Russia Y9

Question 1

What is Russia’s capital?

Answer 1

Moscow

Question 2

What was before Russia in 1300

Answer 2

A small state called Muscovy

Question 3

What happened in 1547?

Answer 3

Ivan the terrible declared himself tsar (emperor) over all of russia

Question 4

What happened in 1917

Answer 4

A revolution that deposed Nicholas II

Question 5

What happened in 1919

Answer 5

Revolution where Bolshevik party come in to power. Lenin was the leader

Question 6

When did Lenin die

Answer 6

1924

Question 7

Who took over after Lenin

Answer 7

Joseph starlin led the USSR

Question 8

When was the Cold War

Answer 8

Second half of 20th century

Question 9

Who was the final communist leader

Answer 9

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 10

Who was the first leader of the new Russian federation

Answer 10

Boris Yeltsin

Question 11

Who ruled after Boris Yeltsin

Answer 11

Vladimir Putin

Question 12

What are the five main biomes in Russia

Answer 12

Tundra
Taiga
Steppe
Temperature Deciduous Woodland
Mountain

Question 13

What is the vegetation in temperate deciduous woodland

Answer 13

Oak and ash trees

Question 14

What is the vegetation in steppe

Answer 14

Grasses

Question 15

What is the vegetation in mountain

Answer 15

Coniferous trees -lower slopes
Grasses, mosses, lichen on upper slopes

Question 16

What is the vegetation in taiga

Answer 16

Coniferous trees

Question 17

What is the vegetation in tundra

Answer 17

Low growing shrubs, grasses, mosses and linchens

Question 18

What biomes have permafrost

Answer 18

Taiga -in the north
Tundra

Question 19

What biomes are in the article circle

Answer 19

Tundra
Taiga -only the very north

Question 20

What is steppe

Answer 20

Fatal soil-often converted to cropland or grazing land for livestock

Question 21

What is it called when the climate is too cold for trees to grow?

Answer 21

Tree line

Question 22

What is taiga

Answer 22

Also known as the boreal forest, trees have needles rather than leaves and are all evergreen

Question 23

What is tundra

Answer 23

Lots of lakes and marshes in the summer months

Question 24

What is a biome

Answer 24

A very large area with similar climate, plants and animals

Question 25

Definition of population distribution

Answer 25

A description of how people are spread out within an area

Question 26

Definition of population density

Answer 26

A measure of the average number of people per square kilometre in an area

Question 27

Population of Russia

Answer 27

147 million people

Question 28

How many districts is Russia divided into?

Answer 28

8 federal districts

Question 29

What are the eight federal districts?

Answer 29

Central Far Eastern North Caucasian North Western Siberia Southern Urals Volga

Question 30

Where is Russia more densely populated

Answer 30

In European Russia

Question 31

How do you workout population density?

Answer 31

Amount of people divided by of amount of areas

Question 32

How does a chloropleth map show population density

Answer 32

The darker the colour the bigger the population density

Question 33

Why is it so hard for anyone to conquer Russia?

Answer 33

Trying to attack from Asia to Russia is hard because the urals are in the way. The only way through the European side is Poland, which is pretty narrow making it hard to enter.

Question 34

Why does Russia’s geography make it difficult to maintain food security for the country?

Answer 34

Very few railway lines go through other countries as it would have to go through the Urals

Question 35

What percentage of Russia’s population is in Asian Russia?

Answer 35

22%

Question 36

What are the seven geopolitical power projections undertaken by Russia in recent years?

Answer 36

Invasion of Ukraine World Cup and Winter Olympics Salisbury Novichok poisonings Syrian Civil War Doping scandal 2016 US election tampering Belarus oil supply

Question 37

Name 5 countries bordering Russia

Answer 37

China, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Finland