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Russia Vocab

7th Grade SS

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Pesticide A chemical that kills harmful insects and weeds.
Landmass A very large area of land.
Greenhouse gas A gas that traps the suns heat over earth.
Permafrost Permanently frozen ground.
Hydroelectric power A source of energy that uses flowing water to produce.
Arid Very dry, having almost no rainfall.
Taiga The largest forest area that stretches through northern Russia, Canada, and other northern countries.
Peat The material from very old decayed plants that burns like coal.
Steppe A very large plain of dry grassland.
Methane A colorless, odorless natural gas released from.
Tundra Flat treeless land found in arctic and subarctic regions.
Nonrenewable fossil fuel A source of energy such as oil, natural gas, or coal that is limited supply.
Semiarid Somewhat dry, with very little rainfall.
Socialism A system of government in which the government controls economic resources.
Tribute Fees paid to another ruler or country for protection as a token of submission.
Invader. An enemy who enters a country by force.
Propaganda Information made to influence people's opinions or advance an organization or party's ideas.
State A defined territory with its own government.
Czar Term used for an emperor in Russia.
Communism A system of government in which a single political party controls the government and the economy.
Scorched earth policy In 1812 practice in which Russian troops, as they retreated from Napoleon's army, burned crops and resources that could supply the enemy.
Reign The period of rule for a king, queen emperor or empress.
Secular Worldly, not connected to a religion.
Serf From the 1500s to the 1800s a poor Russian or European peasant farmer who rented land from a landlord and had few rights.
Collective farm In the soviet union a large farm where workers grew food to be distributed to the entire population.
Strike Work stoppage by employees who refuse to work.
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