World Geography: Chapter 15 Russia and the Republics Review

Four

How many time zones are there in the United States?

Siberia

Many of the region's resources are located in frigid arctic and subarctic regions of _____________.

Steppe

The ____________________ is the name of the temperate grassland that extends from southern Ukraine through northern Kazakhstan to the Altay Mounta

International Date Line

The _____________________ sits at 180* longitude

Kyzyl Kum

The _______________________ is located in western Uzbekistan.

Prime Meridian

The _______________________ is used as the starting point of the tine zones.

Czar

emperor of Russia

Aral Sea

Between 1960 and the present, the ____________________ lost about 80 percent of its water.

Continentality

Distance from the moderating influence of the sea

Caucasus

In the southwest, the ____________________ Mountains stretch across the isthmus that separates the Black and Caspian seas

Subtropical

Moist air arriving from the Mediterranean Sea gives Transcaucasia a _____________climate

Chernozem

One of the world's most fertile soils

Runoff

Rainfall not absorbed by soil

Three

Russia and the Republics are approximately how many times larger than the United States?

Japan

Russia seized the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands from _________________ after WW II.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Russia's "General Winter" succeeded in defeating the French leader ____________________ and his troops.

Permafrost

Temperatures in Siberia are so consistently low that much of the region is covered by a layer of permanently frozen subsoil called __________________

Pesticides

The Aral sea's shrinking shore exposed fertilizer and ____________________, as well as salt

75%

The Northern European Plain is home to about ____________ of the region's population.

Tundra

The _____________ region falls mostly in the arctic climate zon

Arctic Basin

The ______________ is the largest drainage basin in the Russian region

Caspian

The _______________ Sea is the largest inland sea

Volga

The ___________________, the longest river in the region, drains into the Caspian Sea

Trans-Siberian Railroad

The ____________________ is a massive human-environment interaction that covers over 5,700 miles and crosses 7 time zones

North European Plains

The _______________________ stretches for over 1,000 miles between the western border of Russia and the Republics and the Ural Mountains.

Irrigation

The flow of water into the Aral sea was reduced because of ____________________

Kara Kum

The large desert that lies within Turkmenistan is _________________.

Eurasia

The name given to Europe and Asia as one continent.

Siberia

The name of the part of Russia that lies on the continent of Asia

West Siberian Plain

The rivers of __________________ flow north because of the tilt of the land.

Ural Mountains

They separate the Northern European and West Siberian plains

Tundra, Steppe, Forest and Desert

What are the four major vegetation regions of Russia and the Republics?

Turan Plain

What southern plain in Central Asia contains the Kara Kum and the Kyzyl Kum deserts.

Coniferous

What vegetation is the most common in Russia and the Republics?

Lake Baikal

____________________ is the deepest lake in the world

Central Asia

____________________ is a region that includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Ethnic Conflicts

_____________________________ made Transcaucasia an unsafe destination for tourist.

Taiga

A forest that lies south of the tundra

Transcaucasia

A region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

Thaws

As the ground in Siberia___________________buildings sink, tilt, and eventually topple over.

Central Siberian Plateau

East of the Yenisey River lies the ____________________, a land dominated by uplands and mountain