Southern Europe
This country in Southern Europe is shaped like a high heel high knee boot
Italy
Iceland’s geysers and hot springs produce great amounts this type of energy. These factory plants provide heat for buildings and homes throughout the country.
Geothermal
Usually because of ethnocentrism, this is the effort to remove all members of an ethnic group from a country or region
ethnic cleansing
Russia’s population is falling. More Russians are dying than are being born, in part because many Russians cannot afford good health care. Russia's population declined by this much between 2000 and 2010?
about 5 million
This type of government is ruled by religious leaders
theocracy
Greece's highest population, also it's capital
Athens
In 1939 Germany attacked Poland, starting World War II. Soon, Germany had conquered much of Europe. Through genocide, the ethnocentric Nazis sought to kill all European Jews in this event.
Holocaust
From Islam, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity, this is how the top three religions in the Balkans are ranked from largest to smallest
Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Islam
This rail line in Russia extends about 5,800 miles (9,330 km) from Moscow to Vladivostok (all the way across Russia); it is the longest single rail line in the world.
Trans-Siberian Railway
this means a limit on trade
embargo
The Romans helped spread this major world religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
Christianity
The Dutch have long used technology to modify their natural environment. For hundreds of years, they have been “creating” land by reclaiming it from the sea. These features are lands reclaimed from the sea
Polders
Yugoslavia became a country after World War I. The country broke apart because of this issue.
conflict between different groups
This Russian land (noncontiguous from Russia) is the country's only Baltic seaport that is free of ice all year. This important port provides Russia with year-round access to profitable European markets and trade
Kaliningrad
It was between this decade (10 year time span) that there was the greatest increase in oil production in Saudi Arabia
1970 to 1980
A small country in Rome, Italy that is the head of the Roman Catholic Church
Vatican City
Millions of years ago, much of Norway was covered with glaciers. As the glaciers flowed slowly downhill, they carved these, long, winding channels into Norway’s coastline. Because water in these features is warm, they do not freeze. For centuries, people have used them to travel during the winter when ice and snow made travel over land difficult
fjords
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland all still feel the effects of decades of Soviet rule. The economies of all four countries suffered because the Soviets did not build this, or the set of resources, like roads and factories, that a country needs to support economic activities
infrastructure
The Soviet Union used these types of posters, which are information designed to promote a specific cause or idea by influencing people's thoughts and beliefs. For example, Soviet posters often promoted the greatness and power of the Soviet state, its leaders, and their Communist policies.
Propaganda
This religion was founded in Arabia by Muhammad, based on submitting to God (Allah) and on messages Muslims believe God gave to Muhammad
Islam
Southern Europe is known for this type of climate, which features warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters
Mediterranean
This type of river is deep and wide enough for ships to use, and is important for trade and travel.
navigable river
Which of the below is not true of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident? <the communist Soviet Union notified the world on the day of the accident><thousands died from radiation induced cancers><radiation poisoned millions of acres of forest><released huge amounts of radiation into the air>
the communist Soviet Union notified the world on the day of the accident
This radical Russian Communist group seized power from the czar in 1917. In 1922 they formed a new country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or the Soviet Union.
Bolsheviks
Farmers took water from the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya rivers to irrigate cotton fields. Less water flowed into this sea than evaporated from it. The lake’s former seafloor became a desert of sand and salt.
Aral Sea