Eastern Europe and Western Russia

The northern Ural Mountains are covered with grassy plains.

• True

• False

Early Slavs migrated from Southern Europe and settled in the area that now

includes Ukraine and Poland.

• True

• False

The transfer of industry to private ownership in Russia did not improve the living

conditions for most Russians.

• True

• False

The dominant religion in Russia and most Eastern European countries is the

Roman Catholic Church.

• True

• False

Russia still has boundary disputes with former Soviet republics like Estonia

and Ukraine.

• True

• False

vast, level area of grassy land

• upland

• steppe

• basin

• serf

• czar

Russian farm laborer who could be bought and sold in czarist times

• upland

• steppe

• basin

• serf

• czar

area of land that slopes gently downward from the surrounding land

• upland

• steppe

• basin

• serf

• czar

ruler of Russia before 1917

• upland

• steppe

• basin

• serf

• czar

area of high elevation

• upland

• steppe

• basin

• serf

• czar