Deck 6: The Russia-Central Asia Realm

Question 1

The coniferous forest vegetation found to the south of the tundra is known as: _________________.

A) taiga
B) Mediterranean
C) permafrost
D) tundra
E) steppe

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Russian Revolution of 1917 ________________.

A) saw the czars defeat the communists
B) ended a long-running civil war
C) saw the overthrow of the last czar
D) led to Moscow being renamed Leningrad
E) made Russia itself a weak, territorially small presence in the new USSR

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is not an ex-Soviet,Central Asian Republic?

A) Uzbekistan
B) Turkmenistan
C) Azerbaijan
D) Kazakhstan
E) Tajikistan

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Soviet Union consisted of _____________ Soviet Socialist Republics.

A) 4
B) 12
C) 15
D) 43
E) 89

Question 5

__________ was responsible for building a new Russian capital on the Gulf of Finland during the eighteenth century.

A) Catherine the Great
B) Peter the Great
C) Ivan the Terrible
D) Vladimir Rasputin
E) Vladimir Lenin

Question 6

Czar Peter the Great attempted to turn the city of ________________ into the "Venice of the North".

A) Moscow
B) Kiev
C) Amsterdam
D) St. Petersburg
E) Vladivostok

Question 7

The movement of the headquarters of the Russian Empire to St.Petersburg allowed that city to become a(n)__________________.

A) interior capital
B) forward capital
C) primate city
D) continental city
E) Asian gateway

Question 8

As Figure 5-3 shows,_____________ is (are)the only part of the Russian realm with a humid temperate climate:

A) the area near the Black Sea
B) the area around Moscow
C) Russian lands bordering the Caspian Sea
D) extreme southeastern Russia
E) the area along the southern Russia-northern China border

Question 9

The _____ Mountains lie in the corridor between the Black and Caspian seas.

A) Ural
B) Central Asian
C) Crimean
D) Siberian
E) Caucasus

Question 10

The majority of Russia falls within the humid cold climate region.In the Köppen-Geiger classification scheme,this is signified by the letter ______.

A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E

Question 11

What was a prime motivation for Russia's colonial expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

A) access to mineral wealth
B) access to warm-water ports
C) access to trade routes with China and Japan.
D) access to the commercial wealth of Western Europe.
E) access to the Western Hemisphere.

Question 12

Which of the following states is NOT officially part of this realm?

A) Armenia
B) Georgia
C) Kazakhstan
D) Belarus
E) Siberia

Question 13

Persistently frozen ground is known as ________________.

A) taiga
B) an ice sheet
C) permafrost
D) tundra
E) steppe

Question 14

Which of the following is true?

A) Climate refers to current conditions at a given location.
B) Weather refers to long-term average conditions.
C) Russia's climate may be described as dominated by C climates.
D) Climate refers to long-term average conditions.
E) Russia has no E climates.

Question 15

According to Figure 5-4,the vast majority of Russia's population lives __________.

A) along Russia's southern rim
B) west of the Ural Mountains
C) along the coastline of the Arctic Ocean
D) in the river valleys east of the Ural Mountains
E) near the Sea of Okhotsk

Question 16

The term ________ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.

A) maritimity
B) tundra
C) continentality
D) taiga
E) longitudinality

Question 17

Russia's territorial size is such that it encompasses ___ time zones.

A) 3
B) 7
C) 9
D) 11
E) 15

Question 18

The vegetation that dominates a high-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses,lichens,and sparse grasses)is known as _______________.

A) tundra
B) oligarctic biomass
C) permafrost
D) taiga
E) steppe

Question 19

The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is (incorrectly)regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the _________________.

A) Western Uplands
B) Urals
C) Caucasus
D) Central Asiatic Ranges
E) Carpathians

Question 20

Most of the population of Russia is found in the ______________.

A) western part of the country
B) Pacific coastal zone
C) southern tier of the country
D) zone of C climates
E) area just south of the Ural Mountains

Question 21

Russia's railroad network radiates outward from Moscow,thereby providing the city with a high degree of ___________.

A) inaccessibility
B) centrality
C) diversity
D) continentality
E) complementarity

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT found in Russia west of the Urals?

A) the realm's core area
B) Moscow
C) the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbas)
D) the Volga-Don Canal
E) C climates

Question 23

A country's core area _______________.

A) often contains the capital city
B) incorporates the nation's largest population cluster
C) contains the region with the country's most efficient communications networks
D) exhibits the country's strongest cultural imprints
E) displays all of the characteristics listed above

Question 24

According to figure 5-7 which ethnic group is most heavily concentrated around Lake Baykal:

A) Armenian
B) Buryat
C) Caucasus
D) Kalmyk
E) Turkic

Question 25

Distance-decay effects are greatest between Moscow and ____________.

A) St. Petersburg
B) the Urals region
C) the Caucasus region
D) northern Central Asia
E) Vladivostok

Question 26

Figure 5-14 shows that all of Russia's major manufacturing regions are located _____________.

A) west of the Ural Mountains
B) along coastlines
C) east of 60˚ East longitude
D) south of 60˚ North latitude
E) along the Volga River

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT currently an independent country that was once part of the Soviet Union?

A) Moldova
B) Georgia
C) Latvia
D) Chechnya
E) Ukraine

Question 28

The former Soviet Union dissolved in ______.

A) 1917
B) 1923
C) 1945
D) 1989
E) 1991

Question 29

The __________ form(s)the eastern limit of the Russian Core:

A) Caucasus Mountains
B) Ob River
C) Volga River
D) Ural Mountains
E) the Trans-Siberian Railroad

Question 30

The Russian Federation's change from 83 "Regions,Republics,and other entities" into eight new administrative units occurred in ______.

A) 1917
B) 1923
C) 1945
D) 1991
E) 2000

Question 31

The Russian port of ______ is kept open year-round by warm water from the North Atlantic.

A) Vladivostok
B) Volgograd
C) Murmansk
D) Novosibirsk
E) Baki (Baku)

Question 32

St.Petersburg _______________.

A) lies on the doorstep of Siberia, a binding force between the eastern and western halves of Russia
B) was always a competitor for Moscow but did not become the capital of Russia until the 1917 Revolution
C) was formerly called Leningrad
D) lies at the head of the Sea of Okhotsk
E) has always been the country's most important Black Sea port

Question 33

Each of the following is considered one of the BRICS except __________.

A) Brazil
B) Russia
C) India
D) China
E) Canada

Question 34

The Volga River is central to which Russian subregion?

A) Kuzbas
B) Urals
C) Southeastern Frontier
D) Povolzhye
E) Central Asia

Question 35

The BRIC countries all have ___________ in common:

A) a Eurasian location
B) recent economic growth
C) rapid population growth
D) socialist governments
E) predominantly rural populations

Question 36

Russia's core area ____________.

A) includes the great cities of the Far East
B) centers on St. Petersburg and includes such urban places as Vladivostok and Kiev
C) incorporates the Central Industrial Region, at the heart of which lies the city of Moscow
D) has now shifted eastward into Siberia beyond the Urals
E) extends into recently absorbed Eastern Europe and now includes Poland and Hungary

Question 37

The Povolzhye has been helped by all of the following except ________________.

A) the Volga-Don Canal
B) large petroleum reserves
C) the Volga River
D) the coal deposits that gave rise to the Kuzbas complex
E) distance from European conflicts

Question 38

Which three manufacturing regions form the anchors of the Russian core area?

A) Central Industrial, Volga, Ural
B) Amur, Volga, Siberia
C) Danube, Central Industrial, Southern Periphery
D) Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
E) Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

Question 39

Which Russian republic fought a war for independence from Moscow during the 1990s?

A) Chechnya
B) Georgia
C) Crimea
D) Sakha (Yakutiya)
E) Kosovo

Question 40

The number of Federal Administrative Districts within the Russian Federation is _______.

A) 21
B) 89
C) 177
D) 412
E) 8

Question 41

The Transcaucasian Transition Zone includes all of the following except ___________.

A) Georgia
B) Armenia
C) Azerbaijan
D) Nagorno-Karabakh
E) Kyrgyzstan

Question 42

The capital of the Chechen Republic is _______________.

A) Baki (Baku)
B) Chechensk
C) Tbilisi
D) Ingushetiya
E) Groznyy

Question 43

The Kuzbas ____________.

A) is located near the city of Novosibirsk
B) is also called the Kuznetsk Basin
C) lies in the Southeastern Frontier region
D) contains both iron and coal deposits
E) all of the above

Question 44

Which of the following cities is the leading oil-producing center in Azerbaijan?

A) Sakhalin
B) Novorossiysk
C) Baki (Baku)
D) Groznyy
E) Ceyhan

Question 45

According to Figure 5-16,this city is closest to the Volga-Don Canal:

A) Rostov
B) Volgograd
C) Astrakhan
D) Yerevan
E) Groznyy

Question 46

This former Soviet Socialist Republic borders Turkey and remains in conflict with an oil-rich neighboring state over its exclave of Nagorno-Karabakh:

A) Greece
B) Azerbaijan
C) Georgia
D) Armenia
E) Turkmenistan

Question 47

This Caspian Sea-facing Russian Republic contains more than 20 culturally discrete communities and borders the Chechen Republic:

A) Ingush Republic
B) Mari Republic
C) North Ossetian Republic
D) Dagestan Republic
E) Kazakh Republic

Question 48

This exclave of Armenia is located within Muslim Azerbaijan.

A) Georgia
B) Chechnya
C) Abkhazia
D) Nagorno-Karabakh
E) Kurdistan

Question 49

Which region is not part of the territory of the Russian Federation?

A) the Russian Core
B) the Southeastern Frontier
C) Siberia
D) the Far East
E) Transcaucasia

Question 50

The former Soviet Socialist Republic on the Black Sea containing the birthplace of Stalin is _________.

A) Moldova (Moldavia)
B) Ukraine
C) Georgia
D) Crimea
E) the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Question 51

This former Soviet Socialist Republic contains the oil city of Baki (Baku)and its people have ethnic affinities with Iran.

A) Azerbaijan
B) Moldova
C) Georgia
D) Armenia
E) Turkmenistan

Question 52

Armenia is engaged in territorial conflict with which other former Soviet Socialist Republic?

A) Georgia
B) Afghanistan
C) Azerbaijan
D) Ukraine
E) Turkmenistan

Question 53

The territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is _________________.

A) Kurdistan
B) Abkhazia
C) Ajaria
D) Nagorno-Karabakh
E) West Ossetia

Question 54

The dominant religion in Chechnya is _______________.

A) Chechen Orthodox
B) Buddhism
C) Roman Catholicism
D) Islam
E) None of the choices are correct

Question 55

The new pipeline opened in 2006 carries Caspian Sea oil from Baki (Baku)to a new terminal in the country of _______________.

A) Russia
B) Armenia
C) Iran
D) Turkmenistan
E) Turkey

Question 56

The most important oil and gas reserves in Russia's Far East are centered on ________________.

A) the waters between Russia and Japan's southern islands
B) Sakhalin
C) the Trans-Siberian Railroad corridor
D) the Chinese border zone
E) Vladivostok

Question 57

Which of the following Russian manufacturing complexes is located in the Southeastern Frontier region?

A) Povolzhye
B) Urals
C) Kuzbas
D) Central Industrial
E) Central Asian

Question 58

Figure 5-15 shows that the Far East's ;argest oil and gas deposits border the _________________.

A) Kamchatka Peninsula
B) North Korean corridor near Vladivostok
C) Amur River
D) Kurile Islands
E) Sea of Okhotsk

Question 59

Which of the following peoples look across their border to Iran because they share a common Shi'ite Muslim faith?

A) Persians
B) Armenians
C) Azeris
D) Chechens
E) Turks

Question 60

The industrial area just to the east of the Kuzbas is centered near __________.

A) the Urals
B) Uzbekistan
C) Lake Baykal
D) Baki (Baku)
E) Vladivostok

Question 61

Russia is the world's largest state in population size.

Question 62

Russia's population today is about the same size as that of the United States.

Question 63

The official launching of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics took place in 1924.

Question 64

The great majority of Russia's inhabitants are concentrated to the east of the Ural Mountains.

Question 65

The Russian Plain is essentially an eastward continuation of the North European Lowland.

Question 66

According to Figure 5-2,the city of Novosibirsk lies in the permafrost zone.

Question 67

Russia's mineral wealth has been fully realized in a modern industrial economy that is highly diversified.

Question 68

The mountain ranges in the north of Russia act as a significant barrier to the flow of Arctic air masses,resulting in a warmer climate than might otherwise be expected.

Question 69

Global warming will increase Russia's maritime access to the world.

Question 70

Russia's czars first came to power as a result of the Russian Revolution.

Question 71

Moscow has continually served as the Russian/Soviet/Russian capital city since the rule of Peter the Great.

Question 72

The massive territorial expansionism we associate with Russia began in the 1920s with the arrival of communism.

Question 73

The north-south mountain range in west-central Russia that is falsely regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is called the Ural Mountains.

Question 74

The Ural Mountains,which run north-south across the Russian Republic,are a formidable obstacle to east-west transportation.

Question 75

Russia is about twice as large as Canada in area.

Question 76

Murmansk was established as a forward capital on the Barents Sea.

Question 77

In general,the north and west of Russia are flat,the south and east are mountainous.

Question 78

The Russian population today totals just over 200 million.

Question 79

The Russians,in their eastward push across Eurasia,eventually settled Alaska.

Question 80

The Urals are Russia's tallest,most dominant mountain range.