World Geography final
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- glen
- a narrow valley
- Russian Core
- Most people in Russia live in the
- Syria
- Damascus is the capital of this country
- 15 Million
- Siberia is twice the size of the US but only has about how many people?
- Lebanon
- the US Marines were sent to this country to help protect freedoms, but they bombed so they left
- blight
- plant disease
- Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland
- The Nordic Nations include what countries?
- Potash
- The Israelis have built processing plants to extract____, which is used in explosives and fertilizers
- graben
- areas of land that have dropped down between faults
- glasnost
- allowed citizens and news media to say whatever they wanted
- Militia
- When the Muslim and Christian groups slit into different factions, each group had its own_____, or citizen army
- French and Spanish
- which two groups challenged the Russians but failed??
- Athens
- capital of Greece
- peat
- 1/6 of Ireland is covered by?
- Iraq
- Saddam Hussein used to the the leader of this country before he was violently executed
- geothermal energy
- energy produced from the heat of the earth's interior
- Paris
- the economic, political, and cultural capital of France
- ships could sail directly to its port
- London became one of the greatest commercial and shipping centers in the world mainly because
- ruble
- currency in Russia
- reparation
- money for war damages
- Mt. Kilimanjaro
- the highest peak in Africa
- impressionism
- style of painting popularized by Claude Money and Pierre Auguste Renior
- Florance
- the cultural center of Italy and was made famous during the Renaissance
- deserts, tropical rain forest, and grasslands
- the 3 dominant landforms in Africa
- Anarchy
- by the mid-1980's Lebanon was in state of_____ or lawlessness
- lignite
- soft brown coal
- Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Bay of Biscay
- the 3 bodies of water that surround Spain and Portuagl
- potato famine
- what was the episode that happened in 1840 in Ireland that caused many people to die?
- Moscow
- capital of Russia
- renaissance
- great period of art and learning that started in Italy in the 1300s
- Market is dependent by the law of supply and demand and command is controlled a single central govenment
- What is the difference a command and market economy?
- Iraq
- this country found oil in 1920 and spent billions of dollars developing it
- Rome
- capital of Italy
- seismic activity
- activity within the earth such as earthquakes and volcanoes
- Berlin
- Germany's capital and its largest city
- Tsunami
- giant sea waves
- Ural Mountains
- divide Europe and Asia
- abdicate
- to give up the crown
- East
- everything to the____ of the Ural Mountains is a part of Asia
- recession
- extended decline in business activity
- command economy
- What time of economy did the Soviet Union have?
- raise crops and farm
- what do most people in Africa do for a living?
- Nile
- longest river in the world
- Jerusalem
- capital of Israel
- true
- t/f temperatures in the desert can drop below freezing at night
- bogs
- areas of wet, spongy ground
- building must be built off the ground
- How does the permafrost affect construction in Siberia?
- Turkey
- Greece finally achieved its independence from who is 1829?
- Louvre
- the most famous gallery in France is located in Paris and it is called
- 30%
- what percentage of Africans are literate?
- Lebanon
- This country has had a series of Civil Wars erupt starting in 1958
- Embargo
- serve restriction on trade with other countries
- command
- the soviet union had a_____ economy
- dialect
- variations of a language that are unique to a region or community
- Bordeaux
- city in the southern region of France contains a busy seaport know for making wine grapes
- Madrid
- Capital of Spain
- inflation, privatization, health problems
- What are 3 consequences of the end of a command economy in Russia?
- Vatican City
- located in Italy and is home of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church
- Boris Yelstin
- was the first democratic president of Russia
- militia
- citizen army
- Fertile crescent
- An arc of rich land know as the _____ ran through Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, and Israel and this is where farming and the first civilization developed
- geothermal energy
- An important source of energy in Iceland
- Bordeaux
- river in Europe's busiest waterway
- federation
- a government structure in which some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments
- 660 million
- number of people that live in Africa
- Triple Alliance
- in 1882 Germany joined with Austria-Hungary and Italy to form the
- Gobi
- What is the largest desert in the world?
- hydroelectricity
- Where do people in N Italy get their power?
- permafrost
- layer of permanently frozen soil
- chernozom
- very rich soil, also know as "black earth"