| A | B |
|---|
| Measures distance from the equator. | Latitude |
| Measures distance from the Prime Meridian | Longitude |
| People moving from rural areas to cities. | Urbanization |
| Average of highs and lows of temperature and precipitation. | Climate |
| Group that controls most of the wealth and power. | Majority group |
| Group not in control of wealth and power. | Minority group |
| Having 2 official languages | Bilingual |
| Powerful forces produced by movements along faults inside the earth. | Earthquakes |
| Permanently frozen layers of soil that cover 40% of Russia. | Permafrost |
| A country whose government has strong control over economy and society. | Communist state |
| Type of economy in which most businesses are privately owned. | Free enterprise system |
| Large forest area that stretches across Northern Russia. | Taiga |
| Another name for free enterprise. | Capitalism |
| Two continents that Russia is spread across. | Europe & Asia |
| What Czar Alexander was most known for. | Freed the serfs in 1861 |
| The leading movers of people in Russia. | Railroads |
| Name of the first Russian civilization. | Kievan Rus |
| Events of the Cold War. | Space Race and competition to be world power |
| Cold War participants. | United States & Russia |
| Horse riding warriors who were ancestors of the Kazakhs. | Mongols |
| Name of Russia's last Czar. | Nicholas Romanov II |
| Percent of Russia covered by permafrost. | 40% |
| World's largest inland body of water. | Caspian Sea |
| Body of water drying up due to excessive irrigation in Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan. | Aral Sea |
| Physical characteristics of a place. | Rainfall and landforms (plains, hills, etc) |
| Vegetation that grows in an ice cap climate. | Lichens |
| Latitude line that divides earth into north and south hemispheres. | Equator |
| Longitude line that divides earth into east and west hemispheres. | Prime Meridian |
| Underground rock layers that store large amounts of water. | Aquifers |
| Shifting sand in the Sahara. | Ergs |
| Capital of Egypt | Cairo |
| Separates the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt. | Suez Canal |
| Former leader of Libya. | Mummar al-Qaddhafi |
| Small, oil-rich Persian Gulf country. | Kuwait |
| Largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. | Saudi Arabia |
| Cuts through the Hindu Kush Mountains. | Khyber Pass |
| Turkey's largest city that lies on continents of Europe and Asia. | Istanbul |
| The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to this. | Red Sea |
| Egypt's major economic activity. | Agriculture |
| The first known people to live here were the Berbers. | North Africa |
| Largest desert in Saudi Arabia. | Rub al Khali |
| Saltiest and lowest body of water in the world. | Dead Sea |
| Iraq's economy is based on this. | Oil |
| Holy city of Islam which is located in Saudi Arabia. | Mecca |
| Egypt's 3 major land areas. | Desert areas, Nile River & Sinai Peninsula |
| A region of North Africa formed by Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. | Maghreb |
| Largest pyramid | Great Pyramid of Khufu |
| Percent of land inhabited by Egypt's people. | Less than 4% |
| Silt dropped by floods has made this very fertile. | Nile River Valley |
