Chapter 18-20 Review

The Fertile farm region east of Danube River in Hungary is called ______

'the breadbasket of Europe"

How many time zones does Russia stretch across?

10

Slovakia: Year of Independence

1993, when Czechoslovakia was peacefully divided

How many countries were created when Yugoslavia broke up?

5

Which country, known for decades as "Europe's hermit," is now ending its isolation?

Albania

Which nation had more than one fifth of its farmland contaminated by radiation blown across it after the accident as Chernobyl?

Belarus

Boarder Nations

Belarus Moldova Ukraine

The Czech Republic: Description of Regions

Bohemia in western half contains mines and industries and capital city of Prague; Moravia in eastern half has outdated industries, including coal and steel.

Which country was embroiled in war between three different ethnic groups after declaring its independence?

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Which country is known as the garden of Eastern Europe because of its warm summers and mild winters?

Bulgaria

Identify the republic in the Caucasus region where intense fighting recently occurred when it tried to gain independence from Russia.

Chechnya

Who fell from power in Poland because they lacked popular support?

Communists

Central Europe and Northern Eurasia: Physical Characteristics (2)

Danube River Lake Baikal

The language of which nation is closely related to Finnish?

Estonia

The Ural Mountains divide ____ and _____.

Europe; Asia

Who fled Poland when the Soviets expanded Poland's western border?

Germans

What is the velvet revolution?

IN 1993, it divided *peacefully* into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic- also called Slovakia.

What are three problems that the transportation from a command economy to make a market economy has caused Russia?

Inflation unemployment, caused by privatization falling level of health care

Who were murdered in camps, making up half the deaths?

Jews

Which country was a key point of conflict in the late 1990s?

Kosovo

Which three nations on the coast of the Baltic Sea were officially republics of the Soviet Union until it broke apart in 1991?

Lithuania Latvia Estonia

Which country experienced conflict based on its national language policy?

Macedonia

Central Europe and Northern Eurasia: Ethnic Groups (2)

Magyars Slavs

Hungary: Dominant Ethnic Groups

Magyers

What Soviet leader began radical reform in the late 1980s?

Mikhail Gorchev

Which nation has a population mostly of Romanian descent and continues to have strong ties to Romania?

Moldova

What is the capital of Russia?

Moscow

What French ruler invaded Russia in 1812, and why was he forced to retreat?

Napoleon; Russia's bitterly cold climate

Who killed much of Poland's Jews?

Nazis

What is the main religion of the region?

Orthodox Christianity

Which Russian czar expanded Russian rule east to the Pacific?

Peter the Great

Who has varied natural resources?

Poland

What are Russia's major means of transportation?

Railroads

Hungary: Main Religion

Roman Catholicism

Which country was ruled by Communist leader named Nicolae Ceausescu, who led the country to economic chaos?

Romania

The world's largest country that contains a variety of physical features.

Russia

What happened in 1917?

Russian Revolution establishes Communist government

Which republic remained joined in the country of Yugoslavia until the early 2000s?

Serbia and Montenegro

The Asia part of Russia is know as ____.

Siberia

Which part of the former Yugoslavia is expected to recover quickly from the problems brought by war and independence?

Slovenia

What had widespread support?

Solidarity

Who has large deposits of coal, sulfur, and copper?

Southern Poland

What does the layer of permafrost across most of Siberia mean?

That buildings must be supported off the ground, so as not to thaw soil around the foundations.

Two mountains that are in Russia

The Caucasus and Ural Mountains

Which nation is known as a "breadbasket" of Eastern Europe because of its productive farmland?

Ukraine

Identify two major bodies of water in or around Russia with major pollution problems

Volga River Baltic Sea

By the end of what war, how many Poles had been killed in Concentration Camps?

WWII, 6 million

Hungary: Description of Region

a broad plain in the east; plateaus, hilly, valleys in the west

The Czech Republic: Size

about the size of South Carolina

Hungary: Basic of Economy

agriculture in the east and industry in the west

Why do trees on the taiga not grow very tall, but they do grow in ______?

bc of the temperature; dense clumps

Central Europe and Northern Eurasia: Major Economic Activities (2)

commercial farming nomadic herding

Siberia's geology is ____ and presents both ___ and ____.

complex; problems; wealth

Central Europe and Northern Eurasia: Major Ecosystems (2)

coniferous forest (taiga) temperate grassland (steppers)

Much of Poland's soil is ______.

fertile

Bulgaria has ______ and ______.

fertile soil; mild weather

Russia also has ____ plains

gently rolling

What are Siberia's (rich;6) reserves?

gold, silver, platinum, zinc, petroleum, and natural gas

Why is it hard to reach Siberia's resources?

harsh climate

What are three leisure activities Russians may enjoy?

hiking, sports, ballet performances

The plant life in Russia is closely related to ___ and ___

locations; climate

Slovakia: Basis of Economy

mixed economy of farming and manufacturing

The Czech Republic: Description of Landscape

plains along Elbe and Danube River; dominated by plateaus and mountains, along it boundaries

The tundra is cold and treeless and is dominated by small ____ and ____ adapted to the conditions of the region.

plants; animals

In 1989,_____ forced free elections and ______ did not win a majority of the votes.

public opinion, Communists

Slovakia: Description of Landscape

rugged peaks in the north; plains of the Danube in the south

Central Europe and Northern Eurasia: Major Climates (2)

subarctic tundra

What 1917 event put an end to rule by czars and established a communist government?

the Russian Revolution

What two groups established the first Russian state in the 800s?

the Slaves and the Vikings

Russia's land is more than ___ that of any two of the world'e next four largest nations combined.

twice

How did communism affect Russia's economy?

under communism, farms, industry, and resources came under government control. However, agriculture and industrial production remained low and standard of living remained poor.