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Random Russia Stuff
Past Units
100
The ocean North of Russia
What is the Arctic Ocean?
100
A reform which means openness
What is a glasnost?
100
Stories which shape the value of a society passed down through storytelling.
What is folklore?
100
Peasants, soldiers, convicts.
Who built the Trans-Siberian RR?
100
A bad thing that makes you move away from a place.
What is a push factor?
200
Permanently frozen ground which makes it difficult to drill for resources
What is permafrost?
200
A reform which meant restructuring the economy
What is perestroika?
200
Radioactive particles in the air after a nuclear explosion.
What is fallout?
200
Cold climate and frozen ground
What made it difficult to build the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
200
Many people work together in a community and their cultures blend together.
What is multiculturalism?
300
This set of mountains is the border between European Russia and Asian Russia
What are the Ural Mountains?
300
This man tried to reform the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
A type of economic system where the government controls the economy.
What is communism?
300
This transports Russia's oil and natural gas across long distances.
What are pipelines?
300
They make up the legislative branch.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
400
This is the physical feature directly East of the Ural Mountains
What is the Western Siberian Plain?
400
There were allies in WWII.
What are USA and USSR?
400
Import
What is bringing in goods from another country to sell?
400
Metaphorical end to the Cold War
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
400
Measures North and South
What is latitude?
500
Most of Russia's oil can be found here
What is Siberia?
500
Republics wanted independence
What is a cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union?
500
Export
What is sending goods to another country to sell?
500
Butter side down
What is communism?
500
________ lines are not parallels; ________ lines are parallel.
What is longitude and latitude?
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