Mrs. NeilRegular-World Geography

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Russian Review

Study for your Russian test. The test is on______

Multiple choice, True/False, and Matching. Bring a number 2

Vocab. To know

Autarky / System in which a country tries to produce all the goods that it needs
Smelters / to melt or fuse (as ore) often with an accompanying chemical change usually to separate the metal-Responsible for most pollution in Russia
Abdicate / Resign as a monarch
LakeBaikal / Deepest Lake in the World- All of the Great Lakes combined
Taiga / Forestregion composed of evergreen trees
Gulag / Network of labor camps in the Old Soviet Union
Light Industry / Production of consumer goods
Icebreakers / Ships that break up ice in frozen waterways
Vladivostok / Located near the Sea of Japan-“meat grinder” city of WWII
Kurils / Islands were most of the freshwater fish come from
Shatter Belts / Zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts
Kamchatka / Long Far East Russian peninsula

Identify

SiberianDesert / Huge Russian desert found in the East of Russia. Hard to support agriculture or human life.
Ural Mountains / Major mountains range Most of Russia’s population is to the West of the Urals’
Kola Peninsula / Dirtiest place on the globe-factories pump billions of waste full of nickel into the atmosphere
Chernobyl / Nuclear power plant that exploded-Worst Nuclear disaster in Human history
LakeKarachi / Fresh water lake-Russia stored nuclear waste in it. Contaminated water
Rus / Scandinavian traders who were some of Kiev’s early leaders; also the word from which Russia gets its’ name
Capitalism / an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Eurasia / Combination of Europe and Asia
  1. What is a negative consequence of switching from communism to democracy?

High jobless rate. Starvation. Time of “depression” as the generation makes the switch

2. What is command economy?

An economic system in which the government decides what to produce, where to make it, and what price to charge.

3. What is a Free Market economy?

A.K.A – Free enterprise

System that lets competition among business determined the price of products

4. Why is the Aral Sea shrinking?

Removed the 2 main water sources from the river to irrigate the desert.

5. Why is the Kola Peninsula considered the “dirtiest place on the globe”

All the factories (containing nickel) that pump out volumes of pollution

6. Why do most people live west of the Ural Mountains?

More precipitation-closer to Europe (trading post)

7. Who are the Mongols?

a member of any of a Mongoloid racial stock group of traditionally pastoral peoples.

Ruled over the Slavs for 400 Years.

8. How did negative Soviet practices affect the Russian people?

Has driven Russia to “low” performing. Unable to compete with outside countries.

Not responding to the health needs of the population makes Russians have a low life expectancy. High infant mortality.

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