Russia Test Review

Farmers use Russia's area of rich chernozem soil to grow

• sugarcane, bananas, and pineapples
• coffee, cotton, and soybeans
• grapes, olives, and citrus fruits
• wheat, barley, rye, and oats

What type of climate is found along Russia's northern border?

• tundra
• subarctic
• temporal
• tropical

What Russian lake holds one-fifth of all unfrozen freshwater found on Earth?

• Baikal
• Barents
• Laptev
• Okhotsk

The ________________ form a natural barrier between European Russia and Siberian Russia.

• Ural Mountains
• Northern European Plain
• Caucasus Mountains
• Siberian Plain

Belarus is a landlocked country that lies entirely in the area known as the 

• Siberia Plain
• Northern European Plain
• Volgan Plain
• Caucasus Plain

The vast stretches of plains and plateaus of Eastern Russia that extend to the Pacific Ocean make up much of ________________. 

• the Northern European Plain
• Siberia
• the Ural Plain
• the Volgan Plain

The ________________ River extends 2,293 miles making it the longest river in Europe.

• Volga
• Dnieper
• Po
• Danube

The ________________ form a natural barrier between Russia and countries to the south.

• Ural Mountains
• Siberian Plain
• Volga Plain
• Caucasus Mountains

In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union called perestroika.

• True
• False

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of modern communism

• True
• False