Geography 1

Question 0

The mountain ranges that separate the Northern European and West Siberian plains and used as the dividing line between Europe and Asia.

Answer 0

Ural Mountains

Question 1

Black topsoil, one of the worlds most fertile soil.

Answer 1

Chernozem

Question 2

The combined continent of Europe and Asia.

Answer 2

Eurasia

Question 3

A region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; located between the Caucasus Mountains and the borders of Turkey and Iran.

Answer 3

Transcaucasia

Question 4

Region that includes the republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Answer 4

Central Asia

Question 5

A region’s distance from the moderating influence of the sea.

Answer 5

Continentality

Question 6

A railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the pacific port of Vladivostok; built between 1891 and 1903

Answer 6

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Question 7

The countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.

Answer 7

Baltic Republics

Question 8

The emperor of Russia

Answer 8

Czar

Question 9

The revolt of 1917, in which the Russian communist party took control of the governments from the czars.

Answer 9

Russian Revolution

Question 10

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War 2, called “cold” because it never escalated into open warfare.

Answer 10

Cold War

Question 11

Type of economic system in which the production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production

Answer 11

Command economy

Question 12

An enormous farm in the Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalins reign.

Answer 12

Collective Farm

Question 13

The name of the soviet unions army.

Answer 13

Red Army

Question 14

Georgian ( Russian ) term for dinner party, with many dishes and courses, toasts, and short speeches

Answer 14

Supra

Question 15

The 4,000 mile route between China and the Mediterranean Sea, named for the costly silk acquired in China.

Answer 15

Silk Road

Question 16

A region that straddles the Caucasus Mountains and stretches between the Black and Caspian Seas

Answer 16

Caucasus Mountains

Question 17

One of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violent upheaval.

Answer 17

Chechnya

Question 18

The mountainous area of Azerbaijan, fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Answer 18

Nagorno-Karabakh

Question 19

The selling of government-owned business to private citizens.

Answer 19

Privatization

Question 20

A term referring to the concept that increasing distances between places tend to reduce interactions among them

Answer 20

Distance Decay