World Geography Pre-Ap Flashcards

292220785	Transcaucasus	A regions that consist of Amenia,Azerbaijan, and Georgia.	0
292220786	Siberia	The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk.	1
292220787	Central asia	a region consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan	2
292220788	Baltic states	Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, three countries that border the Baltic Sea.	3
292220789	Ukraine	a republic in southeastern Europe	4
292220790	Belarus	a landlocked republic in eastern Europe	5
292220791	European Russia	the Russia that is part of Europe	6
292220792	Far east	a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)	7
292220793	Ural mountains	a mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea	8
292220794	Kamchatka peninsula	a peninsula in eastern Siberia	9
292220795	Volga river	the longest river in europe and Russia's most important commercial river	10
292220796	North European plain	a large fertile area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains	11
292220797	West siberian plain	world's largest area of flatland located east of the Ural Mountains	12
292220798	Central Siberian plateau	made up of sharply demarcated surfaces of varying altitudes occupying most of Siberia between the Yenisei and Lena rivers	13
292220799	Turan plain	An extensive lowland in between the Caspian Sea and the mountains and uplands of Central Asia	14
292220800	Caspian sea	a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River	15
292220801	Lake baikal	Deepest lake in the world. Holds 20% of earth's fresh water	16
292220802	Kuril islands	Russia took posession of the islands after the Russo-Japanese War but they are still in dispute.	17
292220803	Vladimir putin	Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000	18
292220804	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)	19
292220805	Glasnost	a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems	20
292220806	Perestroika	an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union	21
292220807	Perestroika	an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union	22
292220808	Democratization	the spread of representative government to more countries and the process of making governments more representative	23
292220809	Boris yeltsin	President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign.	24
292220810	Vladimir lenin	Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)	25
292220811	Ussr	the union of soviet socialist republics, or soviet union, formed in 1922 by the communists and officially dissolved in 1991	26
292220812	Joesph stalin	Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition (780)	27
292220813	Distance decay	The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.	28
292220814	Russian mafia	A diverse group of organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union, Russia, and the CIS.	29
293485098	South ossetia	Ossetia is split between Russia (north) and Georgia (south). Many ethnic Russians live in South Ossetia.	30
293485099	Abkhazia	an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea	31
293485100	Nagorno-karabakh	A mountainous area of Azerbaijan where Armenia and Azerbiajan faught	32
293485101	Exclave	a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory.	33
293485102	Trans-Siberian railroad	railroad that runs from Moscow to Vladivosto on the East coast and is the longest single rail line in the world	34
293485103	Karl marx	founder of modern communism	35
293485104	Silk road	an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles)	36
293485105	Aral sea	a lake east of the Caspian Sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that has , lost 80% of water volume from irrigation projects	37
293485106	Chernobyl	nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 & released radioactive materials into the air	38