Russia N Africa quiz 30

The ______________ form a natural barrier between European Russia and Siberian Russia

• Volga River

• Caucasus Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Russian Plains

The vast stretches of plains and plateaus of eastern Russia that extend to the Pacific Ocean make up much of_________.

• Northern European Plains

• Siberia

• southern Russia

• Northwestern Europe

The _____________ form a natural barrier between Russia and countries to the south.

• Caucasus Mountains

• Ural Mountains

• Caspian Sea

• Valdai Hills

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

• subarctic

• tundra

• temporal

• tropical

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

• permafrost

• boreal forest

• deciduous forest

• grassland

What Russian lake holds 1/5 of all unfrozen freshwater found of Earth?

• Baikal

• Barents

• Laptev

• Okhotsk

In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union called perestroika.

• True

• False

About 80 percent of all Russians live east of the Ural Mountains.

• True

• False

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

• command economy

What group came to power as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917?

• Communists

• Socialists

• Romanovs

• Czarists