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Geography of Russia Pt 3

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Shipping: Major ports Rostov and Volgograd. The Volga-Don Canal links the Don with the Volga. It was completed in 1952 and is 63 locks long.

a)

Rostov, Volgograd, Don, Volga, 1952, 63

b)

Moscow, St. Petersburg, Neva, Ladoga, 1960, 45

c)

Kazan, Samara, Kama, Ural, 1948, 50

d)

Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Oka, Caspian, 1955, 70

2.

Caucasus Mountains divide Europe from Asia. The highest peak is ______.

a)

Elbrus

b)

Kilimanjaro

c)

Everest

d)

K2

3.

The small republic of ______ gave the Russian Federation a great challenge.

a)

Chechnya

b)

Estonia

c)

Latvia

d)

Lithuania

4.

Ural Mountains form a geographic border between Europe and Asia. ______ is the highest peak.

a)

Mt. Narodnaya

b)

Mt. Elbrus

c)

Mt. Everest

d)

Mt. Kilimanjaro

5.

______ and ______ are two industrial cities that exist near the Ural Mountains.

a)

Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk

b)

Moscow, Saint Petersburg

c)

Novosibirsk, Omsk

d)

Kazan, Samara

6.

What is the name of the archipelago which was used as a nuclear test site?

a)

Novaya Zemlya

b)

Hawaii

c)

Galapagos Islands

d)

Falkland Islands

7.

The ______ Railway links the southwest and southeast Siberian regions.

a)

Trans-Siberian

b)

Orient Express

c)

Blue Train

d)

Eastern Express

8.

West Siberian Plain: The city of ______ with 1.5 million people, is the largest city in Siberia. Its gas, oil, lead, and zinc resources are prevalent.

a)

Novosibirsk

b)

Omsk

c)

Tomsk

d)

Krasnoyarsk

9.

Central Siberian Plateau: Stretches between ______ and ______ rivers.

a)

Yenisei, Lena

b)

Volga, Don

c)

Ob, Irtysh

d)

Amur, Ussuri

10.

East Siberian Upland: Mountain wilderness between ______ and ______. The ______ republic deals with the harshest climate in the world.

a)

Lena River, Pacific Ocean, Sakha

b)

Volga River, Ural Mountains, Tatarstan

c)

Amur River, Sea of Japan, Primorsky

d)

Ob River, Altai Mountains, Altai

11.

Yakusk Basin has grown because of mining, particularly for gold. The ______ gold fields have made Russia the largest producer of gold in the world.

a)

Sakha

b)

Kolyma

c)

Lena

d)

Amur

12.

Lake Baykal is the ______ lake in the world.

a)

deepest

b)

largest

c)

widest

d)

longest

13.

Alaska is separated from Russia by the ______.

a)

Bering Strait

b)

Gulf of Alaska

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Arctic Ocean

14.

______ is Russia's main Pacific port.

a)

Vladivostok

b)

Murmansk

c)

Sochi

d)

Kaliningrad

15.

Two peninsulas dominate the far northern coast: ______ and ______.

a)

Chukchi, Kamchatka

b)

Iberian, Scandinavian

c)

Balkan, Arabian

d)

Yucatan, Florida