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Geography
9th Grade
05/27/2008

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What language and ways of life did the Russian nobility of the 1700's adopt?
Definition

french language and other western European ways of life

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What threatened the Soviet Union after its fall?
Definition
Ethnic complex and sepre
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What group are Ethnic Russians part of?
Definition
Slabs-large group
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Who was the first crowned Czar of Russia? 
Definition
Ivan the terrible in 1533
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What is important about lake Baikal?
Definition
holds 1/5 of the world's freshwater
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Name three Russian major trading partners
Definition

U.S, Japan, European Union

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What is the Volga Valley the center of?
Definition
major manufactoring and industry
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What is the way of life for people living in the steppe climate zone called?
Definition
pastolism
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What is the infrastucture of many cities like Africa?
Definition
falling apart,full of disease, poverty, and cann't support their people
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What is the major enviornmental debate in the Palestinian Israeli conflict?
Definition
scarcity of water
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What two things are making population grow?
Definition
improved health care,and high birth rate
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How are most governments in North Africa,Southeast Asia, and Central Asia?
Definition
ruled by monarchs
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What percent of the worlds oil is found in North Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia?
Definition
67%
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Whats wrong with the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea?
Definition
most serious envirormental problems
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Why is tourism popular?
Definition
religous and cultural areas
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What are petro chemicals?
Definition
products derived from oil and natural gas
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What country uses canals to transport from the Jordan River?
Definition
Israel
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What is an oil reserve?
Definition
an available supply of oil
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What are the most abundant resources in South Asia?
Definition
minerals and water
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What are the Ethiopian Highlands?
Definition
part of the Eastern Highlands
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What is the Sahel?
Definition
the steppe south of the sahara
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What does the Great Rift Valley include?
Definition
volcanoes, and large lakes
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What is Lake Volta?
Definition
human made lake
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Why did the slave trade increase?
Definition

when the Europeans needed more workers in the Americas

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What is the population of Africa south of the Sahara unevenly distributed? 
Definition
It is unevenly distributed because of land and climate 
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Where do most people in Africa south of the Sahara live?
Definition
along the west African coast and the east coast of Southern Africa
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What influenced African music?
Definition
American jazz music
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Primary farming done in Africa?
Definition
subsistence
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Where are the most minerals deposists found in Africa?

Definition
along the Atlantic coast and south of the equator
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What has E-commerce?
Definition
enabled some Africans to sell their products directly over seas
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What are game reserves for?
Definition
one way to protect wild animals in Africa
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