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Twenty Questions. Subject: Chapter13-14. Twenty Questions. 1. Russia’s ____ river is the longest in Europe and is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power. Volga.
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Twenty Questions Subject: Chapter13-14
1. Russia’s ____ river is the longest in Europe and is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power • Volga
2. Ethnic Russians today are descendants of___ farmers and hunters who settled the Northern European Plain in the A.D. 600s? • Slav
3. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the government encouraged__ which favored the wealthy. • Privatization
4. The Ural Mountains mark the traditional boundary between? • European Russia and Siberian Russia
5. The title held by the ruler of Russia before the 1917 revolution? • Czar
6. Perestroika • 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? • Ural Mountains
9. New openness in areas of political, social issues, and media? • Glasnost
10. Many people in Eastern Europe burn wood to heat their homes because? • Its cheaper than electricity
11. The earliest people of Eastern Europe were? • Slavs, Germanic and Celtic
12. Most of Eastern Europe has a ___ climate? • Continental
13. Which two ethnic groups were most affected by ethnic cleansing during the 1990’s? • Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims
14. A broad lowland area north of the Carpathians covering most of Poland and many Baltic countries? • Northern European Plain
15. Yugoslavia only existed from the 1940s to the 1990s because • 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? • Topsoil and the vegetation it supports
17. An extension of the Swiss Alps along the Adriatic Sea characterized by barren and rocky ground? • Dinaric Alps
18. The breaking of larger countries or regions into smaller ones, often based on ethnicities? • Balkanization
19. An action to reverse the negative consequences of excessive logging? • Reforestation
20. On of the last undammed waterways in Europe and a popular tourist attraction? • Tara River
21. Buffer Zone • A natural region between countries with opposing ideologies or politics
