Russia Chapter Review

Chapter 15

RunoffChernozemSiberia

TaigaContinentality

Russia and the Republics have many resources. In the broad plains, there is rich soil call (1)______. The great forest, called the (2)______, holds one-fifth of the world’s timber resources. The part of Russia that lies in Asia, (3)______, has important reserve coal and iron ore. The weather in this region is harsh. One reason is because of (4)______, that is, the effect of being so far from the moderating influences of the ocean. Governments and businesses must balance their desire for economic progress with their responsibility to protect the environment. In the past, for example problems have been caused by the use of pesticides and fertilizers that (5)______has carried into rivers and lakes.

  1. EurasiaC. RunoffE. Trans-Siberian Railroad
  2. TranscaucasiaD. Ural Mountains
  1. ______Southern region that consists of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
  2. ______They form the boundary between the Northern European and West Siberian plains.
  3. ______A transportation link between Moscow and Vladivostok.
  4. ______The name for the combined continents of Europe and Asia.
  5. ______Rainfall not absorbed by the soil that runs off into rivers.

Chapter 16

  1. The struggle between Britain and Russia over Central Asia was called the ______.

Red ArmyCold WarGreat Game

  1. A ______is a traditional dinner party held in the republic of Georgia.

SupraYurtNomad

  1. Many people starved to death when the Soviet government tried to reform agriculture by creating vast ______, where large teams of laborers worked together.

Baltic RepublicCollective farmscommand economies

  1. After Soviet officials organized the different peoples of the Russian Empire into a new nation, they called it ______.

Russian RevolutionBaltic RepublicUSSSR

  1. The Communist leaders of the Soviet Union created a ______in which they decided what could be made, what crops could be grown, and what things would cost.

Collective farmCommand economyGreat Game

______

  1. NomadsC. Silk RoadE. Russian Revolution
  2. St. PetersburgD. Cold War

1.______Russian city, the capital of Russia during the reign of Peter the Great.

2. ______Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.

3. ______A revolt that ended the Russian Empire and the rule of czars.

4. ______Caravan route that connected China and the Mediterranean Sea.

5. ______People who have no permanent home and move from place to place in search of food, water and grazing land.

Main Ideas

  1. How did Ivan the Great make further Russian expansion possible in the 1500s?
  1. What are two or more things that Joseph Stalin did that had a negative impact on the USSR?
  1. What are the three different governments that have ruled in Russia in the 20th century?
  1. What arguments have been triggered by the discovery of oil around and under the Caspian Sea?
  1. What did the Soviet government do when carving up Central Asia that has made the region poticially unstable?

Chapter 17

  1. PrivatizationC. CaucasusE. Nagorno-Karabakh
  2. Distance decayD. Chechnya

_____ 1. Also called Caucasia, a region that straddles the mountains that stretch between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

_____ 2.Disputed mountainous area, formerly of Azerbaijan, now controlled by Armenia.

_____ 3.The selling of previously government-owned businesses.

_____ 4. Among the republics that remained part of Russia, the one that has experienced the most violent upheaval.

_____5.