Russia Unit

Question 1

What is the name of the famous cathedral found in Moscow?

Answer 1

St. Basil’s Cathedral

Question 2

What is fertile soil in Russia called

Answer 2

Chernozem

Question 3

Where is the most arable land at?

Answer 3

Western russia

Question 4

What body of water is shrinking

Answer 4

The Aral Sea

Question 5

What is Russia’s longest river?

Answer 5

Volga

Question 6

Cotton is grown where?

Answer 6

The Aral sea

Question 7

What is the names of the little dolls that keep getting smaller

Answer 7

Matrioshka Dolls

Question 8

Who is Russia ruled by?

Answer 8

Soviets

Question 9

Russa has how many time zones

Answer 9

11 time zones

Question 10

What is a place of worship for Muslims

Answer 10

Mosque

Question 11

What type of infrusture does sibera have ?

Answer 11

Poor infrastructure

Question 12

What are the five countries in Central Asia

Answer 12

Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenista,Tajikistan and, Krygyzstan

Question 13

What crop does central Asia grow

Answer 13

Cotton

Question 14

What is the area called where the Kremlin and the St. Basil’s Church

Answer 14

Red square

Question 15

What are the two types of resources that Russia and Central Asia use

Answer 15

Renewable and Non renewable

Question 16

What is a site?

Answer 16

The physical location of a city

Question 17

What climate zone covers most of Siberia?

Answer 17

Taiga

Question 18

What is the capital of Russia?

Answer 18

Moscow

Question 19

True or False that Russia consumes more fossil fuels than produced

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Where is Lake Baikal located

Answer 20

Siberia

Question 21

What are Russia’s nonrenewable’s

Answer 21

Aluminum,Copper,Lead Zinc,Iron,Gold,and Silver

Question 22

What is the Name of the fertile soil also known as “Green earth”?

Answer 22

Chernozem

Question 23

Where is the Kamchatka Peninsula located

Answer 23

in Eastern Siberia

Question 24

How many rivers does Russia have?

Answer 24

3

Question 25

Why has the Aral Sea been shrinking?

Answer 25

Because of over irrigation in rivers that flow into it.

Question 26

What seas does Russia have fish in?

Answer 26

Black Sea, Caspian Sea,and the Pacific Ocean

Question 27

What are the mountains in the west or Russia called?

Answer 27

The Ural Mountians

Question 28

What is the cathedral in Moscow called

Answer 28

Saint basils cathedral

Question 29

Russia consumes more or less oil than it extracts

Answer 29

Less

Question 30

What river in Russia flows South to North

Answer 30

The Volga River

Question 31

What kind of economy was Russia from 1917 to 1990?

Answer 31

Command Economy

Question 32

What is the dividing line between Europe and Asia

Answer 32

The Ural Mountains

Question 33

What mountain range in Russia is the largest

Answer 33

The Ural Mountains

Question 34

Who ruled Russia before 1917?

Answer 34

Tsar

Question 35

What are the three things that cause the shrinking of the Aral Sea

Answer 35

the collapse of the local fishing industry the increase in pollution due to fertilizer run off pesticides and industrial waste and the increase in respiratory illnesses in the region

Question 36

What religion is Russia

Answer 36

Christianity

Question 37

Where is the Aral sea located

Answer 37

Central Asia

Question 38

What type of challenge is it if The resources in Siberia are difficult to develop due to climate, limited transportation links, and vastness of the country.

Answer 38

Economic

Question 39

Russia is what two latitudes

Answer 39

Russia is in the middle and high latitudes

Question 40

What is the part of Russia in Asia called?

Answer 40

Siberia

Question 41

What is the longest mountain range in Russia?

Answer 41

Ural

Question 42

What is the highest mountain in russia?

Answer 42

Mt Elbrus

Question 43

What is the deepest lake in Siberia?

Answer 43

Lake Baikal

Question 44

what kind of minerals does russa have

Answer 44

aluminum copper lead iron zinc gold and silver