Chapter Four Test 6th 2nd semester Final

Question 1

Define inflation

Answer 1

General increase in prices

Question 2

Define Tsar

Answer 2

Russian Ruler

Question 3

Define clan

Answer 3

group of familes with common ancestors

Question 4

Define econimic oligacrchy

Answer 4

A small group of people who control countries economy and influence the government.

Question 5

Define collectiization

Answer 5

a shift of control from an individual or a company to a group called a collective

Question 6

Define Bolsheviks

Answer 6

-Revolutionaries in Russia

Question 7

Define Sanctions

Answer 7

actions that attempt to force a country to follow international law

Question 8

Define commusism

Answer 8

was of organizing a society in which there is no private property in an authoritarian government owns the things to make and move products

Question 9

what is glasnost

Answer 9

the policy or practice of a more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information (openness led to greater freedom of speech)

Question 10

What is perestroika

Answer 10

the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system (restructuring provided freer markets)

Question 11

what is Permafrost

Answer 11

permanently frozen soil

Question 12

Taiga

Answer 12

thick forest of carnofires trees that cover much of Siberia

Question 13

Tundra

Answer 13

area with limited vegetation such as moss and shrubs due to its climate of cool summers and cold winters

Question 14

Authoritarian government

Answer 14

a government in which all power is held by a single person or small group who has not been chosen through a free and fair election.

Question 15

Militants

Answer 15

someone who is aggressively active in a cause

Question 16

Green Revolution

Answer 16

Increase in agricultural production created by improved technology

Question 17

Aral Sea

Answer 17

a large saltwater lake in central aisa that evaporated

Question 18

How were ideas spread along the Silk Road?

Answer 18

traders shared ideas as they traveled

Question 19

How did Catherine the Great and Michael Romanov change Russia

Answer 19

Cathrine expanded Russia’s territory and Michal increased contact with western Eroupe

Question 20

What caused conditions to worsen in Russia during WWI

Answer 20

peasants had to leave to fight leaving no one to farm the land and so food producion dcreased and prices inflated a lot

Question 21

What influences Kiev culture

Answer 21

Byzantine culture

Question 22

Which religion did Vladimir I adopt from the Byzantines

Answer 22

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Question 23

Russia’s lasting dependence on agriculture and serf labor caused what to happen

Answer 23

Russia fell behind many euorpean countries

Question 24

Why was St Petersburg chosen as Russia’s capita

Answer 24

offerd acsecs to western europe and its knowledge

Question 25

What caused Nicholas II to abdicate his throne:

Answer 25

the february revolution

Question 26

What was the fate of Tzar Nicholas II and his family:

Answer 26

They were all murdered

Question 27

Type of government after the fall of the Russian Empire

Answer 27

communist

Question 28

What did the Soviets do to farms and industries

Answer 28

collectilized them

Question 29

Leader of the Bolsheviks

Answer 29

Vladimer Lenin

Question 30

What did the Soviet Union focus on when competing with the USAnd what did they fail to focus on

Answer 30

they focused on wepons and millitary and didn’t invest in new tech

Question 31

Russia’s first persident

Answer 31

Boris yeltsin

Question 32

USSR stands for:

Answer 32

United of socialist soviet republics

Question 33

What 2 things do the most densely populated areas in Russia have in common

Answer 33

best climate and soils for agriculture.

Question 34

Most densely populated side of Russia

Answer 34

European

Question 35

What limits the use of Siberia’s natural resources

Answer 35

harsh climate

Question 36

Russia’s population is made up of:

Answer 36

russian speaking slavs

Question 37

What had Putin done to free speech

Answer 37

limited or punnished it

Question 38

Most governments in Northern Eurasia can be described as

Answer 38

Athourtarian

Question 39

What is Russia’s most valuable resources:

Answer 39

oil and gas

Question 40

Type of economy after the fall of the Soviet Union:

Answer 40

mixed

Question 41

Why were trade sanctions places on Russia

Answer 41

because of what russia did to crimea

Question 42

Low investment in some industries has caused:

Answer 42

equitment and tech in many factories to be out of date

Question 43

Two reasons that Russia’s economy has been held back:

Answer 43

they don’t give entrepreneurs the proper resources and they didn’t invest in technology

Question 44

List the 3 types of challenges in many Eurasian countries today:

Answer 44

environmental problems ethnic conflict and troubled governments

Question 45

What made the Aral Sea dry up:

Answer 45

the sea became so salty that the water evaporated

Question 46

What is a negative result of the Green Revolution:

Answer 46

heavy use of chemicals and fertelizer caused pollution

Question 47

List 3 negative results of pollution in Russia:

Answer 47

1 air pollution decreased life expectancy
2 devestaing effects on forest
3 oil gets into ground water