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Geography
9th Grade
10/01/2009

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Term
Worker's holiday in Russia
Definition
May Day
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___% of the population lives in 2/3 of Russia's land area
Definition
15
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Made up of more than ____ ethnic groups
Definition
70
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Southwestern Russia is the home of ____ and ____ people
Definition
caucasion and turkish people
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biggest ethnic group is
Definition
slavs
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____ had a fire in 1986
Definition
Chernobyl
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Soil is polluted because of _____
Definition
too much fertilizer, pesticides, and toxic waste dumps
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Water is polluted by____
Definition
fertilizer run off, sewage and radioactive material
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Air is polluted by____
Definition
burning coal, industries, and vehicle emmisions
Term
taiga
Definition
boreal forest belt that covers 2/5 of western Russia
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tundra
Definition
a vast treeless plain
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Soviet Union lasted from ____ to ____
Definition
1922 (by the bolsheviks) to 1991
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River people settled along
Definition
Lena River
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Russia's capital
Definition
Moscow
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Loose band of city-states
Definition
Kievan Rus
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Ruler of Moscovy who brought many Slav territories under his rule as what is now known as Russia
Definition
Prince Ivan III (the great)
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1st crowned czar
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Prince Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
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Peasants who worked
Definition
serfs
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New capital
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St. Petersburg
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Gained warm-water port
Definition
Empress Catherine the Great
Term
Reform that encouraged people to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Definition
Russification
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Socialism
Definition
belief that calls for greater economic equality in society (no classes)
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Supporter of Socialism
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Karl Marx
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Last czar ruler
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Czar Nicholas II
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First communist ruler
Definition
Lenin
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Took over after Lenin's death
Definition
Stalin
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satellites
Definition
countries controlled by the soviet union
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cold war
Definition
struggle between U.S. and Soviet Union for world influence and power, using only the threat of violence. War of Propiganda.
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cold war
Definition
struggle between U.S. and Soviet Union for world influence and power, using only the threat of violence. War of Propiganda.
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First elected president of Russian republic
Definition
Yeltsin
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Yeltsin's successor
Definition
Putin
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