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28 Cards in this Set
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A lake between Kazakhistan and Uzbekistan that was once the 4th largest body of water but is now shrinking
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Aral Sea
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
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Baltic Republics
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Banya
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a traditional russian steam bath
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Caspian Sea
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Largest enclosed body of water on earth; lies between southern russia and iran
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Caucasus
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A mountain barriar between Europe and Asia
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Caucasus Mountains
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A mountain system in Eurasia between the Black and Caspian Sea
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Central Asia
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Tied to the Silk Road
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Central Siberian Plateau
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Sharply demarcated surfaces and varying altitudes; Takes up most of siberia
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Chechenya
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located in the northern Caucasus mountains; Capital: Grozny
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Chernobyl
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A former city in Ukraine where the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded
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Chernozem
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A Black colored soil containing a lot of humus highly fertile
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Cold War
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a war between the soviet union and the U.S. wich resulted in the space race
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Collective Farms
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an orginization of agricultural labor in wich farmers are not compensated with money, but they are payed in what the farm produces
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Command Econmy
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the state or government controls all major sectors of the economy and formulates all decisions about their use and about the distribution of income, much like a communist state
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Continentality
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The idea tha the desert was once a large body of water
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Czar
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The General term for a Monarch
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Dacha
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a russian word for a year-round or seasonal home
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Distance Decay
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a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions. The distance decay effect states that the interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases.
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Excalve
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a part of the country that is outside of the main part
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Eurasia
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A large landmass that has both the continents of Asia and Europe
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Great Game
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a British term for what the British saw as a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia.
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Kara Kum
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a desert in central asia
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Keiv
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the largest city and capitol of ukraine
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Kyzyl Kum
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11th largest desert in the world; it means red sand in central asia
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Lake Baikal
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Holds water thats volume is larger than all of north america
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Line Graph
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a graph with ploted coordinants
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Moscow
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The capital of germany
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Nagorno-Karabakh
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in the southern carcusus
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