Russian Geography Review

What are the traits of a market economy?

• Has elements of two economic types
• Private ownership, free trade, competition, most used
• Government makes all economic decisions, communist countries
• Make own goods, grow own food, barter, least used

What are the traits of a command economy?

• Make own goods, grow own food, barter, least used
• Has elements of two economic types
• Private ownership, free trade, competition, most used
• Government makes all economic decisions, communist countries

This biome's frozen soil can be described as permafrost

• Taiga

• Tundra

• Steppe

• Temperate Broad-Leaved Forest

What is the main factor that separates the biomes?

• Land

• Water

• Climate and Vegetation

• Longitude

The permanently frozen portion of land found below the surface is a Tundra climate is called __________.  

• Permafreeze
• Terra Fria
• Permafrost
• Glacier soil

Russian term for the vast subarctic forest, mostly coniferous forest, that covers much of Russian and Siberia

• tundra

• taiga

• steppe

• permafrost

wide, grassy plains of Eurasia; also, similar semiarid climate regions elsewhere 

• tundra
• chernozem
• steppe
• hydroelectric power

Which Russian biome has broad leaf trees, made up of deciduous trees?

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Temperate Forest

• Steppe

Which type of farm pays its farmers a wage?

• Kolkhozes

• Sovkhozes

Which type of farm pays farmers a share in the profits?

• Kolkhozes

• Sovkhozes