Terms-Geography,The World & Its People Ch. 14 & 15
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- Tundra
- broad, dry treeless plain in the high latitudes
- taiga
- huge, subartic evergreen forest in Northern Europe, Asia and North America
- permafrost
- permanently frozen lower layers of soil in Arctic regions
- communisim
- authoritarian political system in which the central government controls the economy and society
- command economy
- economic system in which the government owns land resources and means of production and makes all economic decisions
- heavy industry
- production of inductrial goods such as machinery and military equipment
- light industry
- production of consumer goods, such as food products and household goods
- free enterprise system
- economic system based on free enterprise
- consumer goods
- products for personal use such as clothing and household goods
- czar
- title of the formal emperors of Russia
- serf
- farm laborer bound to the land the worked
- glasnost
- Russian term for "openness" used by president Gorbachev in the late 1980's
- ethnic group
- people who share a common cultural background including ancestry and language
- steppe
- dry treeless grasslands often found at the edge of deserts
- nature presrve
- land that is set aside by a government to protect plants and wildlife
- fault
- crack in the rocks of the earth's crust along which movement occurs
- food processing
- industry in which foods are prepared and packaged for sale
- nomad
- a person who moves from place to place often with herds of sheep or cattle
- oasis
- place with water and green vegetaion surrounded by desert