Russia's economy is limited due to its lack of mineral resources.
True of False
False
100
80% of Russians today speak ______ as their 1st language
a. Cyrillic
b. Russian
c. English
d. Polish
b. Russian
100
The 1st crowned czar was
a. Ivan the Great, in 1488
b. Ivan the Terrible, in 1533
c. Peter IV, in 1775
d. Joseph Stalin, in 1936
b. Ivan the Terrible, in 1533
100
The Volga River and its tributaries
a. are not used for transportating people and goods
b. connect Moscow to the North Sea
c. connect Moscow to the Caspian Sea
d. drain the eastern part of Russia
c. connect Moscow to the Caspian Sea
100
The Caspian Sea is
a. a saltwater lake with an outlet to the ocean
b. a freshwater sea
c. a saltwater lake
d. the world's largest freshwater lake
c. a saltwater lake
200
Most Russia's longest rivers are located in Siberia
True or False
True
200
Where do 75% of Russians live?
a. east of the Ural Mountains and south of Kazakhstan
b. in Siberia
c. between the Ural Mountains and Belarus and Ukraine
d. along the coastal areas of the North Sea
c. between the Ural Mountains and Belarus and Ukraine
200
The Russian Revolution in 1917 established
a. a representative government, but the revolution continued
b. the czar as the holder of power as long as he agreed to be a communist
c. the Eastern Orthodox Church as the center of power in Russia
d. Peter the Great as the leader of the country's new government
a. a representative government, but the revolution continued
200
A(n) ______ climate dominates Russia.
a. low-latitude
b. mid-latitude
c. subarctic
d. arctic
c. subarctic
200
What is the 2nd largest religion in Russia today?
a. Judaism
b. Buddhism
c. Christianity
d. Islam
d. Islam
300
The Volga River connects Moscow with which body of water?
A. the mediterranean Sea
B. the Pacific Ocean
C. the Caspian Sea
D. the Bering Sea
c. the Caspian Sea
300
Ethnic _______ make up 80 percent of Russia's population
a. Russians
b. Serbs
c. Muslims
d. Caucasians
a. Russians
300
During the late 1700s the Russian nobility
a. rejected western Europe as a decadent culture
b. embraced the ideas of Karl Marx
c. adopted the Muslim religion and customs
d. spoke French and adopted other western European ways
d. spoke French and adopted other western European ways
300
Russia's air, water, and soil were damaged by
a. the program called perestroika
b. free market forces for change from within the Soviet Union
c. Soviet disregard for the effects of industrialization
d. the Russian Revolution
c. Soviet disregard for the effects of industrialization
300
Russia depends primarily upon _______ for transportation
a. airplanes and cars
b. subways and trucks
c. railroads and waterways
d. cars and trucks
c. railroads and waterways
400
What is the Black Earth Belt?
a. an area in which the ground is frozen most of the year
b. a region in which farming is difficult because of the infertile soil
c. an area in which factories are most important to the economy
d. an area of rich soil whose farms feed most of Russia
d. an area of rich soil whose farms feed most of Russia
400
What was Kievan Rus?
a. a union of city-states organized by Scandinavian warriors
b. the first agricultural commune established by the Bolsheviks
c. an influential Russian czar of the 1400s
d. a rank of nobility that only a czar could bestow
a. a union of city-states organized by Scandinavian warriors
400
Moscow was settled after the Mongols
a. were defeated and retreated to the east
b. had not been seen in Russia for almost a century
c. agreed to help the Slavs build a new city
d. overran Kiev and forced the Slavs to leave
d. overran Kiev and forced the Slavs to leave
400
Which statement about Lake Baikal is accurate?
a. It is home to a very small number of plant and animal species
b. It holds 1/5 of the world's freshwater
c. It holds one-fifth of the world's salt water
d. It is a vacation destination for many Russians
b. It holds 1/5 of the world's freshwater
400
The Turkic peoples form the ____ family of ethnic groups in Russia
a. most rapidly declining
b. 3rd-largest
c. 2nd-largest
d. largest
c. 2nd-largest
500
The Caucasus Mountains separate European Russia from Asain Russia
True or False
False
500
The ideas of _____ are the basis for communism
a. Catherine the Great
b. Karl Marx
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Boris Yeltsin
b. Karl Marx
500
The black market in Russia is a(n)
a. illegal low-cost trade center
b. legal open-air trading market in most cities
c. illegal trade in scarce or illegal goods
d. former market for goods that no longer exists
c. illegal trade in scarce or illegal goods
500
Russia's taiga is the world's largest
a. wheat belt
b. freshwater lake
c. deciduous forest
d. coniferous forest
d. coniferous forest
500
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
a. the world's longest continuous railroad line
b. the major link between Moscow and Europe
c. the shortest railroad in Siberia
d. the best way to travel between Russia and Afghanistan