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social studies 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Steppe | a dry, grassy plain |
| Pesticide | any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life |
| Ural Mountains | a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea |
| Caspian Sea | the largest inland body of water in the world, |
| Propaganda | ommunication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda |
| Mongol Empire | pastoral nomads of the Asian steppes |
| Russian Revolution | one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century. |
| Contaminate | make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance. |
| Permafrost | any ground that remains completely frozen — 32°F (0°C) or colder — for at least two years straight. |
| Peat | a dark brown or blackish material that is the remains of plants partly decayed in water and is sometimes dug up and dried for use as fuel |
| Black Sea | Northern Sea |
| Scorched Earth Policy | a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war |
| Communism | a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, |
| Silk Roads | a trading route dating back to the second century B.C. |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East |
| Half-life | The amount of time that it takes one half of the atoms present to decay |
| Tundra | the coldest of all the biomes. |
| Methane | a gas composed of carbon and hydrogen |
| North Atlantic Drift | |
| Secular | |
| Socialism | |
| Peter the Great | |
| Kremlin | |
| Fallout | |
| Taiga | |
| Greenhouse Gas | |
| Siberia | |
| Collective Farm | |
| serf | |
| cold war | |
| Chernobyl | |
| pipe line | |
| loess | |
| animal biome | |
| Gobi desert | |
| shogun | |
| archipelago | |
| Tibetan Plateau | |
| the great wall of china | |
| lost decade | |
| typhoon | |
| ring of fire | |
| martial law | |
| Confucianism | |
| DMZ Zone | |
| Kanto Plain | |
| cultural Revolution | |
| Pagoda |