7.18.W - 18-Week Exam Review (Practice) [SECTION 3]

Which river is located in the far eastern portion of Russia and forms a natural border between Russia and China?

Amur River

Which body of water in Central Asia used to be the fourth largest lake in the world but has now shrunk to only a fraction of the size it used to be due to extensive irrigation?

Aral Sea

Which body of water served as Russia's primary access to sea trade early in the nation's history?

Baltic Sea

Which mountain range in southwestern Russia contains the nation's highest peak, Mount Elbrus?

Caucusus Mountains

Foreign countries have begun investing in Central Asia to help the region develop the infrastructure it needs to extract its natural resources and to connect Europe and Asia. Which country is the largest of these foreign investors?

China

What gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning since 1971?

Darvaza

What is the most common religion in Central Asia?

Islam

The most nuclear-bombed area on Earth is the Semipalatinsk Test Site. In which country is it located?

Kazakhstan

What is the deepest freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Baikal

What Soviet leader decided to relax government control of the economy and allowed for limited market economy?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Who invaded Russia in the early 1200s and controlled the Russian states indirectly for over two hundred years?

Mongols

Which of the following is a reason why most of Russia has cold temperatures?

Much of Russia's territory lies away from the oceans.

The Princes of ____________ served the Mongols but eventually formed the nation of Russia.

Muscovy

What landform is located primarily in Tajikistan and forms a barrier between Central Asia and Southwest Asia?

Pamir Mountain Range

What city in Uzbekistan dates back to the eighth century BC and became a center of trade and learning because of its location on the Silk road?

Samarkand

What city is known as Russia's "window on Europe"?

St. Petersburg

Which of the following is a famous Russian composer?

Tchaikovsky

Russia & Central Asia

This quiz will cover the material in the module "Russia & Central Asia." Take this practice quiz as part of your review process, but don't rely on this alone for your studying! Go back and review the lessons covered by this quiz and make sure you understand the concepts discussed in each of them.

What railway in Russia, finished in 1916, crosses the entire nation and carries thirty percent of its export goods?

Trans-Siberian Railway

Due to Soviet rule, most people in Central Asia speak Russian, but there are numerous other languages and dialects in the region that descend from primarily ________ roots.

Turkic

Who believed that communism should be adopted by the entire world and said, "Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done"?

Vladimir Lenin

Although Central Asia has a variety of climates, most of the region is covered with _____________.

arid deserts

What form of dance is Russia renowned for?

ballet

The southern portion of the Northern European Plain in Russia contains rich black soil called _________.

chernozem

What two primary crops were grown in Central Asia under Soviet rule but have begun to decline today?

cotton and wheat

What is the greatest enduring legacy of the Soviet Union in Central Asia?

environmental damage in the region

What were camps built in Siberia that were used to punish political dissidents and to extract resources?

gulags

The peoples of Central Asia descend from ______________.

merchants that traveled the Silk Road

An important Russian delicacy is caviar, which is ___________.

salted fish eggs

Southwest and central Russia have vast expanses of unforested flat grasslands called _________.

steppes

A climatic region that has extreme low temperatures with only mosses and shrubs is called a ______________.

tundra