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Aral Sea
Soviet Union
Land forms
Economic Review
Russian Culture
100
The Aral Sea looks like there is snow on the dry sea bed but instead it is this.
What is salt?
100
The type of economy that existed in the Soviet Union was called this.
What is command economy?
100
The largest country which stretches from the Baltic Sea and Black Sea to the Pacific is called this.
What is Russia?
100
The amount of total goods and services for a country is called this.
What is GDP?
100
The labor camps that people were forced into in Russia were called this.
What is a gulag?
200
The areas around the Aral Sea have a ________________, which means a high rate of death in infants.
What is infant mortality?
200
This is who created the Soviet Union.
Who is Lenin?
200
The highest point in Europe which is on Russia's southern border in the Caucasus Mountains is called this.
What is Mount Elbrus?
200
The average income within a country is called this.
What is per capita income?
200
The dolls that sit inside each other and are also called Matryashka are called this in English.
What is nesting dolls?
300
A disease that develops in the lungs and can kill if untreated is found around the Aral Sea.
What is tuberculosis?
300
What year did the Soviet Union dissolve?
What is 1991?
300
The river basin that has become Russia's industrial heartland is called this.
What is Volga River?
300
The fact based measure of how people live within a country.
What is standard of living?
300
80% of people in Russia practice this religion.
What is Russian Orthodox?
400
The _________ is salty because of the lack of proper water.
What is tea?
400
This is the side of the Cold War that the Soviet Union was on.
What is eastern side of Berlin?
400
The deepest lake in the world that is sometimes called the Jewel of Siberia is called this.
What is Lake Baikal?
400
The opinion based measure of how people live within a country.
What is quality of life?
400
Russian Easter is held at a _________( earlier or later) date than Americans hold Easter.
What is later?
500
80% of expectant mothers are this, which means they have a low iron count in their blood.
What is anemic?
500
After the break up of the Soviet Union, the economy became this type.
What is market economy?
500
That term that's used to describe the forest of mainly evergreen trees that covers half of Russia is called this.
What is taiga?
500
The resources within a country used to make a profit or sustain life.
What is natural resources?
500
This performing arts is the main one that Russia prides itself on using over 36 of its theaters for this.
What is ballet?