4th Six Weeks Review

What two continents meet in Russia’s Ural Mountains?

• Europe and Antartica

• Europe and Asia

• Asia and Africa

• Europe and Africa

The Caucasus Mountains form a border between Russia and_________.

• Georgia

• Ukraine

• Turkey

• Caspian Sea

Russia capital and largest city is?

• Saint Petersburg

• Moscow

• Kiev

• Muscovy

Siberia is best described as a?

• Small region with a tropical climate

• Vast area with harsh climate.

• Flat marshy land with a mild climate.

• Barren plain with a dry, desert climate.

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

• Ivan the Destroyer

• Ivan the Terrible

• Ivan the Savage

• Ivan the Paranoid

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

• Vikings

• Slavs

• Mongols

• Bolsheviks

During the fall of the Soviet Union, its leader was ______________.

• Vladamir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Peter the Great

• Mikhail Gorbachev

.) The Russian Federation is governed by an elected president and a legislature called the ___________.

• Federal Assembly

• Soviets

• Senate

• Bolsheviks

During the Cold War, the communist government of the Soviet Union…

• defeated the United States violent war

• released millions of citizens from gulags

• Was a superpower that competed with but did not fight the USA

• fought against Nazi Germany

The vast forest that covers much of Russia is called ______________.

• Taiga

• Steppe

• Uplands

• Tundra