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Russia+Vocab
SWHS GEO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chernozem | one of the worlds most fertile soils, found in the Northern European plain, also called "black earth" |
| Ural Mountains | separates the European continent and the Asia continent |
| Eurasia | some people consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent |
| Siberia | the part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia, very cold, inhospitable |
| Continentality | hundreds of miles from any influence of the oceans/seas |
| Taiga | the largest forest on earth |
| Runoff | rainfall not absorbed by the soil that runs into streams, lakes, and rivers |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | railway that links Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok |
| Baltic Republics | include Estonia, Lativa and Lithuania |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, known as the Soviet Union |
| Cold War | tension between the US and the Soviet Union, spreading of communism and diplomatic conflicts |
| Command Economy | one in which the central government makes all important economic decisions |
| Collective Farms | where large teams of workers gathered to work on enormous farms |
| Red Army | the name of the Soviet military |
| Nomads | are people who have no permanent homes |
| Russian Mafia | group of organized crime that created its own economy and controlled many business |