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