Climate, Resources, and More
The Balkans and Former Soviet Republics
Interactions of People and Places and More
200

The largest climate in Eastern Europe

humid continental

200

The tendency of diverse territories to break up into small, hostile nations

Balkanization

200

Which has the worst air pollution - Eastern Europe or Western Europe?

Eastern Europe

400

Top grain crop

Rye

400

The largest country in the Balkans during the twentieth century

Yugoslavia

400

The worst single environmental disaster in history

Chernobyl

600

Turned into cooking oil or used as a nutritional supplement because of its fiber content

flaxseed

600

DAILY DOUBLE

Summarize the relationship between Russia and Ukraine from 1922 through 2014.

600

The narrow break in the Carpathian Mountains where the Danube River flows through

Iron Gate

800

They migrated to Europe, possibly from India, by the fourteenth century

Romani (gypsies)

800

The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo

800

DAILY DOUBLE

Explain how the Soviet system was ultimately responsible for the Chernobyl disaster.

1000

During and after this revolution did Ukraine experience fair elections and a shifted focus toward Western Europe and the EU

Orange Revolution

1000

The mass killing or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group

ethnic cleansing

1000

The Soviets built this over the top of the reactor to keep radiation from leaking from Chernobyl

sarcophagus