Russia & Eurasian Republic

The longest river in Europe that is located in western Russia:

• Volga River

• Rio Grande

• Caspian Sea

True or False: A taiga is a forest of mainly evergreen trees covering much of Russia.

• True

• False

The capital of Russia is:

• Moscow

• Siberia

• Vladimir

• St. Petersburg

The vast forest of the evergreen trees that covers about half of Russia is called the _________(steppe, taiga).

• Steppe

• taiga

Overtime, missionaries introduced Orthodox Christianity and Cyrillic, a form of the Greek alphabet which French still use today.

• True

• False: Russian

• False: Italians

The ______________, a Russian Communist group, seized power in the Russian Revolution.

• Czar

• Bolsheviks

• Kiev

• dachas

A smelter is a Russian country house.

• True

• False: dachas

• False: yurt

What is notable about the Trans-Siberian Railroad?

• its a major shipping source for resources

• its the longest singe rail line in the world

Pamirs:

• some of Central Asia's high mountains

• desert in Turkmenistan

• seas that is part of a large lake

A desert in Turkmenistan:

• Pamir

• Kara-Kum

• Kyzul Kum

• Yerevan