam?

Question 22

What is a czar?

Answer 22

A Caesar or ruler

Question 23

What is inside the Kremlin?

Answer 23

Important buildings

Question 24

Which country had a velvet Revolution?

Answer 24

Czech, Or Czechoslovakia

Question 25

What is the full name of the Russia?

Answer 25

Russian Federation

Question 26

What and where is Chernobyl?

Answer 26

In Ukraine | It is a big city that had an explosion

Question 27

What separates Europe from Asia

Answer 27

Ural mountains

Question 28

What are four facts about lake baikal?

Answer 28

It is the deepest lake in the world more than 1 mile deep, it is the oldest lake, it holds 1/5 of the freshwater on earth

Question 29

What is happening in the Baltics in regards to their birthrates and death rates?

Answer 29

They are small and declining

Question 30

Who is Vladimir Putin?

Answer 30

The current president of Russia

Question 31

Two important things about Lenin

Answer 31

Collectivized farms, leader of the Bolsheviks

Question 32

Which countries were affected by Chernobyl?

Answer 32

Belarus, and Ukraine

Question 33

Two important things about Ivan

Answer 33

He had St. basil's built, he was the first Czar

Question 34

Define glasnost

Answer 34

Openness, People could speak freely

Question 35

Two important things about Stalin

Answer 35

He starved people, and he enlarged the military

Question 36

Define Perestroika

Answer 36

Economic restructuring

Question 37

Two important things about Peter

Answer 37

He traveled to Western Europe, moved capital to St. Petersburg

Question 38

From a Greek word that means "to burn something"

Answer 38

Holocaust

Question 39

Define tundra

Answer 39

Treeless plain in Arctic areas where short grasses and mosses grow

Question 40

Define genocide

Answer 40

The systematic killing of a people

Question 41

Economy where when authority decides things

Answer 41

Command economy

Question 42

List the regions and countries in each

Answer 42

Baltics- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Caucasus- Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia European border nations- Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova Central Asia- Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan Former Yugoslavia- Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia

Question 43

Who is the current president of Russia?

Answer 43

Vladimir Putin

Question 44

Who collectivized farms and was the leader of the Bolsheviks?

Answer 44

Lenin

Question 45

Who had St. basil's built, and was the first czar?

Answer 45

Ivan

Question 46

Who starved people and enlarged the military?

Answer 46

Stalin

Question 47

Who traveled to Western Europe and moved the capital to St. Petersburg?

Answer 47

Peter

Question 48

What is command economy?

Answer 48

An economy where when authority decides things

Question 49

What region are Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in?

Answer 49

Baltics

Question 50

What region are Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in?

Answer 50

Caucasus

Question 51

What region are Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova in?

Answer 51

European border nations

Question 52

What region are Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan in?

Answer 52

Central asia

Question 53

What region are Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Macedonia in?

Answer 53

Former Yugoslavia