Chapters 5.1 - 5.5

Question 1

______ is the largest country on earth, spanning the continents of Europe and Asia.

Answer 1

Russia

Question 2

______ is the capital of Russia.

Answer 2

Moscow

Question 3

_____ is considered the cultural epicenter of Russia.

Answer 3

St. Petersburg

Question 4

Most of Russia has a _____ climate.

Answer 4

Subarctic

Question 5

Russia is known for its tropical forests.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Uzbekistan’s, Turkmenistan’s, and Afghanistan’s vegetation is predominantly desert.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Natural Gas is the primary resource for economic activity in Afghanistan.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Russia is comprised of many different ethnic groups.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The ______ ______, which most geographers consider the border between Europe and Asia, run through Russia’s western portion.

Answer 9

Ural Mountains

Question 10

The primary religion in Russia is _______ _______.

Answer 10

Eastern Orthodox

Question 11

The area called ______ reaches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 11

Siberia

Question 12

______ remain two major exports from the Central Asia region.

Answer 12

Oil and Cotton

Question 13

In 1812, the French emperor, _____ invaded Russia and successfully captured Moscow.

Answer 13

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 14

The Ukrainian _______ power plant had a meltdown in 1986 resulting in deaths of 32 people and causing radiation Contamination to spread over millions of acres of land where many thousands of people had to be evacuated.

Answer 14

Chernobyl

Question 15

Russia’s population is double the population of the United States.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Northern Siberia is mostly Tundra, a frozen, treeless area.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Sweden lost the Great Northern War, which was fought between the countries of Sweden and Russia.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The Aral Sea is shrinking because the main feeding Rivers the Amu and Syr, have been largely diverted for irrigation purposes.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The large-scale movement of Siberian people begin only after the completion of the _________________in 1905.

Answer 19

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Question 20

During the Cold War in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded _____________.

Answer 20

Afghanistan

Question 21

The Tribe Called Rus founded the state that became Russia at the city of _________.

Answer 21

Kiev

Question 22

During the 1200s, _________ invaded parts of Russia and ruled these areas for several decades.

Answer 22

Mongols

Question 23

The USSR was governed according to ________ ideas.

Answer 23

communist

Question 24

The Soviet Union survived until the economic and political problems made the government end in __________.

Answer 24

1991

Question 25

Diverse population in Russia resulted from centuries of geographic growth add political change.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

The Soviet Union did not allow religious practice for nearly 20 years.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

How to say Muslims makeup between 50 and 55 percent of the population in Russia.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

Imperialists are political leaders who want to take over other countries to make their own country larger and more powerful.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

When the Bolsheviks gained control of the country in 1922, the new nation was called _________________.

Answer 29

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or the Soviet Union.

Question 30

As a response to Soviet invasion and religious restrictions, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan created a government using the teachings of __________.

Answer 30

Islam

Question 31

In 1917, the people of Russia became so tired of fighting and dying in World War 1 that they overthrew their king, _____ _______ ___.

Answer 31

Tsar Nicholas 11

Question 32

A year after the new Russian Provisional Government promised democratic elections and equal rights for all, it was overthrown by radical _______ led by Vladimir Lenin.

Answer 32

Bolsheviks

Question 33

_______ _____, the leader of Russia following Lenin’s death, completed Lenin’s process of creating a totalitarian state.

Answer 33

Joseph Stalin

Question 34

Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan fell into civil war and from this emerged an intolerant, extreme Islamic movement called the _______.

Answer 34

Taliban

Question 35

Leinin based his ideas on the theories of communism put forward by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

By the 1980s, relations between the United States and the USSR had gone from bad to worse as a nuclear arsenals on both sides grew during the Cold War.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

The USSR and most of the rest of Central Asia based their economies on the principles of market capitalism.

Answer 37

False

Question 38

The Russian Federation adopted its constitution in 2003.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

In 1999, the Russian Prime Minister _______ _______, later made president, oversaw the invasion of Chechnya after a Chechen terrorist attack within Russia.

Answer 39

Vladimir Putin

Question 40

Central Asia’s five former Soviet republics- _________, _________, _________, _________, and _________- have each established similar forms of government modeled on the system Russia created.

Answer 40

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Question 41

_______ has an average life expectancy of 49 and literacy rate of less than 30 percent.

Answer 41

Afghanistan

Question 42

Throughout 1800s into the 1900s, Russia, Afghanistan, and Great Britain were involved in a tense dispute over boundaries known as _________.

Answer 42

The Great Game

Question 43

With an extremely conservative Islamic government in control, Afghanistan became headquarters for al-Qaeda and its leader,_______ ______ _______.

Answer 43

Osama bin Laden

Question 44

________ became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan in 2004.

Answer 44

Hamid Karzai

Question 45

Afghanistan has access to many major bodies of water, such as oceans or seas.

Answer 45

False

Question 46

One of the few crops that grow well on Afghanistan’s limited farmland is the opium poppy which is used to produce several drugs.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives launched a successful attack on the World Trade Center, in New York City, and the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C., using civilian aircraft as weapons.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Dependence on foreign aid in Afghanistan has created a culture of compassion that makes economic development thrive.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

Afghanistan was first formed in the middle of the 1700s, when a leader, _______, _______, _______, united the Pashtun peoples.

Answer 49

Ahmad Shah Durrani

Question 50

In response the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., U.S. and British forces began air strikes against targets in Afghanistan and began providing support for a local resistance group called the _________ _________.

Answer 50

Northern Alliance