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Duplicate Chapter 13 Russia Review
Where is Lake Baikal?
Lake Baikal is the world's
Duplicate Chapter 13 Russia Review
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Lake Baikal is the world's
deepest saltwater lake
oldest saltwater lake
largest body of water
deepest freshwater lake
2
Where is Lake Baikal?
Russia
Azerbaijan
the Urals
Uzbekistan
3
People with no permanent home and move from place to place are called
Kirghiz
rural
nomads
urban
4
What is the name of the alphabet developed by St. Cyril
Cyrillic
Tian Shan
Mongols
Kirghiz
5
The Russian composer who wrote The Nutcracker Suite was
Peter Tchaikovsky
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Alexander Pushkin
Igor Stravinsky
6
The majority culture in Russia is the
Slavs
nomads
Mongols
taiga
7
Most cities and towns in Siberia are located along
the Yenisey River
the Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Siberian Coast
the Lena River
8
Who were the horse-riding warriors that were ancestors to the Kazakhs
Mongols
Kirghiz
Garagum
Dushanbe
9
Tolstoy's novel War and Peace celebrated
the Russian victory over Napoleon Bonaparte
Russian independence
the rise of the RUssian Empire
the Slav victory over theMongols
10
The Russian city called "Venice of the North" is
Vladivostok
St. Petersburg
Murmansk
Moscow
11
The only Russian port that remains free of ice year-round is
Murmansk
Kaliningrad
Uzbekistan
St. Petersburg
12
Russia's largest city and economic center
Moscow
Dushanbe
Silk Road
Tian Shan
13
The dividing line between Europe and Asia is formed by the
Ural Mountains
Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mountains
Volga River
14
What is the name of the longest river in Europe
Dushanbe
Cyrillic
Volga
Slavs
15
The two mountain ranges that rise in western Russia are the Ural and the
Ismail Samani
Eurasians
Caucasus
Tian Shun
16
What is the large treeless area of northern Siberia called
urban
tiaga
tundra
nomads
17
The region that holds the largest supply of minerals in Russia is
Siberia
The Ural Mountains
the Moscow region
The Volga River Valley
18
What word means relating to the countryside
suburbs
rural
city
urban
19
Who was the first president of Russia?
Joseph Stalin
Nicholas II
Ivan III
Boris Yeltsin
20
What word means relating to the city
suburbs
country
rural
urban
21
Service industries include
computer manufacturing
tourism and entertainment
ranching and farming
coal and oil production
22
What is the name of the busy trade route between China and Europe
Silk Road
Moscow
tundra
Tian Shan
23
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is called the
babushka
Cyrillic
patriarch
skazki
24
Which event changed who was fighting in WWI?
The czars increased their power
The Bolsheviks seized control of the Russian government
Khrushchev agreed to stop shipping missels
Stalin became president
25
Where was one of the world's greatest environmental disasters in 1986
Petersburg
Novosilbrisk
Chernobyl in Ukraine
Vladivostok
26
The full name of the Soviet Union was
United Soviet Communist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
Union of Soviet Communist Republics
United Soviet Socialist Republics
27
Russia has the world's largest forest called the
oasis
taiga
tundra
Urals
28
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII was
Joseph Stalin
Nicholas II
Ivan the Terrible
Boris Yeltsin
29
The early capital of Russia designed to be like a European city was
St. Petersburg
Kaliningrad
Moscow
Venice
30
What word means emperor in Russia
caeser
kaiser
czar
Ivan
31
On May Day, Russians honor
Russian women
God
Peter the Great
Russian workers
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Russian stories passed down orally from generation to generation are called
babushka
skazki
shchi
borscht
