Physical Geography
How does the Amur River differ from other main Siberian rivers?
What is it drains east instead of north.
True or False - For most of their history, Central Asian countries were part of outside empires.
What is True?
Soviet leaders built dams in Central Asia mainly to produce this.
What is hydroelectric power?
True or False: The first humans in Siberia came from North America.
What is False?
Uzbekistan’s capital and Central Asia’s largest city.
What is Tashkent?
How did Communist victory affect the Caucasus?
What is the creation of three Soviet socialist republics?
A treeless zone found near the Arctic Circle
What is tundra?
From the late 1400s, these two empires competed for control of the Caucasus.
Who are the Ottomans and Persians?
This brutal dictator ruled the Soviet Union for much of the 1900s
Who is Joseph Stalin
True or False: Tajikistan is mainly rural with sparsely populated settled areas.
What is True?
An area of dry grasslands.
what is a steppe?
True or False: Most Azerbaijanis are Christians.
What is False?
An area of dry grasslands common in Central Asia.
What is the steppe?
This Central Asian conqueror rose to power in the mid-1300s
Who is Timur?
Forced labor camps spread across Siberia in the 1930s were called these.
What is gulags?
Most Armenians belong to this religion
What is Christianity?
A treeless Arctic zone.
What is tundra?
Which group mostly lives in Nagorno-Karabakh?
Who are ethnic Armenians?
Siberia’s taiga is swampy mainly because of this frozen ground beneath the soil.
What is permafrost?
Siberia officially became part of the Soviet Union in this year.
What is 1922?
Under Soviet rule, small farms were combined into these large state-run farms.
What are collectives?
This ethnic group fled Nagorno-Karabakh as violence increased.
Who are the Azeris?
A brutal Soviet dictator.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Why did Siberian industry grow along the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
What is transportation access for mining and industry?
One way the natural resources of the Caucasus differs from Siberia and Central Asia.
What is the Caucasus has fewer energy resources than the other two regions
The phrase "being sent to Siberia" most closely means this.
What is being exiled imprisoned, or disgraced?
How did the emigration of ethnic Russians following the end of Soviet rule affect Central Asia.
What is a shortage of skilled workers?
Why do many Armenians consider Turks to be their enemies?
What is the Turks murdered more than half of the Armenian population in the early 1900s
A powerful Central Asian conqueror
Who is Timur?
Why did Soviet leaders rely heavily on forced labor in Siberia?
What is to rapidly expand industry in a harsh environment?