Transcript Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions
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1. Russia’s ____ river is the longest in Europe and
is important as a transportation route and source of
hydroelectric power

Volga
2. Ethnic Russians today are descendants
of___ farmers and hunters who settled the
Northern European Plain in the A.D. 600s?

Slav
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1991, the government encouraged__ which
favored the wealthy.

Privatization
4. The Ural Mountains mark the
traditional boundary between?

European Russia and Siberian Russia
5. The title held by the ruler of
Russia before the 1917 revolution?

Czar
6. Perestroika

Part of Gorbachev’s plan for reforming or
restructuring the soviet economy and
government.
7. A Ukrainian town where a
nuclear accident occurred in
1986?
Chernobyl
8. A natural barrier that marks the
traditional boundary between European and
Siberian Russia economy?

Ural Mountains
9. New openness in areas of
political, social issues, and
media?

Glasnost
10. Many people in Eastern Europe
burn wood to heat their homes
because?

Its cheaper than electricity
11. The earliest people of Eastern
Europe were?

Slavs, Germanic and Celtic
12. Most of Eastern Europe has a
___ climate?

Continental
13. Which two ethnic groups were
most affected by ethnic cleansing
during the 1990’s?

Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims
14.
A broad lowland area north of the Carpathians
covering most of Poland and many Baltic
countries?

Northern European Plain
15. Yugoslavia only existed from
the 1940s to the 1990s because

Its corrupt government was removed and the
territory was absorbed by neighboring
countries.
16. Removal of which essential
elements leads to erosion that can
cause desert-like conditions?

Topsoil and the vegetation it supports
17. An extension of the Swiss Alps along the
Adriatic Sea characterized by barren and rocky
ground?

Dinaric Alps
18. The breaking of larger
countries or regions into smaller
ones, often based on ethnicities?

Balkanization
19. An action to reverse the
negative consequences of
excessive logging?

Reforestation
20. On of the last undammed
waterways in Europe and a
popular tourist attraction?

Tara River
21. Buffer Zone

A natural region between countries with
opposing ideologies or politics