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Weaving it Together
100
This nation is the largest nation on the planet in terms of land size. It spans two continents and its capital city is often referred to as the Third Rome.
What is Russia?
100
This mountain range literally divides Europe and Asia, or so most geographers say. It is found in Russia. To its west, is the Northern European Plain and home to most of Russia's population. To the east is Siberia, a desolate region of Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
100
Today, the nations of Russia and the Central Asian Republics have an economy based on this style of economics, rather than the old command economy of Communism.
What is free market economics?
100
This form of dance is incredibly important culturally in Russia. This dance is set to music and tells a story without words.
What is Ballet?
100
This city, the capital of Russia, is home to St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin and Red Square. It is the birthplace of Russian civilization.
What is Moscow?
200
This nation, found east of the Caucasus Mountains and Caspian Sea, is known for its natural gas reserves. It is mostly covered by the Karakum Desert and was part of the Silk Road. This country is located south of Kazakhstan.
What is Turkmenistan?
200
This type of soil is incredibly fertile and is found in Western Russia on the Northern European Plain. Due to its high nutrient content, Russia is able to feed its large population.
What is chernozem/black earth?
200
Farming in Russia is concentrated in this region of Russia, home of the chernozem/black earth and the Northern European Plain. Use relative location terms to describe this answer.
What is Southwest/Fertile Triangle?
200
This building, home to Russia's government, is found in Red Square. It houses the Russian Parliament and the Office of the Russian President, as well as his home. It is located beside of Red Square and was famously blown up in Mission Impossible 4.
What is the Kremlin?
200
The two major ethnic groups found in Russia, aside from native Russians, are ________________ and ________________.
What are Turkic and Mongol?
300
This term, which literally means "land of" is attached to many of the nations found in this region of the world.
What is -stan?
300
The climate of the Siberian region is best characterized as
What is cold/subarctic/frozen/tundra, etc?
300
As nations develop and expand their economies, there is a greater need for water. However, over-consumption of water can lead to the destruction of the natural environment. This Sea, found in the region, is shrinking at an alarming rate, losing over 80% of its water in the last 50 years.
What is the Aral Sea?
300
These toys, which are common gifts in Russia, are famous due to their ability to sit inside one another. Each toy is successively smaller than the last and are all hand-painted to look like traditional Russian dress.
What are Nesting Dolls/Matrioshka Dolls?
300
This Russian city, once the Russian capital, sits on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the Northwest. It is of strategic importance to the Russian's due to it housing the Russian navy as well as a major port for trade in Russia.
What is St. Petersburg?
400
This nation, the largest of the stans, is the northernmost Central Asian nation. Its name literally means land of the Kazakhs. Its principal crop is wheat and it shares many cultural similarities to its northern neighbor, Russia, due to its long period of Soviet Communism.
What is Kazakhstan?
400
This freshwater lake, found in Russia, is home to some of the world's unique animals. This lake also is 20% of the world's freshwater supply.
What is Lake Baikal?
400
This type of infrastructure has made travel easier in Russia, connecting the western portion containing Moscow and St. Petersburg to the far East, which operates 11 hours ahead of the western states.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad/Railroad/Trains?
400
These gifts to the Russian Royal Family, or the Czars, are hand-crafted and encrusted with rare jewels like diamonds, opals, rubies, and sapphires. They are very expensive and very rare. These eggs are spread all over the world, 5 of which are in a museum in Richmond, Virginia.
What are Faberge Eggs?
400
This Sea, which is the center of international controversy over its legal definition, sits South of Russia, west of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, north of Iran, and east of Azerbaijan.
What is the Caspian Sea?
500
This Central Asian nation, and former Soviet republic, is known for its mosques, mausoleums and other sites linked to the Silk Road, the ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean. Samarkand, a major city on the route, contains a landmark of Islamic architecture: the Registan, a plaza bordered by 3 ornate, mosaic-covered religious schools dating to the 15th and 17th centuries.
What is Uzbekistan?
500
This mountain range, found South of Russia, serves as a natural barrier between Russia and the Republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Additionally, they run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
500
This major challenge of the physical environment has kept Russia from largely developing its natural resources, which has hindered/slowed Russia's true economic potential.
What is cold climate/Siberia/tundra/subarctic?
500
This church is the symbol of Orthodox Christianity and is found in the Red Square in Russia. It is characterized by its multi-colored onion shaped domes.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
500
DAILY DOUBLE - Wager any amount of points you would like (no more than your current score). Although this type of "clean" energy source is better for the environment than traditional energy sources like coal, this common source of electricity in Russia has damaged natural environments by causing the temperature to get too hot for life in this source of energy.
What is hydroelectricity/water energy?