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The type of climate in the former Soviet Union.
What is continental climate?
100
The longest river in the former Soviet Union, which helps form the border of Russian with China.
What is the Amur River?
100
The most highly populated city in Russia.
What is Moscow?
100
A freshwater lake with an outlet.
What is a tributary?
100
Earth is divided into 24.
What is times zones?
200
These two mountain ranges mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Urals and Caucasus mountains?
200
The countries that form the western border of the former Soviet Union.
What are Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungry?
200
Folk tales.
What are stories handed down from one generation to another?
200
The highest point.
What is a crest?
200
A treeless area.
What is a tundra?
300
The most common mineral found in Russia.
What are diamonds?
300
The geographic points of interest you could see on a trip down the Danube River.
What are the Black Forest, Hungarian Plain, Iron Gate gorge and the Black Sea?
300
Three of the major nationalities in the former Soviet Union.
What are Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Latvian/Lithuanian, Armenian, Georgian, Moldavian and Tajik?
300
A treeless plain.
What are steppes?
300
The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period in which summers are hot and winters are cold.
What is continental climate?
400
The Volga, Danube, Don, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Aral Sea, Lake Baikal.
What are the important bodies of water in the former Soviet Union?
400
They are the rivers that connect to the Black Sea.
What are the Danube, Dnieper, Don, Bosporus, and Dardanelles?
400
The alphabet used by the Russian and many other Eastern European people.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
400
A place where birds and animals are protected from hunters and others who would disturb them.
What is a sanctuary?
400
A narrow passage through land.
What is a gorge?
500
The man who first discovered that Russia was rich in minerals.
Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
500
These are the rivers that connect to the Baltic Sea.
What are the Vistula and Oder rivers?
500
The three countries in Eastern Europe that do not primarily speak a Slavic language.
What are Albania, Romania and Hungry?
500
The northern forest that have coniferous trees.
What is a taiga?
500
A few feet below the surface, the earth remains frozen.
What is a permafrost?