Russia

What challenge keeps Russia from obtaining some of its minerals?

• Rebels hold the region where resources are found
• Permafrost makes it difficult to drill and build mines
• Grain fields are located over the underground deposits
• The resources lies in deserts where people refuse to work

What leader tried to reform the Soviet Economy?

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Vladamir Putin
• Ronald Reagan
• Josef Stalin

To travel from Asian Russia to European Russia, what direction would you go?

• north
• east
• south
• west

What divides European Russia from Asian Russia?

• Arctic Circle
• Siberia
• Caspian Sea
• Ural Mountains

How does the Trans-Siberian Railroad help the world economy?

• gives jobs to railroad workers from Europe
• make Russia the world's tourism leader
• links east Asia to Europe for trade
• replaces slow ships as transportation

What was one of Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas for reform?

• get rid of ethnic groups
• change the borders and spread Russian language
• make himself more powerful
• reduce government control of economy

What is a large region of Russia that is not very populated?

• Kiev
• Siberia
• Moscow
• Hungary

The most popular religion in Russia is Roman Catholicism?

• True
• False

Russia lies close to the North Pole and close to this geographic place. 

• Arctic Circle
• Antarctica
• Prime Meridian
• Equator

The most populated city in Russia is

• Kiev
• Moscow
• Berlin