Russia and Central Asia Test

The southern part of the Russia’s best agricultural region has rich, black soil called

• chernozem

• oxisols

• tar sands

• planosols

During the Soviet era, the Soviet Union operated as a _________ in which the government made key economic decisions

• free market

• black market economy

• traditional economy

• communist economy

What is the term for the by-products of producing nuclear power and weapons?

• nuclear power plants

• nuclear wastes

• nuclear meltdown

• nuclear pollution

During the reign of Peter the Great, Russia

• erupted into a civil war that became the Russian Revolution

• enlarged its territory and developed trade with Western Europe

• was invaded by Mongols from Central Asia

• conquered the countries of Scandinavia

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

• tundra

• subarctc

• temporal

• tropical

The Ural Mountains mark the traditional boundary between

• Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula

• Russia and Mongolia

• European Russia and Siberian Russia

• Russia and Poland

What type of biome is found in Russia’s subarctic?

• permafrost

• boreal forest

• deciduous forest

• grassland

Farmers use Russia’s areas of rich chernozem soil to grow

• sugarcane, bananas, and pineapples

• coffee, cotton, and soybeans

• wheat, barley, rye, and oats

• grapes, olives, and citrus fruits

What happened after the 1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union?

• Nuclear safety standards were improved and dangerous plants were shut down

• The Soviet Union replaced all existing nuclear plants with newer, safer nuclear plants

• All nuclear power plants in the Soviet Union were shut down

• The socialist republic where it occurred was permanently closed to human settlement

Beginning in 1989, many countries in Eastern Europe that had been ________ of the Soviet Union began to replace their Communist governments

• protectorats

• territories

• satellites

• colonies