Russia Flashcards

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Russia Flashcards
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• Where is the Crimean Peninsula?
• In the Black Sea
• What is the climate like on the Crimean
  Peninsula?
• Temperate Grassland
• What products grow on the Crimean Peninsula?
• Citrus fruits, winter grains, vegetables.

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• What sea in central Asia is drying up and
  severely polluted?
• Aral
• What is causing this sea to dry up?
• Diverting the water to irrigate cotton and rice

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• Why are cotton and rice important?
• For food and income received from the export of
  the products
• What religion is mostly practiced in the Eurasian
  Republics that end with "stan" and Azerbaijan?
• Muslim

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• Russia and the Eurasian Republics cover
• 1/6 of all the land on the earth
• How many time zones are in Russia
• 11
• In 1917, the Bolsheviks set up a new government
  led by
• Vladimir Lenin

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• What was celebrated on May 1 in the former Soviet
  Union
• The first day of spring , which honored the
  workers
• Under the Soviet system, most farmers worked
• on collective farms owned and operated by the
  government

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• The border between Europe and Asia is formed by
  what mountain range?
• The Ural Mountains
• The border between China and Russia is formed by
  what?
• The Amur River

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• The largest country is the world is
• Russia
• What is Chernobyl?
• The site of a nuclear reactor accident in 1986
• The fortress that houses the government of Russia
  is the
• Kremlin it is located in Red Square

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• What is the large nine domed cathedral in Red
  Square?
• St. Basil's
• What is the name of the railroad that goes across
  Russia?
• Trans Siberian

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• Why does Russia have a difficult time
  transporting goods?
• The rivers are frozen over for ½ of the year
• Who was Lenin?
• The Father of Communism and the first Communist
  leader of the USSR

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• Who was Stalin?
• The leader of the USSR after Lenin. He conducted
  a reign of terror. He led Russia through WWII
• Who was Gorbachev?
• Leader of Russia during the fall of Communism

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• Who is Vladimir Putkin
• President of Russia today
• Who is Boris Yeltsin?
• First elected President of Russia after the fall
  of Communism
• Who was Nicholas II?
• Last Ramanoff Czar. He and his family were
  executed

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• In Russia and Central Asia, most people who
  practice a religion belong to the
• Orthodox
• The fertile soil found in the fertile triangle is
  known as.
• chernozem

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• The oldest and deepest lake in the world is
• Lake Baikal
• The largest forest region in the world is the
• Coniferous or the Taiga of Russia

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• The process of turning fertile land into a desert
  or drying up a lake that becomes a desert is
  called
• desertification
• The pollution crisis in the former Soviet Union
  and central Asia was caused by
• Focus on production of consumer goods

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• Because of the many rivers in Russia and Central
  Asia there is an abundance of
• hydroelectric power
• If a person wanted to travel across Russia, what
  would be the most logical means of travel?
• Trans Siberian Railroad

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• The city that provided an ice-free port for
  Russia and known as the window to the west was
• St. Petersburg
• Farming and industry is located in which region?
• The Fertile Triangle.

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• The cities that developed along the Trans
  Siberian Railroad are
• Novosibirsk and Vladivostok
• The climate of Russia and the countries of
  Central Asia can best described as
• extreme cold weather over the region