SS Flashcards
_____ is the largest country on earth, spanning the continents of Europe and Asia.
Russia
_____ is the capitol of Russia.
Moscow
_____ is considered the cultural epicenter of Russia.
St. Petersberg
Most of Russia has a _____climate.
Subarctic
True or False - Russia is known for its tropical forests.
False
True or False - Uzbekistan’s, Turkmenistan’s, and Afghanistan’s vegetation is predominantly desert.
True
True or False - Natural Gas is the primary resource for economic activity in Afghanistan.
Flase
True or False - Russia is comprised of many different ethnic groups.
True
The _____ __________, which most geographers consider the border between Europe and Asia, run through Russia’s western portion.
Ural Mountains
The primary religion in Russia is _______ ________.
Eastern Orthodox
The area called _____ reaches from the Ural mountains to the Pacific Ocean .
Siberia
_______ remain two major exports from the Central Asia region.
Oil and cotton
In 1812, the French emperor, _____ invaded Russia and successful captured.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Ukrainian ______ power plant had a meltdown in 1986 resulting in the deaths of 32 people and causing radiation contamination to spread over millions of acres of land where may thousands of people had to be evacuated.
Chernobyl
True or False - Russia’s population is double the population of the United States.
False
True or False - Northern Siberia is mostly tundra, a frozen, treeless area.
True
True or False - Sweden lost The Great Northern War, which was fought between the countries of Sweden and Russia.
True
True or False - The Aral Sea is shrinking because the main feeding rivers, the Amu and Syr, have been largely diverted for irrigation purposes.
True
The large-scale movement of Siberian people began only after the completion of the ________________ in 1905.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
During the Cold War, in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded __________.
Afghanistan
The tribe called Rus founded the state that became Russia at the city of _____.
Kiev
During the 1200s, ______ invaded parts of Russia and ruled these areas for several decades.
Mongols
The USSR was governed according to _________ Ideas.
Communist
The Soviet Union survived until economic and political problems made the government end in ____.
1991
True or False - The diverse population in Russia resulted from centuries of geographic growth and political change.
True
True of False - The Soviet Union did not allow religious practice for nearly 20 years.
False
True or False - Practicing Muslims make up between 50 and 55 percent of the population in Russia.
False
True or False - Imperialists are political leaders who want to take over other countries to make their own country larger and more powerful.
True
When the Bolsheviks gained control of the country in 1922, the new nation was called______________________.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
As a response to the Soviet invasion and religious restrictions, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan created a government using the teachings of ______.
Islam
In 1917, the people of Russia became so tired of fighting and dying in World War 1 that they overthrew their king, _________.
Tsar Nicholas 2
A year after the new Russian Provisional Government promised democratic elections and equal rights for all, it was overthrown by radical ________ led by Vladimir Lenin.
Bolsheviks
__________, the leader of Russia following Lenin’s death, completed Lenin’s process of creating a totalitarian state.
Joseph Stalin
Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan fell into civil war and from this emerged an intolerant, extreme Islamic movement called the______.
Taliban
True or False - Lenin based his Ideas on the theories of communism put forward by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s.
True
True or False - By the 1980s, relations between the United States and the USSR had gone from bad to worse as a nuclear arsenals on both sides grew during the Cold War.
True
True or False - The USSR and most of the rest of Central Asia based their economies on the principles of market capitalism.
False
True or False - The Russian Federation adopted its constitution in 2003.
False
In 1999, Russian Prime Minister ________ _______, later made president, oversaw the invasion of Chechnya after a Chechen terrorist attack within Russia.
Vladimir Putin
Central Asia’s five former Soviet republics - _________, _________, _________, ________, and ___________ - have each established similar forms of government modeled on the system Russia created.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
________ has an average life expectancy of 49 and a literacy rate of less than 30 percent.
Afghanistan
Throughout the 1800’s and into the 1900’s, Russia, Afghanistan, and Great Britain were involved in a tense dispute over boundaries known as ______________.
The Great Game
With an extremely conservative Islamic government in control, Afghanistan became a headquarters for al-Qaeda and its leader.
Osama bin Laden
__________ became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan in 2004.
Hamid Karzai
True or False - Afghanistan has access to many major bodies of water, such as oceans or seas.
False
True or False - One of the few crops that grow well on Afghanistan’s limited farmland is the opium poppy which is used to produce several drugs.
True
True or False - On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives launched a successful attack on the World Trade Center, in New York City, and the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C., using civilian aircrafts as weapons.
True
True or False - Dependence on foreign aid in Afghanistan has created a culture of compassion that makes economic thrive.
False
Afghanistan was first formed in the middle of the 1700’s when a leader, _______________, United the Pashtun Peoples.
Ahmad shah Durrani
In response to the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., U.S. and British forces began air strike against targets in Afghanistan and began providing support for a local resistance group called ________ ________.
Northern Alliance
Thousands of Years ago, the first civilizations in China grew from farming communities which developed in the valley surrounding ______, also known as the Yellow River
Huang
_______ people have lived in cold, mountainous west region more than 12,000 years ago. ______ people move with their animals, usually yak, sheep, goats, and cattle from pasture to pasture.
Tibetan
Although the provinces along the eastern coast of China are less than one-third the size of the rest of the country that are home to about ________ of China,s population
90 percent
__________ has made Japan wealthy but has created a manufacturing for humans and the environment
Manufacturing
True or False - South Korea has energy stores of its own (oil, natural gas, or coal) to fuel its industry.
False
True or False - Before 1948, North and South Korea were known simply as Korea.
True
True or False - China has the world’s largest population
True
True or False - About two-thirds of China’s energy comes from hydroelectric energy.
False
To construct the _____ ______ ____ builders had to create a deep trench of water for more than 400 miles long, which drowned mare than 100 towns, and More than 1.2 million people had to be moved
Three Gorges Dam
The ________ ______ appears to be yellow color as a result of the pollution and silt.
Yangtze River
The desert in the western portion of China is called the _______________.
Taklamakan Desert
______ is the capital of China.
Beijing
Mongolia’s main economic activity is _____________.
Nomadic Herding
The _________ is the fifth largest desert in the world and the largest in Asia.
Gobi desert
True or False - The elevation of Mt. Everest is 29,035 ft (8,850 m) above sea level.
True
True or False - Japan’s population density is more than double the population density of Mongolia.
True
True or False - North Korea and South Korea’s primary vegetation is Tropical forest.
False
True or False - The dominant climate in Taiwan is Tropical Monsoon.
Flase
The majority religion in China is _________.
Buddhism
China’s deserts are getting bigger due to ______________.
Desertifacation
_______ was likely first grown by humans in the Yangtze Valley in China 11.500 years ago.
Rice
_______ Focuses on peace and order in society
Confucianism
Laozi, who many believe to be the founder of _______ taught that people should live simple and natural lives and be in balance with nature.
Daosim
________ religions have religious leaders who claim magical powers and a connection with the gods.
Shamanism
True or False - Tai chi is a form of Mongolian martial arts.
False
True or False - Throat singing is traditional to China.
False
True or False - Haiku is a traditional form of Korean poetry that is known for its simplicity.
False
True or False - From 1633 to 1853, foreigners could not enter Japan because of the Japanese closed door policy
True
_____________ means “the process of becoming a citizen.”
Naturalization
A ________ is a series of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
Beginning with the reforms of 1868, Japan took on a _______with a powerful Monarch. This is called the Meiji restoration.
Constitutional monarchy
The United States enter the Korean War to prevent the spread of _______ throughout Asia
Communism
______ is the least populated nation in East Asia
Mongolia
In 1949, the communist leader Mao Zedong take control of _______.
China
True or False - By 1910, Korea became part of the nation of Japan and living under harsh Japanese rule.
True
True or False - The division along the 38th parallel separates the Korean Peninsula into the countries of East Korea and West Korea
False
True or False - From 1392 to the early 1900s, the Korean Peninsula was ruled by monarchy under the Joseon dynasty.
True
True or False - A recession is a period when economic growth increases.
False
After Korean war ended in 1953, South Korea became a republic in North Korea officially called the __________ became a totalitarian communist state
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
__ _______Is the current president of the People’s Republic of China and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
Xi Jinping
______ was not prepared for the force of the 30 foot waves on March 2011 tsunami, which left 15,854 people dead and 3,203 people missing.
Japan
in 1976, one of the deadliest earthquakes in history occurred in_______, killing more than 240,000 people.
China
Many of the world’s earthquakes, volcanoes,and tsunamis occur around the edges of the Pacific Ocean called the_____, Where the six strongest earthquake ever measured have occurred.
Ring of Fire
True or False - Most coastal cities in Japan have high, concrete walls to keep most tsunamis from flooding cites.
True
True or False - Japan is the least prepared country in the world for a typical tsunami.
False
True or False - The Pacific Plate is the smallest of all tectonic plates.
False
True or False - On March 11, 2011, the fourth strongest earthquake in recorded history hit Japan.
True
In 1923, a great earthquake struck Japan and destroy the capital city,_____ and killed more than 140,000 people.
Tokyo
________are large waves that are mainly caused by earthquakes, underwater landslides, or volcanic eruptions.
Tsunamis
