World Geography Russia

Ethnic Russians are part of a larger group called

• Slavs

• Islam

• French

• Scandinavian

Russia depends primarily

upon ____ for

transportation

• Railroads

• Waterways

• Highways

• Air travel

The Turkic peoples form the

____ family of ethnic groups

in Russia

• Second largest

• First largest

• Third largest

• Smallest

What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?

• the world's longest railroad line

• the world's shortest railroad line

The first crowned czar was...

• Ivan the Terrible

• Alexander II

• Fyodor

• Dmitri the False

Who expanded upon Gorbachev's plan toward a market economy.

• Boris Yeltsin

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Karl Maxx

Where do about 75% of Russians live between?

• Ural Mountains

• Belarus

• Ukraine

• Estonia

In an attempt to manage its forests more effectively, Russia has...

• planted new trees

• used land more wisely

• increased investments in forests

• decreased carbon emissions

Today Russia's literacy rate is nearly____.

• 100%

• 90%

• 80%

• 85%

Russia's major trading partners include

• Japan

• The United States

• The European Union

• Korea