Geography Flashcards
Georgia capital:
Tbilisi
Russia capital:
Moscow
Armenia capital:
Yerevan
Azerbaijan capital:
Baku
¿What countries are between the Black and Caspian Sea?
Georgia, Armenia , Azerbaijan.
Who controlled the Caucasus during the 1800s?
Russians
Group of people were subject to ethnic cleansing during World War 1?
Turks
Is the vast area between the Urals and the Pacific ocean:
Siberia
Most important river in western Russia:
Volga River
Is a vast forest of evergreen trees:
Taiga
Is Russia’s most important farming area:
Steppe
What is Cyrillic ?
a form of the Greek alphabet
What is czar?
emperor
Kiev:
Ukraine
A radical Russian communist group
Bolsheviks
Is a harsh Soviet labor camps often located in Siberia:
gulags
What are Dachas?
Russians country houses
What is smelters?
factories that process metal ores,
What is trans-Siberian Railroad?
This rail line runs from Moscow to Vladivostok on the east coast, and is the longest single rail line
in the world.
One of the worst ethnic conflict that Russia faces is:
Chechnya
Capital of Cyprus:
Nicosia
Capital of Syria:
Damascus
Capital of Lebanon:
Beirut
Capital of Israel:
Jerusalem
Capital of Jordan:
Amman
Capital of Turkey :
Ankara
The waterway that separate Europe and Asia is made up the :
Dardanelles , Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara
What river begins in Syria and flows south through Israel and Jordan?
Jordan River
