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Geography exam 2
Europe and Russia
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
10/09/2012

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Glassnest
Definition
openess
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Perestroika
Definition
Restructuring
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two major climates
Definition
Marine West Coast- very wet like our west coast Mediterenean-caused by seasonal shift in atmosphere belt
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North Atlantic Drift
Definition
high latitude
also the Gulf Stream
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European Plain
Definition
made of loess soil much like I.A
french-spanish border far into russia
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3 major language groups
Definition
Romance (evolved from latin)-french spanish italian
Germanic- english german dutch
Slavic- russia, polish, czech, slovak
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European Colonization
Definition
colonized by water cause agriculture not big enough
brought animals along
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Suprannationalism
Definition
3 or more nation-station involved in formal political, economic and/or cultural cooperation to premote shared objectives
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example of Supranationalism
Definition
EU and NATO
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Devolution
Definition
Dispersal of political powers, became their own.
problem with the EU cause of diverse need of members
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Primate city
Definition
Paris
center of manufacture
largest in the country
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Shatter belt
Definition
region with fragmented and unstable pattern of nationalities and political units
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permafrost
Definition
permanently frozen ground
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permafrost characteristics
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largest forest on earth
west siberian plain marshy waterplugged area
floods when melted make structures tilt
flattest place on earth underlain by permafrost pipelines also on stilts
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Topography of Terrors
Definition
torchering in berlin
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Population Replacement
Definition
more old people than young. the DRBR is under and Euroe results to immigration to keep population up
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Russia key to success
Definition
-enviroment to rigorious
-overwhelming distance
-defenders love of their homeland
-scorched earth strategy to protect the moterland
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Russian Revolution
Definition
NIcholas the second died, end of tsars, protest sacrifice of russian soldiers
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Bolshevik Revolution
Definition
led by Vladimir Lenin
-control of soviet unin in 1922
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Marxism
Definition
Economic system was application of the economic and social ideas of German Philosphical Karl Marx angainst the bourgeosis capital class and the protestanist work class 1922 implemation
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Command economy
Definition
series of a 5 year economic plans under Stalin Gosplan in moscow
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Geothermal
Definition
Iceland
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Fertile Triangle
Definition
50% U.S.
3/4 the population
collective agriculture
urals
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characteristic of fertile triangle
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Dry climate
hot summers, cold winters
grain farming is important.
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Gulag
Definition
system of labor camps in the soviet union
-people often died
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chunnel
Definition
links britain and calais france-straut of dover
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colliseum was built in
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nurmberg
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poorest country in Europe
Definition
Albania
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Holocaust
Definition
over 6 million jews have died
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Oilin Caspian Basin
Definition
3rd largest in the world
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Jewish Ghetto
Definition
Venice
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Velvet Revolution
Definition
fall of berlin. Czechoslovakia split up
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Germany
Definition
most popular immigrated country
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Average size of countries the size of ?????
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Arkansas
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Climates and Vegetation
Definition
Marine West coast
Mediterranean
citrus all year long
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physical features of Europe
Definition
Alps mountains
Lakes
peninsula
high altitude
lots of minerals
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Compare and contrast of US and Russia
Definition
Latitude and Longtitude
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Feud between ireland
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over religion
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Feud between ireland
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over religion
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Great Volga scheme
Definition
Control river flow with huge resevoir, complete navigability during ice free season, supply hydro power, irrigation
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