WorksheetsGeography of Russia Pt 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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.
Rostov, Volgograd, Don, Volga, 1952, 63
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Neva, Ladoga, 1960, 45
Kazan, Samara, Kama, Ural, 1948, 50
Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Oka, Caspian, 1955, 70
Caucasus Mountains divide Europe from Asia. The highest peak is ______.
Elbrus
Kilimanjaro
Everest
K2
The small republic of ______ gave the Russian Federation a great challenge.
Chechnya
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Ural Mountains form a geographic border between Europe and Asia. ______ is the highest peak.
Mt. Narodnaya
Mt. Elbrus
Mt. Everest
Mt. Kilimanjaro
______ and ______ are two industrial cities that exist near the Ural Mountains.
Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk
Moscow, Saint Petersburg
Novosibirsk, Omsk
Kazan, Samara
What is the name of the archipelago which was used as a nuclear test site?
Novaya Zemlya
Hawaii
Galapagos Islands
Falkland Islands
The ______ Railway links the southwest and southeast Siberian regions.
Trans-Siberian
Orient Express
Blue Train
Eastern Express
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.
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Tomsk
Krasnoyarsk
Central Siberian Plateau: Stretches between ______ and ______ rivers.
Yenisei, Lena
Volga, Don
Ob, Irtysh
Amur, Ussuri
East Siberian Upland: Mountain wilderness between ______ and ______. The ______ republic deals with the harshest climate in the world.
Lena River, Pacific Ocean, Sakha
Volga River, Ural Mountains, Tatarstan
Amur River, Sea of Japan, Primorsky
Ob River, Altai Mountains, Altai
Yakusk Basin has grown because of mining, particularly for gold. The ______ gold fields have made Russia the largest producer of gold in the world.
Sakha
Kolyma
Lena
Amur
Lake Baykal is the ______ lake in the world.
deepest
largest
widest
longest
Alaska is separated from Russia by the ______.
Bering Strait
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific Ocean
Arctic Ocean
______ is Russia's main Pacific port.
Vladivostok
Murmansk
Sochi
Kaliningrad
Two peninsulas dominate the far northern coast: ______ and ______.
Chukchi, Kamchatka
Iberian, Scandinavian
Balkan, Arabian
Yucatan, Florida
