GPY 235 (Chapter 2)

The Soviet Union consisted of _____ Soviet Socialist Republics.

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The breakaway territory of Georgia, originally supported by the RussiAnswer, is:

Abkhazia

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

Azerbaijan

Which people look across their border to Iran because they share a common Shi'ite Muslim faith?

Azeris

Which city is the leading oil center in Azerbaijan?

Baki (Baku)

The major mountain range located in the land corridor between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea is the:

Caucasus

Russian imperialism in the nineteenth century was aimed chiefly at:

Central Asia

Which three manufacturing regions form the anchors of the Russian Core Area?

Central Industrial, Vogal, and Ural.

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

Centrality

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

Contonentiality

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

D

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.

D. Climate refers to long term average conditions.

Which of the following statements is incorrect? A. Russia's core area centers on Moscow. B. Moscow lies at the heart of what is commonly called the Central Industrial Region. C. Nearly all Russian cities are overcrowded with most people residing in cramped living quarters. D. One of Moscow's chief locational attributes is its coastal site on an arm of the Baltic Sea. E.The Bolsheviks restored Moscow as the capital after the 1917 Revolution.

D. One of Moscow's chief locational attributes is its coastal site on an arm of the Baltic Sea.

This Caspian Sea-facing Russian Republic contains 30 distinct nationalities, is located next to the Chechen Republic, and is dominated by agriculture and oil:

Dagestan Republic

Which is not an important Russian manufacturing region?

Donbas Region

The Kuzbas: A. Contains the city of Novosibirsk. B. Is also called the Kuznetsk Basin. C. Lies in the Eastern Frontier region. D. Contains both iron and coal deposits. E. All of the above.

E. All of the Above.

A country's core area: A. Often contains a state's 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.

E. Display's all of the characteristics above.

Which of the following statements is false? A. The Soviet system bound the economic geography of the republics to the center. B. The absence of competition in the Soviet Union made managers complacent. C. Often, the Soviet Union assigned the production of particular good to particular locations, ignoring basic principles of economic geography. D. Many RussiAnswer still live in the 14 now independent republics of the former Soviet Union E. The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still exist it were not for overriding ethnic differences.

E. The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still exist it were not for overriding ethnic differences.

Following the fall of Kyyiv (Kiev) to the Tatars, the Rus of Leningrad became the center of Russian power (true or false).

False

Moscow has continually served as the Russian/Soviet/Russian capital city since the rule of Peter the Great (true or false).

False

MurmAnswerk was established as a forward capital on the Barents Sea (true or false).

False

Nakhodka is the eastern terminus of the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad (true or false).

False

St. Petersburg, with respect to the Russian domestic market, has greater locational (situational) advantages than Moscow (true or false).

False

The RussiAnswer, in their eastward push, eventually reached Alaska, but they never entered the territory of the conterminous (Lower 48) United States (true or false).

False

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

False

The development of the Russian Far East has benefited significantly to date from the region's geographic proximity of Japan (true or false).

False

The eastward migration of RussiAnswer to the Pacific coastal zone since 1991 has been so great as to overburden the available accommodations there, and restrictions have been necessitated (true or false).

False

The massive territorial expAnswerionism we associate with Russia came after 1917 with communism (true or false).

False

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 (true or false).

False

The Soviet planners called their system a ________.

Federation

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

Forward Capital

Russia's core area:

Incorporates the Central Industrial Region, at the heart of which lies the city of Moscow.

Which of the Soviet programs was the most successful?

Industrilization

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

Lake Baykal

This exclave of Armenia is 75 percent Armenian, but is located within Muslim Azerbaijan.

Nagorno-Karabakh

The territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is:

Nagotno-Karabakh

Which statement about Russia and North America is false?

Next to Canada and Mexico, Russia is the third closest neighbor of the United States.

Which city was known as the Soviet Detroit?

Nizhniy Novgorod

Persistently frozen ground is known as:

Permafrost

__________ was responsible for consolidating Russia's gains in the early 1700s and in making a European-style state out of the loosely knit country.

Peter the Great

The term _________ refers to a huge state farm and literally meAnswer "a grain and meat factory" in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak.

Sovkhoz

The coniferous forest vegetation on the equatorward side of the tundra is known as:

Taiga

Which is not found in Russia west of the Urals?

The Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbas)

Japanese investment in Russia's Far East has been held up by a longstanding dispute over:

The four tiny Kurile Islands.

Czarina Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition thrust was aimed at:

The warm-water of the Black Sea.

Although the Far East remains a sparsely populated area, Russian fishing fleets sail from Vladivostok into the Sea of Okhotsk (true or false).

True

Communism found fertile ground in the Russia of the 1910's and 1920's (true or false).

True

During the horrors of the Stalin era, dissidents were exiled to Siberia (true or false).

True

In general, the north and west of Russia are flat, the south and east are mountainous (true or false).

True

Moscow lies at the heart of the central industrial region.

True

Povolzhye is the Russian name for an area that extends along the middle and lower Volga River (true or false).

True

Sakhalin is an island that lies off the Russian Far East mainland (true or false).

True

Siberia is larger in territorial size than the conterminous U.S., but has a population of less than 20 million (true or false).

True

The large city near the southern end of Lake Baykal is Irkutsk (true or false).

True

The sovkhoz was the large-scale collectivized form of agriculture in the former Soviet Union (true or false).

True

The term Kuzbas is shorthand for the Kuznetsk Basin (true or false).

True

Under the Soviet economic system, assignment by Moscow, rather than market forces, controlled the development of places (true or false).

True

Whereas major industrial progress had been achieved under communism, the Soviet agricultural sector remained inefficient and a persistent problem (true or false).

True

The vegetation on a higher-latitude treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and sparse grasses) is known as:

Tundra

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

Ural Mountains

The mountain chain in west-central Russia that is sometimes regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is known as the:

Urals

The Povolzhye has not been helped by:

Virgin Land Schemes

St. Petersburg:

Was names Leningrad during Soviet times.

Most of the population of Russia is found in the:

West