Unit 6 Russia Review

Which geographic factor most influenced Peter the Great’s expansion of Russian territory during the 18th centuries?

• access to the Mediterranean Sea

• access to a Pacific Ocean seaport

• access to lands with year-long growing seasons

• access to a port that would not freeze during winter

One cultural trait of Russia is its love of the ballet. Both the work of _______ who composed the music for The Nutcracker and the emergence of________ as an international ballet star in the late 1900s symbolize this.

Which words BEST complete the paragraph?

• Anton Chekhov…Peter Tchaikovsky

• Peter Tchaikovsky...Leo Tolstoy

• Peter Tchaikovsky…Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Mikhail Baryshnikov…Anton Chekhov

What are Russia’s major natural resources?

• petroleum, natural gas, coal, mineral resources, timber, and grain

• 90% of the land is used for farming

• premier producer of oxygen from the Amazon Rainforest

• fishing industry supplied through the numerous Siberian rivers

Which mountains form a natural dividing line between European Russian and Asian Russia?

• Caucasus Mountains

• Verkhoyansk Range

• Carpathian Mountains

• Ural Mountains

What climate region covers the majority Russia?

• tundra

• subarctic

• steppe

• humid continental

Why is the Volga River, known as “Mother Volga,” so important to the people of Russia?

• It is the longest river in western Russia and Europe

• It provides freshwater, irrigation and important hydroelectric power for the region.

• It allows Russia shipping access to the Mediterranean as a warm-water port.

• All of these are correct.

Although frozen almost half of each year, the Volga River provides this type of energy, generated from falling water, in addition to providing water for drinking and irrigation.

• nuclear

• hydroelectric

• solar

• natural gas

This southern part of the North European Plain has navigable waterways and is able to support the production of wheat, barley, rye and other produce.

• Siberia

• Black Earth Belt

• Caucasus Region

• Tartarstan

This climate region is considered a vast, treeless plain, and dominates Russia's arctic landscape.

• humid continental

• steppe

• tundra

• subarctic

Tatarstan was given a limited amount of _____, or self-rule, in Russia in 1994.

• sovereignty

• dependance

• freedom of speech

• censorship