Geo. Ch. 13 Flash Cards

Question 1

What is linked to the Arctic Coast by the White Sea-Baltic Canal, and second largest city in Russia?

Answer 1

• St. Petersburg

Question 2

What is the main pacific port that is accessible year round thanks to huge icebreakers?

Answer 2

• Vladivostok

Question 3

What is the first Russian city?

Answer 3

• Novogorad

Question 4

Who was the first president of post-Communist Russia?

Answer 4

• Yeltsin

Question 5

Who was Russian dictator during World War 2?

Answer 5

• Stalin

Question 6

Who was the second president of post-Communist Russia?

Answer 6

• Putin

Question 7

Who was the first Russian ruler in 1547?

Answer 7

• Ivan the Terrible

Question 8

Who was the last ruler of the Soviet Union, responsible for the reforms that led to the fall of the Soviet Empire?

Answer 8

• Gorbachev

Question 9

Who led the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Answer 9

• Lenin

Question 10

Russia historically lacked ____ ____ ______ that has influenced its foreign policy?

Answer 10

• Warm water seaport

Question 11

What title refers to the rulers of Russia from 1547 to 1917?

Answer 11

• Czar

Question 12

What was the name of the post World War 2 period of tension between Russia and America?

Answer 12

• Cold War

Question 13

What is the dominant religion in Russia?

Answer 13

• Russian Orthodox

Question 14

What is the name Russia and the other former Soviet republics assume after the fall of communism?

Answer 14

• Commonwealth of Independent States

Question 15

What is the new official name of the country of Russia?

Answer 15

• Russian Federation

Question 16

What massive fortress in Moscow represents Russian political power and influence?

Answer 16

• Kremlin

Question 17

What is the large, open space, once a marketplace, in which Lenin’s tomb is located?

Answer 17

• Red Square

Question 18

What is the Russian river that is the longest in Europe?

Answer 18

• The Volga River

Question 19

What mountain range divides European Russia from Asiatic Russia?

Answer 19

• Ural Mountains

Question 20

What peninsula in Pacific Russia includes 29 active volcanoes?

Answer 20

• Kamachatka

Question 21

What islands are a source of dispute between Russia and Japan?

Answer 21

• Kuril Islands

Question 22

What railroad links Russia’s European and Pacific ports?

Answer 22

• Trans-Siberian Railway

Question 23

What word means openness?

Answer 23

• Glasnost

Question 24

What is the name of the Russian executive branch, like the U.S. Vice President?

Answer 24

• Premier

Question 25

What city was known as Stalingrad during the Soviet Era?

Answer 25

- Volgograd

Question 26

What is the second most important river in Russia?

Answer 26

- Don River

Question 27

What is the vast grassland of Russia in the Black Earth region?

Answer 27

- Steppes

Question 28

Arctic Seaport

Answer 28

- Murmansk

Question 29

What is the fiercely independent nomads of Russia who were feared for their elite calvary?

Answer 29

- Cossacks`

Question 30

What are the great coniferous forests of Siberia?

Answer 30

- Taiga

Question 31

Breakaway republic that has caused trouble for Russia since 1991?

Answer 31

- Chechnya

Question 32

What is "special" about Siberia?

Answer 32

- Harsh climate - Have resources, but they freeze - Have high crime rate

Question 33

What are 3 strengths of Russia?

Answer 33

- Has a vast area of natural resources - Vladivostok is open year round - Has a democratic republic and economic reforms

Question 34

What are 3 weaknesses or Russia?

Answer 34

- Has cold water seaports - Bad stewards of their natural resources - Historic tendency to lean toward limited individual rights

Question 35

What is the legislature of Russia?

Answer 35

- The Federation Assembly (divided into 2 houses)

Question 36

What is the capital and largest city in Europe?

Answer 36

- Moscow

Question 37

How many countries does Russia border?

Answer 37

- 14

Question 38

Who created the USSR?

Answer 38

- Lenin

Question 39

What countries did the USSR seize?

Answer 39

- Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Question 40

Oblast

Answer 40

- large region similar to a state or province, Russia has 50 of them

Question 41

Okrugs

Answer 41

- ten large, sparsely populated areas, mostly in the north

Question 42

How many of Russia's krais' are governed by Russia?

Answer 42

- six

Question 43

Volga-Baltic Seaway

Answer 43

- aided to help bring supplies in from the ocean

Question 44

Karelia

Answer 44

- flat glaciated plain north of St. Petersburg

Question 45

White-Sea Baltic Canal

Answer 45

- 141 mile wide that links the sea to the Volga-Baltic Highway

Question 46

Kola Peninsula

Answer 46

- lies north of Karelia

Question 47

Russia is the leading producer of ______

Answer 47

- nickel

Question 48

Kalinigrad

Answer 48

- Russia's other port on the Baltic Sea

Question 49

Black Earth

Answer 49

- rich in hummus and nutrients, this is a productive land

Question 50

What is the highest of the Caucasus Mountains?

Answer 50

- Mount Elbrus

Question 51

Yekaterinburg

Answer 51

- named after Katherine 1st and Chelyabinsk; each have over 1,000,000 people

Question 52

Novosibirsk

Answer 52

- (New Siberia); about 50,000 people and is the largest city in SIberia

Question 53

Taymyr Peninsula

Answer 53

- lower north coast; the northernmost mainland area in the world

Question 54

Sakha

Answer 54

- largest Russian republic; has the world's harshest climate of any inhabited area

Question 55

Autocrasts

Answer 55

- rulers who have established limits on their authority or power

Question 56

Autonomous Republic

Answer 56

- a self-governing republic