Geography 13
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- former Yugoslav republic bordering Greece
- Macedonia
- Many people spend their vacations at Lake Balaton in
- Hungary
- protected areas for plants and wildlife
- nature preserves
- harmful chemicals in teh air and water
- pollution
- The most important waterway in Ukraine is the
- Dnieper River
- Hungary depends on it for trade and transportation
- Danube River
- capital city of Slovakia
- Bratislava
- capita city of Belarus
- minsk
- The most populous of the Baltic republics is
- Lithuania
- people who flee to another country to escape danger or disaster
- refugees
- Today about 90 percent of Hungary's 10 million people are descended from
- Magyars
- Both Bulgaria and Romania have coastlines on the
- Black Sea
- Romania's major economic activities include farming, manufacturing, and
- mining
- A new democratic government was formed in Poland
- in 1989
- Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until it became independent
- in 1991
- Which of the following is not a former Yugoslave republic
- Moldova
- hot mineral springs with healthful waters
- spas
- capital city of Latvia
- Riga
- Two mountain ranges span most of Bulgaria - the Balkan Mountains and the
- Rhodope Mountains
- Moldova was a part of this country
- Romania
- Gdansk, a city on the Baltic Sea, is Poland's
- important shipbuilding city
- Lithuania, like Latvia and Estonia, regained independence after the collapse of
- the Soviet Union
- transfer of ownership from the government ot individuals
- privatize
- The Romanian Language comes from
- Latin
- Polish port on the Baltic Sea
- Gdansk
- Muslim houses of worship
- mosques
- Slovakia and the Czech Republic once formed a larger country called
- Czechoslovakia
- The 10.2 million people of Belarus are mostly Eastern Orthodox
- Slavs
- capital city of Croatia
- Zagreb
- Communish dictator who once ruled Yugoslavia
- Joseph Broz Titl
- Lithuania is the largest Baltic nation both in land size and in
- population
- After 50 years of rule by the Soviet Union, Latvia's and Estonia's populations include
- Russians
- rock that contains oil
- oil shale
- The Poles belong to a larger ethnic group called
- Slavs
- capital city of Poland
- Warsaw
- Polands location and lack of mountains on its east and west borders have made it an easy target for
- invading armies
- a hardened fluid of pine trees, used to make jewelry
- amber
- country once formed by the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Czechoslovakia
- Most of Bulgaria's 8.2 million people trace their ancestry to
- the Slavs
- Today the economies of the Baltic nations are
- free market economies
- The eastern region of Moldova produces about 80 percent of the country's
- electricity
- capital city of Hungary
- Budapest
- wet ground with decaying plants that can be dried and used as fuel
- peat
- In Hungary, the Danube River separates the Great Hungarian Plain and
- Transdunubia
- Most of the people of Albania are
- Muslim
- low, swampy lands
- bogs
- The Estonian language is related to
- Finnish and Hungarian
- What type of climate does most of Albania have?
- Mediterranean
- Slovakia and the Czech Republic became two separate independent nations
- in 1993
- About 30 percent of the population of Latvia is made up of
- Russians
- capital of Macedonia
- Skopje
- strong government control over the economy and society as a whole
- communist state
- Polish church leader who became Pope John Paul II
- Karol Wojtyla
- Mountainous and poor, Bosnia nad Herzegovina has an economy based mainly on crops and
- livestock
- The ancestors of the Czechs were
- Slavic groups
- capital city of Estonia
- tallin
- What two regions form Yugoslavia today?
- Serbia and Montenegro
- the "breadbasket of Europe"
- Ukraine
- The capital and chief city of Moldova is
- Chisinau
- a country's policy forcing people from other ethnic groups to leave their homes
- ethnic clensing
- mountains forming Poloan's border with Slovakia
- Carpathian Mountains
- low swampy lands
- bogs
- mineral used to make aluminum
- Bauxite
- One of Poland's most important industries is
- coal mining
- stringed instrument
- bandura
- gently rolling, partly wooded plain
- steppe
- Through what country in Eastern Europe does the Vistula River flow and then empty into the Baltic Sea?
- Poland
- capital city of the Czech Republic
- Prague
- people who move from place to place with herds of animals
- nomads