World Geography 1105 Check-up B
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agriculture, processing of natural resources | Albania |
| tourism, industry, agriculture | Bulgaria |
| industry, agriculture, fishing | Estonia |
| agriculture | Greece |
| industry, agriculture, fishing | Latvia |
| industry, agriculture, fishing | Lithuania |
| industry, agriculture | Russia |
| The ecoomic situation and the demands for greater freedom | caused the downfall of many European communist governments during the late 1980's. |
| Danubian Plain | covers the northern region of Bulgaria |
| Balkan Mountains | are in the center of Bulgaria |
| Maritsa River Valley and Rhodope Mountains | in the southern half of Bulgaria |
| Rhodope Mountains | in Bulgaria are the highest mountains on the Balkan Peninsula |
| Most of Albania | is covered by a continuation of the Dinaric Alps |
| Greece | includes the Aegean Islands, Crete, Macedonia and Thrace, Peloponnese, and islands in the Ionian Sea |
| Most of the soil in Greece | rocky limestone and is not arable |
| 3 major geographical features of Greece | sea, mountains and lowlands |
| Peloponnese | a peninsula in souther Greece that today is technically an island because the Corinth Canal separates it from the mainland |
| Until 1990, the Soviet Union was a communist state with.... | 15 union republics |
| Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS | a union of 12 of the independent republics formerly part of the USSR |
| Did not join the CIS | Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania |
| Most of European Russia | is covered by the Russian Plain, a part of the Great European Plain |
| Ural Mountains | serve as the dividing line between European and Asiatic Russia |
| Siberia | the area of Russia between the Ural Mountains and the Pacific Ocean and between the Arctic Ocean and China, Mongolia and centrall Kazakhstan |
| Southern Siberia | a region of steppes, but desolate tundra covers northern Siberia |
| Lake Baikal | deepest lake on Earth |
| Tirane | Albania |
| Sofia | Bulgaria |
| Tallinn | Estonia |
| Athens | Greece |
| Riga | Latvia |
| Vilnius | Lithuania |
| Moscow | Russia |
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