Final: Russia

Question 1

Political and economic philosophy arguing for government control of a nation’s property and production

Answer 1

Communism

Question 2

Near polar region of Russia dominated by small plants and animals

Answer 2

Tundra

Question 3

Economic philosophy arguing for private ownership and free market

Answer 3

Capitalism

Question 4

Southern regions of Russia dominated by fertile grasslands

Answer 4

Steppe

Question 5

Policy used by the collapsing Soviet Union for reconstructing economic systems

Answer 5

Perestroika

Question 6

Policy used by the collapsing Soviet Union to allow open political debate

Answer 6

Glasnost

Question 7

Title of Russian monarch

Answer 7

Czar/Tsar

Question 8

Trade of illegal goods

Answer 8

Black market

Question 9

Ukrainian term meaning “extermination by hunger” to describe the policy used by the Soviet gov against Ukraine

Answer 9

Holodomor

Question 10

Northern region of Russia dominated by forests and this trees

Answer 10

Taiga

Question 11

T/F: black market trade is rampant in Russia and is more prosperous than the legal market

Answer 11

True

Question 12

T/F: the current nation of Mongolia was once ruled by Russia

Answer 12

True

Question 13

T/F: the Mongolian Empire once ruled over the people of Russia

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F: Permafrost is stable to build on

Answer 14

False

Question 15

T/F: there’s several Russian ethnic groups in the northern Caucasus mountain region fighting for independence from the former Soviet Union

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Although Siberia is inhospitable it has many..

Answer 16

Oil and other mineral resources

Question 17

Where do most people in Russia live?

Answer 17

West (European side of Urals)

Question 18

What physical feature represents the dividing line between Asia and Europe?

Answer 18

The Ural Mountains

Question 19

Over the course of history the Russians have fought to defeat which 4 world powers?

Answer 19

Mongols, ottomans, Napoleon and Hitler

Question 20

During what war did the communist revolution break out in Russia?

Answer 20

WWI

Question 21

Political enemies of Russia gov. have been sent to labor camps in:

Answer 21

Siberia

Question 22

Why does Siberia have little infrastructure?

Answer 22

Extreme climates

Question 23

Largest religion in Russia?

Answer 23

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Question 24

Russian currency

Answer 24

Ruble

Question 25

P5+1

Answer 25

Five permanent members of the UN (China, France, Russia, UK, US) plus Germany

Question 26

Names country that has not been aided by dropping oil prices

Answer 26

Venezuela

Question 27

Not an old energy assumption

Answer 27

Global market factors in North American production along with OPEC's production

Question 28

Drop of oil prices may force Russia and Iran to pull back support from what nation?

Answer 28

Syria

Question 29

Surrendering a responsibility or authority

Answer 29

Abdicate