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Russia Ch 14-16
Throck Russia 14-16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What 2 continents does Russia border? | Asia and Europe |
| What body of water lies west of the Caucasus Mts and is used for a warm water port? | Black Sea |
| What body of water lies east of the Caucasus Mts and is actually a large, salt water lake? | Caspian Sea |
| What major river in European Russia connects the capital city of Moscow with the Caspian Sea? | Volga |
| What peninsula, reaching -90 degrees, is home to over 100 volcanoes? | Kamchatka |
| Where do 75% of Russians live, but only 25% of water is located there? | North European Plain, in European Russia |
| What is the thick, rich black soil called that is great for growing crops? | chernozen |
| What is the strip of the rich black soil in European Russia called? | Black Earth Belt |
| What prevents year round shipping from northern ports? | ice and frozen water |
| Dardanelles, Bosporos Strait and Sea of Marmara connect the Black Sea to what major body of water? | Mediterranean Sea |
| What is the deepest lake in the world, that contains 20% of the Earth's freshwater? | Lake Baikal |
| What is permanently frozen subsoil, located in the tundra, where no deep root plants can grow? | permafrost |
| What is the tundra? | Vast treeless plain |
| What is the taiga? | largest coniferous forest in the world |
| How many timezones does Russia span? | 11 |
| What is the value of all goods and services produced in a year called? | GDP- gross domestic product |
| What does per capita mean? | per person |
| What is the term for people that are severly poor? | poverty |
| What is a direct relationship? | When one factor increases, so does another |
| What is an inverse relationship? | When one factor increases, another one decreases |
| What is the term that describes how comfortably people live? | standard of living |
| What type of relationship is described: Estonia has a higher GDP per capita of $21,000, and 4% of its economy is basedon agriculture? | inverse |
| What happens to time as you move WEST? | you gain an hour meaning it becomes an hour earlier. |
| What Russian process has damaged the environment? | industrialization |
| Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides have damaged Russia's __________. | farmland |
| by products of nuclear testing that remains toxic for thousands of years is called? | radioactive wastes |
| What was the site of a major nuclear accident in the 1980's in Ukraine? | Chernobyl |
| What made the Chernbyl accident worse? | the fact that the government was slow to warn people |
| 80% of Russians are ethnic Russian and belong to the larger __________group. | Slavic |
| Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks who overthrew the Czarist government in 1917? | V.I. Lenin |
| What economic policy did the Bolsheviks support | communism |
| Who replaced Lenin as the leader of the USSR and was repsonsible for the death of over 10 million people? | Joseph Stalin |
| What were Eastern European countries called during the Cold War that had close ties with USSR? | satellites |
| What year did the satellites of Eastern Europe begin to overthrow thier communist leaders? | 1989 |
| What was Mikhail Gorbechev's program of economic restructuring called, where he started the privatization process? | perestroika (1980's) |
| What was Gorbechev's program of political openness called? | glasnost (1980's) |
| When the Soviet Union still existed, what was the duty of the Gosplan? | to make all economic decisions |
| What happened to the USSR when Gorbechev started his reforms of perestroika and glasnost? | the USSR fell |
| With the fall of the Soviet Union, how many countries became independent republics? | 15, Russia being the largest |
| With the fall of the Soviet Union, what happened to thier economic system | they changed from a command economy to a market economy called capitalism |
| How did Russians get the hard-to-find consumer goods? | on the expensive Black Market |
| In a market economy, how are economic decisions made? | supply and demand |
| AFter Russia turned to a market economy, what happened to their GDP in the early 1990's? | it fell by 50%, worse than the US during the Depression. |
| How many ethnic groups are there in Russia today? | over 100 |
| Why did the Soviet Economy fall behind the rest of the world, causing Gorbechev to begin making reforms? | USSR focused on heavy industry only, outdated technology and no incentive for workers |
| What characteristics describe a more developed country? | high GDP, high literacy, low births, low deaths, aging population |
| Where is the Russian Core? | European Russia (the West) due to climate and fertile soil of the North European Plain |
| Who attacked Russia in WWII expecting a quick victory over the "inferior" Slavs but couldn't operate in the cold winter? | Germany |
| Although Russia has over 100 ethnic groups, 4/5ths are ethnic_______________ | Russian, who belong to the larged Slavic group |
| What types of transportation routes do Russian depend on to get much needed resources from remote Siberia back West? | railroads (such as the Trans-Siberian) and pipelines |
| What three energy sources is Russia a top producer of ? | Oil, coal and natural gas |
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