Chapter 15

Question 0

What percentage of Russia and the Republics’ people live on the Northern European Plain?

Answer 0

75%

Question 1

Russia and the Republics make up what fraction of the earth’s land surface?

Answer 1

1/6

Question 2

What are the Northern European Plain’s three largest cities?

Answer 2

Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev

Question 3

Moscow is the capital of where?

Answer 3

Russia

Question 4

Kiev is the capital of where?

Answer 4

Ukraine

Question 5

What is one of the world’s most fertile soils found in Russia and the Republics?

Answer 5

Chernozem

Question 6

What is the mountain range separating the Northern European and Western Siberian plains?

Answer 6

Ural mountains

Question 7

What is Eurasia?

Answer 7

Europe and Asia combined

Question 8

What is the region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia?

Answer 8

Transcaucasia

Question 9

What is the region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan?

Answer 9

Central Asia

Question 10

What two rivers are found on the Turan plain?

Answer 10

Syr Darya and Amu Darya

Question 11

What two deserts make up the Turan plain?

Answer 11

Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum

Question 12

What is the largest drainage basin in Russia and the Republics?

Answer 12

Arctic basin

Question 13

What is the longest river on the European continent?

Answer 13

Volga River

Question 14

How did the Aral Sea lose 80% of its water volume?

Answer 14

Irrigation

Question 15

What percentage of the world’s freshwater does Lake Baikal hold?

Answer 15

20%

Question 16

Russia holds what fraction of the world’s timber resources?

Answer 16

1/5

Question 17

What is Siberia?

Answer 17

The part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia

Question 18

What is continentality?

Answer 18

The effect of distance on climate

Question 19

What is the taiga?

Answer 19

The largest forest on Earth

Question 20

What is runoff?

Answer 20

Rainfall not absorbed by the soil that runs into streams and rivers

Question 21

What three diseases occur because of pollution of the Aral Sea?

Answer 21

Dysentery, typhoid, and hepatitis

Question 22

What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?

Answer 22

Railroad linking Moscow to Vladivostok

Question 23

How many time zones do Russia and the Republics cross?

Answer 23

11

Question 24

How many times larger than the United States is Russia?

Answer 24

3

Question 25

Where is Turan plain located?

Answer 25

Between the Caspian Sea and Central Asia

Question 26

What are Russia and the Republic’s three most powerful rivers?

Answer 26

Ob, Yenisey, and Lena

Question 27

What is the area in Russia and the Republics with the most fertile land?

Answer 27

Northern European Plain

Question 28

What border do the Caucasus mountains form?

Answer 28

Border between Russia and Transcaucasia

Question 29

What are two challenges when transporting goods in Russia and the Republics?

Answer 29

How to transport resources from harsh and distant regions and how to use the resources without damaging the environment

Question 30

What resources are found in Russia and the Republics?

Answer 30

Timber, natural gas, petroleum, iron ore, and coal

Question 31

What are three reasons for Russia’s cold climate?

Answer 31

Continentality, mountains, and latitude

Question 32

What are the vegetative regions in Russia and the Republics? (TFSD)

Answer 32

Tundra, Forest, Steppe, Desert

Question 33

What decade did the Aral Sea start to lose water? What percent?

Answer 33

1960’s; 80%

Question 34

How did Trans-Siberian Railroad impact economy?

Answer 34

It allowed population to increase and use Russia’s resources?

Question 35

What was “General Winter”?

Answer 35

The harsh winter that allowed Russia to drive out Napoleon’s troops.