Mr. B Exam 2 Vocab Terms - Statistics

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Hint	Textbook Chapter	Answer	% Correct
Migration of the best-educated people from developing countries to developed nations where economic opportunities are greater.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	brain drain	50%
Strategic setting where narrow waterways or other narrow passages are vulnerable to military blockade disruption.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	choke point	50%
A political belief based on the writings of Karl Marx, in which all property is publicly owned and all workers are paid according to their abilities and needs.	Eurasia	communism	50%
A religious belief in a single God.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	monotheism	50%
A series of public protests, strikes, and rebellions in the Arab countries in early 2011, often facilitated by social media, that called for fundamental government and economic reforms.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Arab Spring	38%
An ideological struggle/conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that was conducted between 1946 and 1991.	Eurasia	Cold War	38%
The purposeful selection and breeding of wild plants and animals for cultural purposes.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	domestication	38%
The current association of 28 (soon 27) European countries that are joined together in an agenda of economic, political, and cultural integration.	Europe	European Union/EU	38%
A portion of a country’s territory that lies outside its contiguous land area.	Eurasia	exclave	38%
A river that issues from a humid area and flows into a dry area otherwise lacking streams.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	exotic river	38%
Flooded, glacially carved valley. In Europe, ______ are found primarily along Norway’s western coast and much of Iceland’s coast.	Europe	fjords	38%
Water supplies that were stored underground during wetter climatic periods.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	fossil water	38%
The interplay of water resource issues and politics.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	hydropolitics	38%
Technological change beginning in the 18th century when European factories first switched from using animate power (human and animal) to inanimate power (water and coal) to power machines.	Europe	Industrial Revolution	38%
A term coined by British leader Winston Churchill during the Cold War to define the western border of Soviet power in Europe.	Europe	Iron Curtain	38%
The alphabet devised by the ancient Romans that is used today for writing most European languages, including English.	Europe	Latin alphabet	38%
A region in northwestern Africa that includes portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Maghreb	38%
A large, Turkish-based empire (named for Osman, one of its founders) that dominated large portions of southeastern Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Ottoman Empire	38%
A book of divine revelations received by the prophet Muhammad that serves as a holy text in the religion of Islam.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Qur'an	38%
An historical trade route that extended across Central Asia, linking China with Europe and Southwest Asia.	Central Asia	Silk Road	38%
A pivotal waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean opened by the French in 1869.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Suez Canal	38%
A Muslim who practices the other dominant branch of Islam.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Sunni	38%
harsh islamic governmental group	Central Asia	Taliban	38%
The Cold War military alliance of eight Soviet-controlled eastern European states created to counter the west’s NATO Pact.	Europe	Warsaw Pact	38%
A fan-shaped deposit of sediments dropped by a river or stream flowing out of a mountain range.	Central Asia	Alluvial Fan	25%
Short for “Britain’s exit,” the June 2016 referendum by United Kingdom voters to leave the European Union.	Europe	Brexit	25%
A country that is situated between much stronger countries, and which is intended to reduce conflicts between those more powerful countries by preventing them from sharing a common border.	Central Asia	buffer state	25%
An ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that was conducted between 1946 and 1991.	Europe	Cold War	25%
A form of government with a democratically elected government and a royal figurehead that serves as the symbolic head of state, as in the United Kingdom with an elected parliament and the Queen as symbol of the country.	Europe	constitutional monarchy	25%
An alphabet based on the Greek alphabet and used by Slavic languages heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is attributed to the missionary work of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century.	Europe	Cyrillic alphabet	25%
The leader of the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The current Dalai Lama is an important advocate for Tibetan rights.	Central Asia	Dalai Lama	25%
the global scattering of people	Eurasia	diaspora	25%
A loose confederation of self-governing churches in eastern Europe and Russia that are historically linked to Byzantine traditions and to the primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul).	Eurasia	Eastern Orthodox Christianity	25%
(a practice that includes women being lured or abducted into prostitution, the commercial sex industry, or forced labor)	Eurasia	human trafficking	25%
A term coined by British leader Winston Churchill during the Cold War to define the western border of Soviet power in Europe. The notorious Berlin Wall was a concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain.	Eurasia	Iron Curtain	25%
The eastern Mediterranean region.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Levant	25%
A fine, wind-deposited sediment that makes fertile soil but is very vulnerable to water erosion.	Central Asia	Loess	25%
A relatively homogeneous cultural group (a nation) with its own political territory	Europe	nation-state	25%
Initially this organization was a group of North Atlantic and European allies who came together in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat to western Europe.	Europe	North Atlantic Treaty Organization/NATO	25%
An ice-free channel along Siberia’s northern coast that will grow in importance given sustained global warming.	Eurasia	northern sea route/NSR	25%
A quasi-governmental body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Palestinian Authority/PA	25%
A 2015 international agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed by most of the world’s countries and aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to global climate change.	Europe	Paris Agreement	25%
A traditional subsistence agricultural system in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movements of livestock within marginal natural environments.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	pastoral nomadism	25%
A traditional subsistence agricultural system in which practitioners depend on the seasonal movements of livestock within marginal natural environments.	Central Asia	Pastoral Nomadism	25%
A policy of the Soviet Union designed to spread Russian settlers and influences to non-Russian areas of the country.	Eurasia	Russification	25%
The accumulation of salts in the upper layers of soil, often causing a reduction in crop yields, resulting from irrigation using water with high natural salt content and/or irrigation of soils that contain a high level of mineral salts.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	salinization	25%
The 1985 agreement between most European Union member countries and some neighbors to reduce border formalities in order to facilitate freer movement of Europeans between countries for work, study, or tourism.	Europe	Schengen Agreement	25%
Muslim that practices one of the two main branches of Islam. _____ are especially dominant in Iran and nearby southern Iraq.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Shiite	25%
Created in 1917, a sprawling communist state that dominated the region until 1991. Also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (or USSR).	Eurasia	Soviet Union	25%
Semiarid grasslands found in many parts of the world. Grasses are usually shorter and less dense in steppes than in prairies.	Central Asia	steppe	25%
The vast coniferous forest of Russia that stretches from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean. The main forest species are fir, spruce, and larch.	Eurasia	Taiga	25%
A political state led by religious authorities	Central Asia	theocracy/theocratic state	25%
A form of pastoralism in which animals are taken to high-altitude pastures during the summer months and returned to low-altitude pastures during the winter.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	transhumance	25%
moving their flocks from lowland pastures in the winter to highland meadows in the summer.	Central Asia	transhumance	25%
A key southern Siberian railroad connection completed during the Russian empire (1904) that links European Russia with the Russian Far East terminus of Vladivostok.	Eurasia	Trans-Siberian Railroad	25%
A Russian term (also spelled czar) for “Caesar,” or ruler. Tsars were the authoritarian rulers of the Russian empire before its collapse in the 1917 revolution.	Eurasia	Tsar	25%
A regional political and economic organization focused on Arab unity and development.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Arab League	13%
Legal protection for refugees who are victims of ethnic, religious, or political persecution in other parts of the world.	Europe	asylum laws	13%
Key central Siberian railroad connection completed in the Soviet era (1984), which links the Yenisey and Amur rivers and parallels the Trans-Siberian Railroad.	Eurasia	Baikal–Amur Mainline Railroad/BAM	13%
A geopolitical term and concept to describe the breaking up of large political units into smaller ones, the typical example being the replacement of the former Yugoslavia	Europe	balkanization	13%
A member of the Russian Communist movement led by Lenin that successfully took control of the country in 1917.	Eurasia	Bolshevik	13%
An array of nonaligned or friendly states that “buffer” a larger country from invasion. In Europe, keeping a buffer zone has been a long-term policy of Russia	Europe	buffer zone	13%
An institution created by the European Union (EU) in 1999 to facilitate economic matters among member states, including usage of a common currency.	Europe	Economic and Monetary Union/EMU	13%
A customs union (paralleling the European Union [EU]) designed to encourage trade as well as closer political ties between member states. Formed in 2015, the ____ contains five member states (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan).	Eurasia	EEU/Eurasian Economic Union	13%
Public policies that encourage higher birth rates. An example would be extended maternity and paternity leaves for parents of a newborn.	Europe	family-friendly policies	13%
An ecologically diverse zone of lands in Southwest Asia that extends from Lebanon eastward to Iraq and that is often associated with early forms of agricultural domestication.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Fertile Crescent	13%
An Islamic religious pilgrimage to Makkah. One of the five essential pillars of the Muslim creed to be undertaken once in life, if an individual is physically and financially able to do it.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Hajj	13%
Any language that is part of the world’s largest language family coming from one ancestral language.	Europe	Indo-European	13%
A violent Sunni extremist organization that has seen its territorial influence in Iraq and Syria reduced as it attempts to create a new religious state (a caliphate) in the region.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	ISIS	13%
A movement within both the Shiite and Sunni Muslim traditions to return to a more conservative, religious-based society and state.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Islamic fundamentalism	13%
A political movement within the religion of Islam that challenges the encroachment of global popular culture and blames colonial, imperial, and Western elements for many of the region’s problems.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Islamism	13%
A unique climate, found in only five locations in the world, characterized by hot, dry summers with very little rainfall.	Europe	Mediterranean climate	13%
An international organization (formed in 1960) of 12 oil-producing nations that attempts to influence global prices and supplies of oil. Algeria, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela are members.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries/OPEC	13%
A program of partially implemented, planned economic reforms (or restructuring) undertaken during the Gorbachev years in the Soviet Union and designed to make the Soviet economy more efficient and responsive to consumer needs.	Eurasia	perestroika	13%
A cold-climate condition in which the ground remains permanently frozen.	Eurasia	permafrost	13%
A population statistic that relates the number of people in a country to the amount of arable land.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	physiological density	13%
Conflicts that divide people along ethnic, religious, and sectarian lines.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	sectarian violence	13%
Members of military and security forces within Russia.	Eurasia	Siloviki	13%
A political state led by religious authorities	North Africa and Southwest Asia	theocratic state	13%
An economic system in which the state sets production targets and controls the means of production.	Eurasia	centralized economic planning	0%
A Russian term for dark, fertile soil, often associated with grassland settings in southern Russia and Ukraine.	Eurasia	chernozem soils	0%
A climate region in a continental interior, removed from moderating oceanic influences, characterized by hot summers and cold winters. In such a climate, at least one month must average below freezing.	Europe	continental climates	0%
Highly mobile Slavic-speaking Christians of the southern Russian steppe who were pivotal in expanding Russian influence in 16th- and 17th-century Siberia.	Eurasia	Cossacks	0%
A Russian-led military association that includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The ____ and SCO work together to address military threats, crime, and drug smuggling.	Central Asia	CSTO/Collective Security Treaty Organization	0%
An area of historical cultural innovation.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	culture hearth	0%
The ceding of certain powers from central government authorities to lower political units, such as regions or cities.	Europe	devolution	0%
The common monetary policy and currency of the European Union	Europe	Eurozone	0%
A capital city deliberately positioned near a contested territory, signifying the state’s interest and presence in this zone of conflict	Central Asia	forward capital	0%
A policy of greater political openness initiated during the 1980s by then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.	Eurasia	glasnost	0%
An organization created in 2005 by 17 members of the Arab League that is designed to eliminate all intraregional trade barriers and spur economic cooperation.	North Africa and Southwest Asia	Greater Arab Free Trade Area/GAFTA	0%
A collection of Soviet-era labor camps for political prisoners, made famous by writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.	Eurasia	Gulag Archipelago	0%
A state or national policy of reclaiming lost lands or those inhabited by people of the same ethnicity in another nation-state.	Europe	irredentism	0%
A moderate climate with cool summers and mild winters that is heavily influenced by maritime conditions.	Europe	marine west coast climate	0%
The original urban core of a traditional Islamic city	North Africa and Southwest Asia	medina	0%
A large, state-constructed urban housing project built during the Soviet period in the 1970s and 1980s.	Eurasia	mikrorayon	0%
A small group of wealthy, very private businessmen who control (along with organized crime) important aspects of the Russian economy.	Eurasia	oligarchs	0%
A Russian term for an acidic soil of limited fertility, typically found in northern forest environments.	Eurasia	podzol soil	0%
A group of peoples in eastern Europe and Russia who speak Slavic languages, a distinctive branch of the Indo-European language family.	Eurasia	Slavic Peoples	0%
A artistic style once popular in the Soviet Union that was associated with realistic depictions of workers in their patriotic struggles against capitalism.	Eurasia	Socialist Realism	0%

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