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100
This is a traditional pot for delivering and serving tea and coffee.
What is a samovar?
100
Russia is so large it is part of these two continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
100
This sea began to shrink when its water supply was diverted for irrigation.
What is the Aral Sea?
100
This is the central government area in central Moscow.
What is the Kremlin?
100
This regions name means "the sleeping land".
What is Siberia?
200
This labor camp was prevalent in Siberia during the time of the USSR for people who disagreed with its policies.
What is a gulag?
200
Russia is so large it crosses this many time zones.
What is eleven?
200
This railway eventually connected Moscow with Vladivostok, thus opening Siberia to economic development.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
200
These toys are wooden figures of decreasing size that nest inside one another.
What are Matrioshka dolls?
200
This geogreaphic feature separates Russia from the United States.
What is the Bering Strait?
300
This ethnic group comprises 85% of the Russian people.
What are Slavs?
300
This soil type is also called the black earth belt.
What is chernozem?
300
Russia had difficulty transitioning from this type of government as the USSR to a democratic one.
What is communism?
300
These jeweled art objects were given as royal gifts at Easter by the Imperial families of Russia.
What are the Faberge Eggs?
300
This geographic feature connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean west of Siberia.
What is the Bering Strait?
400
This is the religion that most of Russia practices.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
400
These mountains divide Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
400
The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl is but one example of this type of economic problem in the region.
What is pollution?
400
This city used to be called Leningrad, after the founder of communism in Russia, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
What is St. Petersburg?
400
This lake is the deepest in the world and holds 20% of the world's fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
500
This is the common religion of the countries just to the south of Russia.
What is Muslim?
500
This massive land is the largest part of Russia and begins east of the Ural Mountains.
What is Siberia?
500
Limited transportation, the vast size of the country, and this, limits the development of the natural resources of Russia.
What is climate?
500
This ocean borders the entire northern edge of Russia.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
500
This will go a long way to ensure that you pass the World Geography Mid-Term exam.
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