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Russia Vocabulary
Unit 5 World Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A term referring to the concept that increasing distances between places tend to reduce interactions among them. | Distance decay |
| An enormous farm in the Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin’s reign. | Collective farms |
| The selling of government-owned business to private citizens. | privatization |
| Black topsoil, one of the world’s most fertile soils. | chernozem |
| Permanently frozen ground. | permafrost |
| The term used for the temperate grassland region in the Northern Hemisphere. | steppe |
| A nearly continuous belt of evergreen coniferous forests across the Northern Hemisphere, in North America and Eurasia. | taiga |
| A region’s distance from the moderating influence of the sea. | continentality |
| The 4,000-mile route between China and the Mediterranean Sea, named for the costly silk acquired in China. | The Silk Road |
| region south of the Caucasus mountains consisting of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia | Transcaucasia |
| range that separates the Northern European and West Siberian plains, sometimes used as the dividing line between Europe and Asia p 346 | Ural Mountains |
| region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan | Central Asia |
| frigid arctic and subarctic region of Russia | Siberia |
| combined continent of Europe and Asia | Eurasia |
| rainfall not absorbed by the soil that runs into streams and rivers | Runoff |
| rail route of more than 5700 miles, transversing Russia from Moscow in the East to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast | Trans-Siberian Railroad |
| Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania | Baltic republics |
| emporer of Russia | Czar |
| overthrow of the czar in 1917 by the Communists | Russian Revolution |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Soviet Union | USSR |
| conflict between the United States and Soviet Union from the late 1940s to the 1980s; no open warfare resulted | Cold War |
| economic system in which the central government makes all important economic decisions, including production of goods and prices | Command Economy |
| dinner party, or occasion where people gather to eat or drink | Supra |
| light and portable tents used by nomads | Yurt |
| people who move from place to place with their animals in search of food, water, and grazing land | nomad |
| region between the Black and Caspian Seas straddling the Caucasus Mountains | Caucasus |
| Russian republic that has been the setting of violence since the 1990s. | Chechnya |
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