Twenty Questions Subject Chapter 13 14 Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions Subject: Chapter 13 -14

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1. Russia’s ____ river is the longest in Europe and is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power l Volga

2. Ethnic Russians today are descendants of___ farmers and hunters who settled the Northern European Plain in the A. D. 600 s? l Slav

3. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the government encouraged__ which favored the wealthy. l Privatization

4. The Ural Mountains mark the traditional boundary between? l European Russia and Siberian Russia

5. The title held by the ruler of Russia before the 1917 revolution? l Czar

6. Perestroika l Part of Gorbachev’s plan for reforming or restructuring the soviet economy and government.

7. A Ukrainian town where a nuclear accident occurred in 1986? Chernobyl

8. A natural barrier that marks the traditional boundary between European and Siberian Russia economy? l Ural Mountains

9. New openness in areas of political, social issues, and media? l Glasnost

10. Many people in Eastern Europe burn wood to heat their homes because? l Its cheaper than electricity

11. The earliest people of Eastern Europe were? l Slavs, Germanic and Celtic

12. Most of Eastern Europe has a ___ climate? l Continental

13. Which two ethnic groups were most affected by ethnic cleansing during the 1990’s? l Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims

14. A broad lowland area north of the Carpathians covering most of Poland many Baltic countries? l Northern European Plain

15. Yugoslavia only existed from the 1940 s to the 1990 s because l Its corrupt government was removed and the territory was absorbed by neighboring countries.

16. Removal of which essential elements leads to erosion that can cause desert-like conditions? l Topsoil and the vegetation it supports

17. An extension of the Swiss Alps along the Adriatic Sea characterized by barren and rocky ground? l Dinaric Alps

18. The breaking of larger countries or regions into smaller ones, often based on ethnicities? l Balkanization

19. An action to reverse the negative consequences of excessive logging? l Reforestation

20. On of the last undammed waterways in Europe and a popular tourist attraction? l Tara River

21. Buffer Zone l A natural region between countries with opposing ideologies or politics