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38 Cards in this Set
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What three bodies of water hold the most population? |
Baltic sea Black Sea Lake Baikal |
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What is the most fertile soil in the world? |
Stepp soil |
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what is a treeless plain |
Tundra |
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What is a coniferous forest? |
Taiga |
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what is the worlds largest forest in the world? |
Siberia |
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if all the rivers flow through the siberian lowland why is there a giant swamp? |
Because part of the ob river thaws first, turns to liquid and reaches the still frozen part of the river and it floods out across the landscape because there's no where for it to go |
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why is Siberia important? |
becauss it had oil |
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Do a lot of people live in Siberia |
No because of its swamp |
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A group of places that share a commonality |
region |
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a group of people who imagine sharing a common background, identity, and destiny |
nation |
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a territory that is sovereign (doesn't have to answer to any other power; country) |
State |
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who conquered the Russians arch enemies (Tatars) and colonized them in the 1500's? |
Ivan the Terrible |
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in the 1800's what one state covered the entire region? |
The Russian Empire |
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how long was the rule of the Russian Empire |
1500's-1917 |
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In 1917 the last czar was overthrown throwing them into a 4yr civil war, in 1921 who won the war? and what did they do after they won? |
The soviets and they renamed the empire The Soviet union |
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how long was the Soviets era rule |
1921-1999 exactly 70 years |
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what are the soviets? |
Russian Communists |
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What 3 things did the Soviets do build their nation? |
Strip away some by taking their lands make Russian the mandatory language in the soviet Union move 3 million russians to russian part pf te country (to spy on them) |
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What did the Soviets do to East Prussia (German area)? |
They took over a piece of Germany (1945) and expelled the entire population of east Prussia and replaced them with Russians, tore down German buildings and replaced them with soviet buildings, changed German names on the map to Soviet names |
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When did Lithuanians declare independence from The soviet Union? |
1991 |
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What are the 2 requirements that an ethnic group had to meet for independence? |
1. population of at least 1 million people 2. had to be located on the periphery soviet union (outside edge) |
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how many nations became states? |
14 |
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who did the Russians destroy and why? |
The Chechens because they didn't meet 2nd criteria (outside edge) |
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What happened to the Russians in the countries that declared there independence? |
They go beat up and murdered because it was payback time |
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when did Latvia get its independence, how many people lived there, and how many were Russians? |
1991, 2 million people, and 750,000 were Russians |
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how many Russians chose to stay in Latvia? |
350,000 |
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refers to the area extent of the space being examined |
Spatial Scale |
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what did Moldova do after they got there independence? |
took the Russian language out of schools and started teaching Moldovan culture and history. |
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What did Russian do in Moldova when they got there independence? |
Russians decided to create their own country East of the River and named it Trans-Dneister Republic. Created a road block and wouldn't let Moldova cross it |
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When did Aral sea begin to shrink and why? |
1960 and they began using the rivers as a cotton producing area |
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What is the life expectancy around the aral sea and why? |
38 years old because as the sea shrinks it exposes more of the salt/ chemicals and as the wind whips it is blown up into the air they brethe |
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How did they fix the aral sea problem? |
Fill it back up with water |
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What is a GIS? |
it organizes date about Earths surface we want to see |
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Component of a GIS What is the base map layer? |
The static background |
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Components of a GIS What is the operational layer? |
Dynamic layers that you can interact with |
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When did Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas and what did it do? |
1494 and it divided the map so there wasn't any boundary disputes |
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What are the 4 highland climates in the mountains? |
1. Tierra helada (icy top) 2. Tierra Fria (cold) 3. Tierra templada (warm) 4. Tierra caliente (hot bottom) |
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causes scattered thunderstorms |
convectional lifting |
