World Geo Chpt. 17
1. T or F - Russia's industrial heartland is located in the *Dnieper River* basin
False that is the Volga River
7. T or F - Russia's taiga region is one of the worlds main grain producing areas
False that is the steppe
11. T or F - The first czar of Russia was Peter the Great
False that was Ivan the IV
9. T or F - The main ethnic group to settle in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus were the Mongols
False they were the Slavs
15. T or F - The first leader of the Soviet Union was Karl Marx
False
5. T or F - Vladivostok is Russia's only ice free Arctic port
False that is Murmansk
19. T or F - Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine have in recent years been moving toward a command economy
False - a free market economy
14. T or F - The Russian revolution was brought about the Autarky
False - brought by the Bolsheviks
4. T or F - The part of Russia located east of the Ural Mountains is knows as Belarus
False - known as Siberia
1. Mongols from Central Asia destroy Kiev
1240
8. Ivan IV crowns himself czar of all Russians
1547
7. Russians spread into the Caucasus and Central Asia
1800s
2. Russian serfs are freed, but rural poverty does not end
1860
6. Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government
1917
4. Vladimir Lenin dies, and Joseph Stalin takes power
1924
3. The Soviet Union Collapses, and the Soviet republics become independent
1991
5. Kiev becomes an important center for trade
AD 800
28. The largest swamp in Europe is
C. Pripet Marshes
44. Which city has been called the Venice of the North
C. St. Petersburg
20. T or F - One of the worst environmental disasters in history occurred at a nuclear power plant in Murmansk
False - that was in Chernobyl
23. T or F - A major reason that some Russians have chosen to move to Siberia is the lower cost of living
False - they moved there to work because wages are higher
16. T or F - Soviet economic planners established a policy of capitalism, which called for the country to produce all the goods it needed
False -that is autarky and they set up a command economy
55. Location of Russia's first Geothermal power station
L. Kamchatka
32. Where can large oil reserves be found in Russia
b. East of the Ural Mountains in the Ob River Basin
36. Who took control of the Soviet Union after Lenin died
b. Joseph Stalin
33. What city became an important center for trade between the Mediterranean and the Baltic sea areas in the 1800s
b. Kiev
10. T or F - The most powerful state during Mongol rule was Muscovy
True
12. T or F - The eastward expansion of Russia was accomplished with the help of the Cossacks
True
13. T or F - Serfs were farmers who were bound to the land
True
17. The main religion of the region is Eastern Orthodox Christianity
True
18. T or F - Heavy Industry involves manufacturing based on metals
True
2. T or F - Russia is the worlds largest country in area
True
21. T or F - Russia's most important economic region is located around Moscow
True
22. T or F - The Trans-Siberian Railroad is Russia's most important transportation link
True
24. T or F - Sakhalin Islands lies of the eastern coast of Siberia in the Sea of Okhotsk
True
25. Ukraine's heavy industry is located in the Ural Mountains and along the Dnieper River
True
3. T or F - Gold and Diamond mines are found in eastern *Siberia*
True
6. T or F - Mt. Elbrus is is the highest point in Europe
True
8. T or F - Ukraine's highest point is located in the Carpathian Mountains
True
26. Which of the following is a contributing factor to Siberia's harsh winters
b. Moderating ocean winds cannot reach inland
45. Which of the following is not a common crop in Ukraine
b. Rice
29. What type of Biome is located along the Northern coast of Russia
b. Tundra
50. Factories that produce metal ores
b. smelters
31. Which of the following is not a major south flowing river
a. Ob
43. Which of the following is not an important industry in Siberia
a. Tourism
34. Who were the Rus
a. early Scandinavian traders
40. Which country still uses pete as an important fuel source
c. Belarus
37. Which region of Russia is predominately Muslim
c. Chechnya
51. to resign as monarch
c. abdicate
35. Whose reign saw the inclusion of many non- Russian people into the Russian empire in the late 1700s
d. Catherine the Great
27. Russia stretched across
d. Eurasia
30. Which of the following is not a climate found in Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine
d. Marine west coast
38. What is the capital of Belarus
d. Minsk
42. Where is Russia's heavy industry located
d. Volga River and the Ural Mountains
39. What is borscht
d. a type of soup
41. Which of the following has not occurred in the difficult transition to communism
d. decrease in health care
53. Forest region composed of evergreen trees
e. Taiga
46. Network of Labor camps in the old Soviet union
f. Gulag
47, The production of consumer goods
g. light industry
49. Ships that can break up ice in frozen waterways
h. icebreakers
52. city located on the Sea of Japan
i. Vladivostok
48. Islands between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean
j. Kurils
54. a zone of frequent boundary changes and conflicts
k. Shatter belt