Ch. 14,15,16
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The __ is a layer of subsoil that is always frozen. | Permafrost
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| Progroms were the planned persecution and massacre of... | Jewish People
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| A sovkhoz was a ... | Large farm run like a factory with farm workers recieving wages.
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| Who was Leo Tolstoy? | A writer that wrote poems about Russian life.
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| The Kamchatka Peninsula is... | A peninsula that is a region of Siberia on the Eastern part of Russia.
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| What is the taiga? | A forest belt that covers 2/5 of European Russia and extends into much of Siberia.
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| The term tundra refers to a... | Vast, treeless plain that dominates the Russian landscapes.
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| Russia has __ because most of the country is far from any ocean. | Continental Climate
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| The main idea behind __ is that economic wealth should be distributed more evenly. | Communism
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| The move from __ is known as privatization. | Government ownership
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| Most rivers in Russia are __ much of the year. | Frozen
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| Soviet industrial growth led to serious... | Power for the Russians in wars.
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| What is a serf? | An enslaved workforce bound to the land and under the control of nobility
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| In general Russia has a __ climate | Subarctic
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| After the Soviet Union broke up, the government encouraged... | Independance and freedom
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| Perestroika: | A policy of economic restuction.
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| Kolkhoz: | A small farm worked by farmers who shared, to a degree, the farm's profits and production.
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| Kievan Rus: | A loose organization of city-states ruled by princes and started by Bulgaria.
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| Slavs: | A ethnic group in Russia that includes Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, and other Europeans.
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| Galsnot: | A policy of greater political openess.
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| Satellite State: | Counties controlled by the Soviet Union.
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| Bolsheviks: | A revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin.
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| Socialist Realism: | Artists had the duty to incorperate famous Russian events and eras into art.
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| Chernozem: | Rich, black soil in Southern Russia.
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| Catherine the Great: | An empress who in the 1700's expanded Russia, and got a warm-water port on the Black Sea.
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| Ethnic Group: | A group of people who share a common ancestry, language, religion, or set of customs, or a combination of these things.
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| Communism: | A philosophy developed by Karl Marx's ideas that called for a violent overthrow of government and the creation of a new society led by workers.
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| Black Market: | An illegal trade in which scarce or illegal goods are sold at prices higher than the government.
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| Czar: | Supreme ruler
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| Nuclear Waste: | The byproducts of producing nuclear power.
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| Cold War: | The struggle between the two opposing systems-communist and capitalist-for world influence and power.
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| Permafrost: | A layer of subsoil that is always frozen.
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| Atheism: | The belief that there is no god or supreme bieng.
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| Chernobyl: | A town 60 miles north of Keiv where a nuclear spill occured and killed 8,000 people.
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