World Geography 1105 Flashcards by Jam Flores

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MATCH THE COUNTRY

Danube River Delta

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Romania

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Serbia, Montenegro

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Yugoslavia

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plateau with several mountains

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Macedonia

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Great Pannonian Plain, mountains

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Yugoslavia

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Great Plain, Northern Highlands, Transdanubia

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Hungary

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Transylvanian Basin, Carpathian Mountains

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Romania

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Adriatic coastal lowland, karst topography, mountains

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Republic of Macedonia and parts of Greece and Bulgaria

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historic Macedonia

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European Plain, Sudeten Mountains, Carpathians, Polish Uplands

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Poland

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most ethnically diverse of nations formed from communist Yugoslavia

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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first European nation to change from communistic to democratic government

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Poland

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last European nation to change from communistic to democratic government

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Romania

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

industry

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Hungary

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

agriculture

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Macedonia, Greece

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

industry, agriculture

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Romania, Russia

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

agriculture, forestry

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Slovenia

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

coal, iron, steel, textiles, petrochemicals, agriculture

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Poland

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Nation whose economy is based on the ff

agriculture, mining, timber

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Because of _____, _____, or _____ differences, many large nations have broken into several smaller ones

A

ethnic; religious; cultural

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Most of the new democratic republics in Eastern Europe are facing serious ____ problems

A

economic

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Most of the nations in Eastern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula have a ____ climate

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continental

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The ____ River flows through or borders eight European nations

A

Danube

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The ____ Peninsula contains the nations of Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece.

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Balkan

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Religious and ethnic differences led to the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of ___

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Yugoslavia

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____ are the primary geographical feature of the Balkan Peninsula

Mountains

CAPITAL Bosnia and Herzegovina

Saravejo

CAPITAL Croatia

Zagreb

CAPITAL Hungary

Budapest

CAPITAL Macedonia

Skopje

CAPITAL Poland

Warsaw

`CAPITAL Romania

Bucharest

CAPITAL Slovenia

Ljubljana

CAPITAL Yugoslavia

Belgrade

Nation whose economy is based on the ff agriculture, processing of natural resources

Albania

Nation whose economy is based on the ff tourism, industry, agriculture

Bulgaria

Nation whose economy is based on the ff industry, agriculture, fishing

Estonia

The ____ situation and the demands for greater ____ caused the downfall of many European communist governments during the late 1980s

economic; freedom

The ____ Mountains in ____ are the highest mountains on the Balkan Peninsula

Rhodope; Bulgaria

The ____ Plain covers the northern region of Bulgaria, the ___ Mountains are in the center, and the ____ River valley and the ____ Mountains are in the southern half of the nation

Danubian; Balkan; Maritsa; Rhodope

Most of Albania is covered by a continuation of the _____

Dinaric Alps

The nation of ____ includes the Aegean Islands, Crete, Macedonia and Thrace, Peloponnese, and islands in he Ionian Sea

Greece

Most of the soil in Greece is rocky ____ and is not ____

limestone; arable

The ____, ____, and ____ are the three major geographical features of Greece

sea; mountains; lowlands

_____ is a peninsula in southern Greece that today is technically an ____ because the Corinth Canal separates it from the mainland

Peloponnese; island

Until 1990, the ____ was a communist state with ___ union republics

Soviet Union; 15

_____, _____, and _____ did not join the CIS

Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

The ______, or ___, is a union of ___ of the independent republics formerly part of the USSR

Commonwealth of Independent States; CIS; 12

Most of European Russia is covered by the ____, a part of the Great European Plain

Russian Plain

The ____ serve as the dividing line between European and Asiatic Russia

Ural Mountains

____ is the area of Russia between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean and between the Arctic Ocean and China, Mongolia, and central Kazakhstan

Siberia

Southern Siberia is a region of ____, but desolate ___ covers northern Siberia

steppes; tundra

Lake ___ is the ___ lake on Earth

Baikal; deepest

smallest CIS nation

Armenia

second-smallest CIS nation

moldova

largest CIS nation

Russia

largest nation in europe

Russia

second-largest nation in Europe

Ukraine

CIS nation with greatest population density

Moldova

CIS nation with greatest population

Russia

two noncontiguous regions

Azerbaijan

nation where oil-refining industry began

Azerbaijan

largest marshland in Europe

Belarus, Ukraine

Carpathian and Crimean mountains; level plain

Ukraine

Ararat plain; mountains

Armenia

Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains; dry plain

Azerbaijan

second largest CIS nation

Kazakhstan

lowest point in the CIS

Kazakhstan

highest peak in the CIS

Tajikistan

poorest CIS nation

Tajikistan

most recent member of CIS

Georgia

Kara Kum; Kopet Dagh

Turkmenistan

Tien Shan and Pamirs

Tajikistan

Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Kartalinian Plain; lowland valley

Georgia

plateau; mountains; lowlands

Kazakhstan

Tien Shan; Kyzyl Kum

Uzbekistan

nuclear weapons testing site at Semipalatinsk

Kazakhstan

CAPITAL Armenia

Yerevan

CAPITAL Azerbaijan

Baku

CAPITAL Belarus

Minsk

CAPITAL Georgia

Tbilisi

CAPITAL Kazakhstan

Alma Ata

CAPITAL Kyrgyzstan

Bishbek

CAPITAL Moldova

Chisinau

CAPITAL Tajikistan

Dushanbe

CAPITAL Turkmenistan

Ashkabad

CAPITAL Ukraine

Kiev