Europe And Russia

Question 1

Moraines

Answer 1

piles of glacial debris

Question 2

Fjords

Answer 2

Flooded valley inlets

Question 3

Polder

Answer 3

Reclaimed land, drain lake and farm

Question 4

Romance Language

Answer 4

French, Spanish, Italian

Question 5

Germanic Language

Answer 5

Language North of the Alps.

Question 6

Slavic Language

Answer 6

Third major language group

Question 7

Fortress Europe

Answer 7

Free movement for citizens across national borders without passport inspections or checks

Question 8

Schengen Agreement

Answer 8

Goal for gradual reduction of border formalities for travelers moving between EU countries

Question 9

Countries with ties to Orthodox Church

Answer 9

Cyrillic alphabet (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Serbia)

Question 10

Irredentism

Answer 10

State policies for reclaiming lost territory and peoples

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

U.S, west Germany to south of Turkey

Question 12

Berlin Blockade

Answer 12

Soviets imposed a blockade on the city, NATO air lifted supplies to the city

Question 13

Privatization

Answer 13

Transfer to private ownership of firms and industries that were previously owned and operated by the state government

Question 14

Russian Domain

Answer 14

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia

Question 15

Kamchatka Wilderness

Answer 15

Untouched environment (China, Canada, Russia have oil rights)

Question 16

Russian Environment

Answer 16

Poor air quality
Low quality coal
Building industries in concentrated areas
Nuclear threat, dump waste in water

Question 17

Podzol Soils

Answer 17

Acidic soils that limit farm output

Question 18

Permafrost

Answer 18

Cold-climate condition, unstable seasonally frozen ground

Question 19

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Answer 19

Key railroad passage to the Pacific

Question 20

Gulag Archipelago

Answer 20

Vast collection of political prisons, inmate spent years removed from families and communities

Question 21

Russification

Answer 21

Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the soviet union

Question 22

Mikrorayans

Answer 22

Large, soviet-era housing projects

Question 23

Cossacks

Answer 23

Slavic speaking Christians who migrate searching for freedom

Question 24

Socialist Realism

Answer 24

A style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challenging nature or struggling against capitalism

Question 25

Russian Time Zones

Answer 25

11 Time zones, 200 million people in Russian Domain, 110 Million in Russia

Question 26

Russian Air Pollution

Answer 26

Clustered factories
Few environment controls
Low-quality coal

Question 27

Russian Water Pollution

Answer 27

Industrial waste
Raw sewage
Oil spills
Pulp and paper factories polluted Lake Baikal

Question 28

Exclave

Answer 28

Portion of a countries territory that lies outside its contiguous land area

Question 29

Glasnost

Answer 29

Policy of greater openness (Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev)

Question 30

Denuclearization

Answer 30

Return of nuclear weapons from outlying republics to Russian control and partial dismantling

Question 31

Centralized Economic Planning

Answer 31

State controlled production targets and industrial outputs

Question 32

Devolution

Answer 32

More localized political control in Russia

Question 33

European Union

Answer 33

Supranational Organization with 27 countries, regional force in europe