Russia
North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia
North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia Continued
100
Mountains that form a natural dividing line between European Russia and Asian Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
100
70% of the world's known reserves of this mineral are found in this part of the world.
What is oil?
100
The three major religions of the world.
What is Islam, Christianity, Judaism?
200
The climate region that dominates Russia.
What is subarctic?
200
The most precious resource in the region.
What is water?
200
A country founded in 1948 and not Arab or Muslim.
What is Israel?
300
Where most of Russia's people live.
What is European (western) Russia?
300
The predominant religion in the region.
What is Islam?
300
Desert nomads.
What are bedouins?
400
The type of economy of the Soviet Union.
What is command economy?
400
The "Empty Quarter"
What is the Rub' al Khali Desert?
400
Means suitable for farming.
What is arable?
500
A policy of economic reconstruction started by Gorbachev during the Cold War.
What is perestroika?
500
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, part of the Fertile Crescent, home to the Sumerians.
What is Mesopotamia?
500
Founded in 1960; 11 countries are members; gives members more control over oil production and prices.
What is OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
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