MT 3 Former Soviet Union Vocabulary

Question 1

thick forests, coniferous trees

Answer 1

tiaga

Question 2

grassy plains, too dry to support trees plowed for farms

Answer 2

steppe

Question 3

a leader who governs by force, without the consent of the people

Answer 3

dictator

Question 4

a type of government where the people don’t own things like land but the government does

Answer 4

communism

Question 5

feelings of loyalty and pride toward one’s nation or ethnic group

Answer 5

nationalism

Question 6

Western and Southern Asia; winters are freezing cold, summers are hot and steamy, crops grow in areas with longer growing seasons…very dry

Answer 6

Humid Continental

Question 7

A Russian politician and was the first and founding head of government for Soviet Russia, led the Russian Revolution

Answer 7

Vladimir Lenin

Question 8

the build up of salt in soil or water

Answer 8

Salinization

Question 9

an independent state, or country, whose people mostly share a common identity

Answer 9

Nation-State

Question 10

Where are about 1/4 of the world’s coal reserves found?

Answer 10

Siberia

Question 11

northern Asia, cold all year, land is frozen, temps down to -90, long and cold winters with short and cool summers, no farming

Answer 11

tundra/ subarctic

Question 12

an extremely powerful country with more political, economic, or military might than most other countries

Answer 12

superpower

Question 13

a condition that occurs when people don’t have enough clean fresh water to meet their everyday needs

Answer 13

water stress

Question 14

an emperor of Russia before 1917

Answer 14

czar

Question 15

cotton

Answer 15

white gold

Question 16

a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control

Answer 16

failed state