Where is...
A country to the East of Estonia, South of the Arctic, and West of Japan.
Russia
A place to sell illegal goods?
The Black Market
What two hemispheres are Russia and the Republics in?
Northern and Eastern
This is a body of water that was once the 4th largest freshwater lake in the world.
Aral Sea
Bonus: What caused it to shrink?
Which of the following countries is allied with Russia?
A. Armenia
B. Georgia
C. Ukraine
D. Turkey
A. Armenia
The Sea to the West of Russia, and North of Estonia.
Baltic Sea
A Russian name for a Russian Supreme Ruler?
Czar
What type of climate/Vegetation Zone is NOT found in Russia & the Central Asian Republics?
A. Arctic B. Sub Arctic C. Taiga
D. Desert E. Humid Sub-Tropical
F. Dry Grasslands
E. Humid Sub Tropical is NOT found here.
What is the majority people group from Kazakhstan
Kazakh
Which of the following pairs countries are NOT friendly towards Armenia?
A. Turkey and Russia
B. Turkey and Georgia
C. Turkey and Azerbaijan
D. Russia and Georgia
C. Turkey and Azerbaijan
A body of water to the East of Azerbaijan. Baku is located on it's shores.
Caspian Sea
A name for rich black soil in the Russian Steppes?
Chernozem
A. Shared Language B. Common Religion
C. Common Political History D. Common Climate
E. Common Ethnicity
C. Common Political History
BONUS: What is the name for the group of communist nations that all of these countries were once a part of?
What body of water is home to Russia's only ice-free port?
The Black Sea
BONUS: What is the name of the Peninsula where the base is located?
This country was the first in the world to use an Oil Platform to drill for oil in deep water.
Azerbaijan
BONUS: What sea did they drill in?
The mountain range between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.
Caucuses
A policy that required everyone to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
Russification
What are 3 examples of Human-Environmental Interactions in this region?
-Draining the Aral Sea for Irrigation
-Tourism on the Caspian and Black Seas
-Mining Fossil Fuels
-Terracing fields on slopes for farming
-Building using stone in the Caucuses Region
-Building Dams for Hydroelectric Power
-Clearing forest and earth-moving to make the Trans Siberian Railroad
What country is the only country in the Caucuses region to have a majority muslim population?
Azerbaijan
In the five "Stan" countries, we talked about two resources that the countries traded with one another, until they didn't. What were those resources?
Electricity and Water
A country sandwiched between Kazakhstan and China.
Kyrgyzstan
A forest belt covering 2/5th of Russia?
Taiga
(2 part answer!)
1. In the early 1900's what caused a mass migration of Armenians?
2. Who caused it?
1. The Armenian Genocide
2. The Ottoman Empire (The Turks)
What is the largest inland body of water in the world (by surface area)?
The Caspian Sea
BONUS: What is the deepest lake in the world?
In Central Asia, these are left over from the Soviet Era. They supply electricity, but have also contaminated the land when they failed.
Nuclear Power Plants