Russia Exam

Question 0

A mountain range in Russia that extends 1,000 miles from the Artic Ocean to the Aral Sea

Answer 0

Ural Mountains

Question 1

One of the worlds most fertile soil’s also known as black earth.

Answer 1

Chernozem

Question 2

A term used to describe the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.

Answer 2

Eurasia

Question 3

A region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

Answer 3

Transcaucasia

Question 4

A region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Answer 4

Central Asia

Question 5

The part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia.

Answer 5

Siberia

Question 6

A regions distance from the moderating influence of the sea.

Answer 6

continentality

Question 7

A nearly continues belt of evergreen coniferous forests across the northern hemisphere , North America and Eurasia.

Answer 7

taiga

Question 8

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

Answer 8

runoff

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Baltic Republics

Question 11

Emperor of Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Answer 11

czar

Question 12

The revolt of 1917, in which the Russian Communist Party led by V. I. Lenin, took control of the government from the czars.

Answer 12

Russian Revolution

Question 13

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991.

Answer 13

USSR

Question 14

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after WW2, called “cold” because it never escalated into open warfare.

Answer 14

Cold War

Question 15

A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production. Also called a planned economy.

Answer 15

command economy

Question 16

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

Answer 16

collective farms

Question 17

The name of the Soviet Union’s military.

Answer 17

RedArmy

Question 18

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

Answer 18

supra

Question 19

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

Answer 19

SilkRoad

Question 20

Struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for control of Central Asia in the 19th century.

Answer 20

Great Game

Question 21

A person with no permanent home who moves according to the season from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

Answer 21

Nomads

Question 22

A tent of Central Asia’s nomads.

Answer 22

yurts

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Caucasus

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Chechnya

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Nagorno–Karabakh

Question 26

The selling of government-owned business to private citizens.

Answer 26

privatization

Question 27

A term referring to the concept that increasing distance between places tend to reduce interactions between them.

Answer 27

distance decay