Climate, Resources, and More
The largest climate in Eastern Europe
humid continental
The tendency of diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations
Balkanization
Which has the worst air pollution - Eastern Europe or Western Europe?
Eastern Europe
Top grain crop
Rye
The largest country in the Balkans during the twentieth century
Yugoslavia
The worst single environmental disaster in history
Chernobyl
Turned into cooking oil or used as a nutritional supplement because of its fiber content
flaxseed
DAILY DOUBLE
Summarize the relationship between Russia and Ukraine from 1922 through 2014.
The narrow break in the Carpathian Mountains where the Danube River flows through
Iron Gate
They migrated to Europe, possibly from India, by the fourteenth century
Romani (gypsies)
The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain how the Soviet system was ultimately responsible for the Chernobyl disaster.
During and after this revolution did Ukraine experience fair elections and a shifted focus toward Western Europe and the EU
Orange Revolution
The mass killing or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group
ethnic cleansing
The Soviets built this over the top of the reactor to keep radiation from leaking from Chernobyl
sarcophagus