RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS

What two continents meet in Russia's Ural Mountains?

• Europe and Antarctica
• Asia and Africa
• Europe and Asia
• Europe and Africa

The Caucasus region has lowlands along the shores of the ?

• Arctic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
• Sea of Okhotsk and Caspian Sea
• Black Seas and Caspian Sea
• Black Sea and Baltic Sea

The Caucasus Mountains form a border between Russia and

• Georgia and Azerbaijan
• Armenia and Ukraine
• Georgian and Siberia
• Ukraine and Azerbaijan

As czar, Ivan IV was such a cruel and savage ruler he became known as

• Ivan the Paranoid
• Ivan the Tyrant
• Ivan the Terrible
• Prince of Muscovy

Russia's capital and largest city is?

• Tbilisi
• Baku
• Kiev
• Moscow

The radical communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution was the ?

• Vikings
• Slavs
• Mongols
• Bolsheviks

Siberia is best described as a ?

• small region with a tropical climate
• vast area with a harsh climate
• flat, marshy land with a mild climate
• barren plain with a dry desert climate

During the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader was ?

• Vladimir Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Peter the Great
• Mikhail Gorbachev

What is Azerbaijan's economy based on?

• tourism
• diamond processing
• oil
• farming

Which city is the primary seaport and fishing center in the Russian Far East?

• Yekaterinburg
• St. Petersburg
• Kaliningrad
• Vladivostok