Chapter 6 Key Term Quiz

Russia and Its Neighbors
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An arc tectonic activity, including volcanoes and earthquakes, caused by the movement of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.

A significant and highly influential ancient trade route that linked Europe with China.

The democratic movement in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A very rich business person who might also maintain a great deal of political authority. Oligarchs proliferated in Russia after the fall of the USSR as many previously state owned assets were acquired below market value.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A plan initiated in 1953 to open up vast areas of Kazakhstan steppe to grain production.

A military alliance formed in 1949 between Canada, the USA and European countries as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.

The world's first communist state established in 1917 and encompassed modern day Russia along with a number of countries that surround it. The USSR collapsed in the late 1991.

A vast network of pipelines used to transport oil and gas deposits from Russia and central Asia to markets in Europe and China.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

A type of economic system that is controlled and planned by the central government.

A type of economic system that is not controlled by a central authority but rather left to the free and open collaboration and decisions of the participants in the market.

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