question

1) What makes Russia distinctive? - PG 298 - R

answer

Largest land area

question

2) Which geographic area of the Russian Domain dominates the region?

answer

Slavic Russia?

question

3) Why do the authors of your text use the word "domain" when talking about "the Russian Domain"?-- PG 294 - R

answer

Suggests the persistent Russian influence within the 5 other nations included in the region.

question

4) Which body of water in the Russian Domain is the world's largest reserve of freshwater? -- PG 296 - R

answer

Serbia's Lake Baikal

question

5) Where has the Russian Domain dumped its nuclear wastes? - PG 296 - R

answer

Island of Novaya Zemlya

question

6) Why is the city of Chernobyl well-known? - PG 296 - R

answer

Nuclear meltdown in 1986

question

7) What was the distinctive skill for which Cossacks were well-known? - PG 295 - figure

answer

Horsemanship

question

8) What is one of the source of the nuclear threat in the Russian Domain? - PG 296 - R

answer

Soviet Union had aggressive nuclear weapons and energy programs

question

9) Which of the following was not a former Soviet Republic? (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan)

answer

Afghanistan

question

10) What body of water lies to the north of the Russian Domain? - PG 300 - figure

answer

Barents Sea

question

11) The Caucasus Mountains are located between which two bodies of water? - PG 301 -figure

answer

Caspian Sea and Black Sea

question

12) In which region of the Russian Domain is permafrost a problem? - PG 301 - L

answer

Siberia

question

13) Why is development in Siberia limited? - PG 301 - L

answer

It has unstable ground from permafrost

question

14) In which region of the Russian Domain would you find reindeer, Siberian tigers, and leopards?--PG 301 -R

answer

Russian Far East

question

15) Which part of the Russian Domain has historically provided the most productive agricultural areas of the region? - PG 301 - R

answer

Ukraine

question

16) What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain? - PG 303 - L

answer

200 million

question

17) What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?

answer

European Russia is better suited for agriculture?

question

18) The highest population densities in the Russian Domain are found in which part of the region?-- PG 303 - L

answer

European Russia Western-most

question

19) What Russian city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet era?

answer

St. Petersburg

question

20) Which Russian port provides Russia with the most rapid access to the Pacific Ocean? - PG 324 - figure

answer

Vladivostok

question

21) The architecture of St. Petersburg, Russia, is similar to that of which other part of the world?-- PG 303 - R

answer

Western Europe

question

22) What are mikrorayons? - PG 307 - R

answer

Large Soviet-era housing projects of the 1970's-80s

question

23) Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, what has become of the policy of Russification within former Soviet republics? - PG 306 - R

answer

The policy of settling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union has been reversed - with countries posting strict citizenship requirements

question

24) In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union's Gulag Achipelago located?

answer

Siberia

question

25) What was the purpose of Russification (the Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the former USSR)? - PG 306 - L

answer

In order to increase Russian dominance in the outlying areas of the country

question

26) In which Union Republic was Russification most intense? - PG 306 - L

answer

Kazakhstan and Latvia (30%)

question

27) Most average Russians living in the city live in what kind of housing? - PG 307 and 308 - figure

answer

Mikrorayons?

question

28) What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the USSR? - PG 307 - R

answer

Declining populations, low birth rates, high mortality

question

29) What language group dominates in the Russian Domain? - PG 311 - figure

answer

Slavic Russian

question

30) The Russian Empire had its origins as a small principality in the vicinity of which Russian city?

answer

Moscow?

question

31) Who were the Cossacks of the Russian Domain? - PG 309- R

answer

Warriors Slavic speaking Christians who had migrated ot the region earlier seeking freedom from the ungoverned steppes

question

32) Who were the original founders of Russia? - PG 309 - L

answer

Slavic people: Southward moving warriors from Sweden known as Varangians or Rus

question

33) In what part of Russia are Finno-Ugric speaking peoples primarily located? -PG 309 - R

answer

Non-Russian north

question

34) What is the language of the Volga Tatars of the Russian Domain? - PG 310 - L

answer

Turkish speaking

question

35) Approximately what percentage of Russian citizens claim a Russian linguistic identity? - PG 309 - R

answer

80%

question

36) Where were most of Russia's major territorial gains in the nineteenth century? - PG 309 - R

answer

Central Asia

question

37) What was the policy of the former Soviet Union (USSR) regarding religion within its borders?-- PG 310 - R

answer

Discouraged and persecuted

question

38) In the Russian Domain, what non-Christian religion has the greatest number of believers?--PG 311 - L

answer

Islam

question

39) What was socialist realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain? - PG 311 - R

answer

Art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challenging nature or struggling against capitalism.

question

40) Which two countries were the primary rivals in the Cold War?

answer

United States and the Soviet Union

question

41) Who was the main architect of the Soviet Union? - PG 312 - R

answer

Lenin

question

42) Glasnost (define and know where it came from) - PG 313 - R

answer

"Greater openness" during the 1980 under Mikhail Gorbachev Several republics demanded independence

question

43) Who were the Bolsheviks? - PG 312 - R

answer

Faction of Russian communists representing the industrial workers

question

44) What is perestroika? - PG 313 - R

answer

Restructuring of the planned centralized economy

question

45) What have many of Russia's internal autonomous areas been requesting?

answer

Greater autonomy?

question

46) What has become of democracy in Russia in the post-Soviet era? - PG 317 - R

answer

Once a flowering democracy - has turned more and more to a centrally controlled and censoring government

question

47) One of Putin's early political moves was to crack down on dissidents in the Russian republic of____________ - PG 317 - L

answer

Chechnya

question

48) What happened to the economy in the Russian Domain after the demise of the former Soviet Union (USSR)? - PG 318 - R

answer

Economy declined and devastated the region in the 1990s

question

49) By 2003, approximately what portion of Russian farmland had been privatized? - PG 320 - R

answer

90%

question

50) What is the primary destination for Russian petroleum products? - {G 323 - R

answer

Today, Western Europe

question

East movement of Russia to Siberia...

answer

Encouraged by leaders of USSR/Soviet Union

question

Russia has the largest population

answer

False

question

Characteristics of high latitude of Russian Domain?

answer

Seasonal temperature and short growing season

question

Verkhoyansk is Russian tundra.

answer

False

question

What is the source of pollution in Lake Baikal?

answer

Pulp and paper factories

question

Urbanization was...

answer

Planned during Soviet period

question

BAM railroad was completed...

answer

In 1984

question

China and the Soviet Union were antagonist during Cold War.

answer

False

question

Element that helps us understand geography of Russian Domain?

answer

High latitude

Globalization and Diversity Chapter 9 – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards