Vocabulary 15
Master of vocabulary 15
Vocabulary 16
Master of Vocabulary 16
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The name of the region crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
What is Siberia?
100
___ is the landmass named after the continents of Asia and Europe.
What is Eurasia?
100
The emperors of the Russian Empire were called ___.
What is a czar?
100
In a ___ economy, the central government makes all the economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
100
The crown jewel among the region'a lakes, the deepest lake in the world, and it holds 20% of world's fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
200
Which region is located south of the Caucasus Mountains?
What is Transcaucasia?
200
Russia and the republics receive limited ___ because of the region's distance from the surrounding seas.
What is precipitation?
200
These three Soviet republics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) are located on the ___ Sea.
What is the Baltic?
200
The Soviet military was called the __ ___.
What is the Red Army?
200
The __ Sea is actually a saltwater lake and stretches for 750 miles. It is the largest inland sea in the world.
What is the Caspian Sea?
300
___is a fertile soil found on the Northern European Plain.
What is chernozem?
300
The __ ___ range is the major boundary line between Europe and Asia.
What is the Ural Mountain range?
300
Another name for the Soviet Union?
What is USSR? (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic)
300
The name of the 20th century conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
What is the Cold War?
300
The ___ Sea lost about 80% of its water from two rivers since the 1960s.
What is the Aral Sea?
400
If ___ holds dangerous substances, it will affect the rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water in which it flows.
What is runoff?
400
The tilt of the __ __ __ affects the flow of the rivers, which flow northward.
What is West Siberian Plain?
400
The __ ___ ended the rule of the czars.
What is the Russian Revolution?
400
This caravan route contributed to the growth of magnificent trading cities such as Samarqand.
What is the Silk Road?
400
The ___ Mountain stretch across the land that separates the Black and Caspian Seas.
What is the Caucasus Mountain range?
500
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are the five republics located in __ ___.
What is Central Asia?
500
This railway was built between 1891-1903.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
500
The name of the felt-covered dwellings of Central Asian nomads.
What is a yurt?
500
The Soviet Union turned agriculture into an industry with __ __.
What are collective farms?
500
The West Siberian Plain lies between the Urals and the Yenisey River. Because the plain tilts northward, its rivers flow northward toward the __ ___.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
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