Unit 11
Two memorable weather features of the Battle of the Bulge
What is cold and snow
This lies to the west of Estonia
What is the Baltic Sea
This peninsula extends from Ukraine into the Black Sea
What is Crimea
This is the largest country in the world in terms of land area
What is Russia
This is the name of the first submarine to pass under the North Pole
What is the USS Nautilus
The term for the influence of geography on political activities
What is geopolitics
What is Sami
This Hungarian Catholic leader was an outspoken critic of totalitarian government and spent time in prison
Who is Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
This is the deepest lake in the world
What is Lake Baikal
This is how many of Ernest Shackleton's crew died during the expedition he led in an attempt to reach the South Pole
What is - none
These countries were the two great powers in the post-World War II world
What is the United States and the Soviet Union
The Faroe Islands are located here
What is north of Scotland
This effort encouraged the creation of a safe homeland for Jews, ideally in Palestine
What is Zionism
This is the longest river in Europe
What is the Volga
This is the main reason countries have a greater interest in exploring the Arctic
What is the possibility of significant deposit of oil, natural gas and other mineral deposits under the floor of the Arctic Ocean
The Marshall Plan did this
What is strengthened the nations of Europe politically and economically to resist Communism
Friends from Estonia developed the software for this Internet calling platform in 2003
What is Skype
This everyday language developed from the Jews' use of Hebrew, German, and other languages
What is Yiddish
This is the distinguishing role that geographers attribute to the Ural Mountains in world geography
What is they are the dividing line between Europe and Asia
This is the new territory of Canada that was taken from the Northwest Territories
What is Nunavut
The mountain ranges that the tulip originated
What are the Tien Shan Mountains of China and the Pamir Mountains of Russia
The part of the meridian of longitude which Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve helped measure is called this
This is a definition of culture
What is the way a certain group of people think and the way they do things
This is the swampy, grassy land that covers most of northern Siberia
What is 200 miles