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Unit 5 Vocab
7-5 Petersen: Unit 5 Ch.14-15 (Russia and the Eurasian Republics)
| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| partly dry grassland often found on the edges of a desert | steppe see website: http://www.blossomingdesign.com/port/biomes/grasslandMain.html |
| vast(huge)treeless plain in high latitude (66.5 to 90 N or S Lat.- arctic/polar regions)climates in which the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer | tundra |
| permanently frozen lower layers of soil in the tundra in subartic(next to the artic) regions | permafrost |
| name for emperor(king)in ancient Russian times | czars |
| farm laborer(worker) who can be bought and sold along with the land | serfs |
| country that has changed its economy to manufacturing/business & less agriculture-farming & ranching | industrialize |
| country whose type of government has strong control over the economy and society-the government controls people | communist state |
| period(era/time)after WWII between the 1948s & late 1980s when the United States and Soviet Union(Soviets/USSR)competed for world influence(power)w/o actually fighting-they used treats of nuclear war | Cold War |
| Soviet (USSR) policy that loosened government controls and limited its government to move to free enterprise- 'restored power to the people' | perestroika |
| economic system (matches with a deomocrate/republic type of government)in which people start and run businesses with limited(little) government intervention (people own business, not the government) | free enterprise system |
| the freedom to express opinion about the government in Russia after 1991 fall of USSR | glasnost |
| the people (not the government) decide what goods and services to produce, how to produce them, and who will buy them | free market economy |
| the production of goods such as machinery, mining equipments, and steel | heavy industry |
| the production of consumer goods such as clothing, shoe, furniture, and household objects | light industry |
| energy from 'controlled' atomic reactions | nuclear energy |
| number of years than an average person is expected to live | life expectancy |
| a type government which is ruled with consent of citizens (people control the government,the gov. doesn't control the people--freedom to elect and not re-elect representatives) | democracy |
| power is shared between national and state goverments(Oklahoma State gov.& U.S. gov.) | federal republic |
| the group that controls the wealth and power(has the $$ or can get the $$),though NOT ALWAYS the largest group in numbers | majority groups |
| group of people who are different in some characteristics compared to the majority group | minority groups |
| products grown FOR SALE TO MAKE A PROFIT as exports | cash crops |
| cracks in the earth's crust | faults |
| huge forests of evergreen trees that grow in subartic regions(NEXT to the arctic-high latitudes 66.5 to 90 N or S) | taiga |
| people who move from place to place, commonly with herds of animals | nomads |
| fertile or green area in the desert watered by an underground spring | oasis |
| height above sea level (begins with e vs. an a; as in altitude) | elevation |
| reffering to a country with two main languages | bilingual |
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