Which of the following landforms contains the vast majority of the population of Russia and the Republics?
A. Northern European Plain
B. West Siberian Plain
C. Central Siberian Plateau
D. Russian Far East
B. West Siberian Plain
Which of the following rivers flow near Moscow and carries 60% of Russia's river traffic?
A. Ob
B. Volga
C. Yenisey
D. Don
B. Volga
What group from Scandinavia established a settlement near Kiev in the 800s?
A. Slavs
B. Finns
C. Huns
D. Vikings
D. Vikings
What is the political and economic system in which the government holds nearly all political power and the means of production (control of the economy)
A. Communism
B. Capitalism
C. Mixed
D. Traditional
A. Communism
What was the major source of much of the conflict between Russia and republics in the Caucasus region following the breakup of the U.S.S.R.?
A. Religion
B. Money
C. Ethnicity
D. Nuclear Weapons
C. Ethnicity
Many geographers consider which of the following landforms to be dividing line between Europe and Asia?
A. The Volga River
B. The Ural Mountains
C. The Northern European Plain
D. The Arctic Ocean
Because Russia and the Republics cover such an expanse of territory, the region
A. crosses roughly eleven time zones
B. has a poor economy
C. has three climate zones
D. is very mountainous
A. crosses roughly eleven time zones
What Russian leader put an end to Mongol control of Russia?
A. Ivan the Terrible
B. Ivan the Great
C. Peter the Great
D. Nicholas II
B. Ivan the Great
What is the term for the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union?
A. M.A.D
B. The Red scare
C. Marxism
D. The Cold War
D. The Cold War
Rebels from what rebellious republic were blamed for series of bombings in 1999 that led to Russia invading?
A. Inigushetia
B. Chechnya
C. North Ossetia
D. Dagestan
B. Chechnya
The ownership of which of the following is currently disputed between Russia and Japan?
A. Kamchatka Peninsula
B. The Aleutian Islands
C. Hokkaido
D. The Kuril Islands
D. The Kuril Islands
20% of the world's fresh, non-frozen water is found in
A. the Aral Sea
B. Lake Baikal
C. the Caspian Sea
D. the Black Sea
B. Lake Baikal
What Russian leader moved to Russia's capital away from Moscow in an attempt to give Russia easier sea access to Western Europe?
A. Ivan the Terrible
B. Ivan the Great
C. Peter the Great
D. Nicholas II
C. Peter the Great
How many newly independent republics were formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991?
A. 11
B. 13
C. 15
D. 17
c. 15
After the Soviet Union collapsed, what type of economic system did Russia quickly move toward?
A. Capitalism
B. Communion
C. Socialism
D. Barter
A. Capitalism
Which of the following has been drastically altered and depleted by over-irrigation, losing around 80% of its original volume?
A. the Aral sea
B. Lake Baikal
C. The Caspian Sea
D. the Black Sea
A. the Aral sea
Russia possesses roughly what proportion of the world's timber supply?
A. 1/10
B. 1/5
C. 1/4
D. 1/2
A. 1/5
What was the name of the new forward capital built by Russian on the shore of the Baltic Sea?
A. Vladivostok
B. Semey
C. St. Petersburg
D. Moscow
C. St. Petersburg
Which of the following was a German philosopher that inspired the Soviets to build a communist nation?
A. Karl Marx
B. Immanuel Kant
C. Charles Darwin
D. Carl Jung
A. Karl Marx
Around which of the following years did the Soviet Union collapse?
A. 1914
B. 1941
C. 1991
D. 2000
C. 1991
Distance from the moderating influence of the sea is known as
A. Taiga
B. Subtropical
C. Continentality
D. Tundra
C. Continentality
The original Trans- Siberian railroad ordered by Russia's emperor linked western Russia to what eastern Russian seaport?
A. Kiev
B. St. Petersburg
C. Vladivostok
D. Magnitogorsk
C. Vladivostok
What is the economic system in which private individuals own most of the resources, technology, and businesses, and can operate them for profit with little control from the government?
A. Communism
B. Capitalism
C. Mixed
D. Traditional
B. Capitalism
What proportion of Russia is urbanized?
A. 1/4
B. 1/3
C. 1/2
D. 3/4
D. 3/4
A major economic obstacle faced by Russia due to its enormous physical size is known as
A. Distance Decay
B. Proximity
C. Resource Scarcity
D. Geographic Deficit
A. Distance Decay