1. Twenty Questions
Subject: Chapter13-14

2. Twenty Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

3. 1. Russia’s ____ river is the longest in Europe and is important as a transportation route and source of hydroelectric power
Volga

4. 2. Ethnic Russians today are descendants of___ farmers and hunters who settled the Northern European Plain in the A.D. 600s?
Slav

5. 3. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the government encouraged__ which favored the wealthy.
Privatization

6. 4. The Ural Mountains mark the traditional boundary between?
European Russia and Siberian Russia

7. 5. The title held by the ruler of Russia before the 1917 revolution?
Czar

8. 6. Perestroika
Part of Gorbachev’s plan for reforming or restructuring the soviet economy and government.

9. 7. A Ukrainian town where a nuclear accident occurred in 1986?
Chernobyl

10. 8. A natural barrier that marks the traditional boundary between European and Siberian Russia economy?
Ural Mountains

11. 9. New openness in areas of political, social issues, and media?
Glasnost

12. 10. Many people in Eastern Europe burn wood to heat their homes because?
Its cheaper than electricity

13. 11. The earliest people of Eastern Europe were?
Slavs, Germanic and Celtic

14. 12. Most of Eastern Europe has a ___ climate?
Continental

15. 13. Which two ethnic groups were most affected by ethnic cleansing during the 1990’s?
Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims

16. 14. A broad lowland area north of the Carpathians covering most of Poland and many Baltic countries?
Northern European Plain

17. 15. Yugoslavia only existed from the 1940s to the 1990s because
Its corrupt government was removed and the territory was absorbed by neighboring countries.

18. 16. Removal of which essential elements leads to erosion that can cause desert-like conditions?
Topsoil and the vegetation it supports

19. 17. An extension of the Swiss Alps along the Adriatic Sea characterized by barren and rocky ground?
Dinaric Alps

20. 18. The breaking of larger countries or regions into smaller ones, often based on ethnicities?
Balkanization

21. 19. An action to reverse the negative consequences of excessive logging?
Reforestation

22. 20. On of the last undammed waterways in Europe and a popular tourist attraction?
Tara River

23. 21. Buffer Zone
A natural region between countries with opposing ideologies or politics