World Geography CH. 14-16 Test Review

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 type of climate is found along Russia's northern border

• tundra

• subarctic

• temporal

• tropical

What type of biome is found in Russia's subarctic

• permafrost

• boreal forest

• deciduous forest

• grassland

The ____ _________ form a natural barrier between European Russia and Siberian Russia

The _____ River extends 2,293 miles, making it the longest river in Europe

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of modern communism

• True

• False

Belarusians are an ethnic group that share a language and formed an independent country after the breakup of the Soviet Union

• True

• False

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

• protectorates

• territories

• satellites

• colonies

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