First make three columns on the back of the blank map
MAP: COMMUNISM TO CAPITALISM (ECONOMIC EVOLUTION SIDE)
What year was this map published?
What are the titles and years of the 3 inset maps?
In one of the columns on the back of the blank map:
List the 15 New Countries and cite an advantage or resource for each
Which of these Countries has the highest GNP?
Which of these Countries has the lowest GNP?
Bottom Time Line
Why was the former Tzarist Capital relocated in 1918?
What are the 1929-38 ‘kulaks’?
Despite of a growing economy, what did Khrushchev do in 1963?
What are ‘apparatchiks’ in 1977-78?
In 1989, what two events happened just outside of the Soviet Union?
Locate on the Blank Map:
Caucasus MountainsVladivostokArea of ‘Forced Collectivization
Ural MountainsNovosibirskMajor Grain Exporting area
Ob RiverMoscowMineral locations
Dnieper RiverIrkutskMajor area of irrigated croplands
Volga RiverSt Petersburg
Trans-Siberian RR
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PEOPLES OF THE SOVIET UNION (1976)
In one of the columns on the back of the blank map:
How many examples of the Heritages are portrayed.
Name one fact for 6 of the Heritages.
General write-up:
How many time zones?
How were the 24 Heritage Groups chosen?
‘To speak of the Soviet Union Peoples is to speak’…of what 3 topics?
The mosaic of peoples began in which centuries?
Which Countries gained independence after WWI, but lost it to the Soviets by WWII?
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SOVIET UNION 1990 MAP (INFORMATION SIDE)
Which Countries are dominated by the following Ethnolinguistic Groups?
TajikKazakh
UralicUzbek
CaucasianTurkmen
Slavic
Inset Maps 1-8:
In one of the columns on the back of the blank map:
Name the titles and years of each map.
What might be the name and year of a possible 9th map to the series?....Explain.
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ANY OF THE POLITICAL RUSSIAN MAPS ON THE BACK
What is the Blue zig-zag line in the Arctic Ocean?
What do the Green (or Red) zig-zag lines in the northern limits of the land area represent?
Estimate how far apart is Russia from Alaska?
What do the following terms mean?
Locate an example of these and mark them on the blank map.
KhrebetPik
ZalivGuba
Ostrov (O,)Laguna
PoluostrovMys
ZemlynBereg
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CASPIAN REGION MAP: PROMISE AND PERIL
TOP-
Why has the Caspian Sea sometimes been a Sea and sometimes a Lake?
The Caspian Sea is at least how old?
Satellite Photo –
How much of European Russia does the Volga River drain?
What is falling into the Black Sea?
What is the Apseron Peninsula collecting?
What resulted from Moscow forcing nomads to settle?
What is the problem with dust storms over the Aral Sea?
What is happing in Garabogas Bay?
What is different between the water in the North and South of the Caspian Sea?
Bottom:
Russia and Iran Consider the Caspian to a Sea. Why does this matter?
Why does the Caspian Basin have Oil and Natural Gas?