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What makes Russia distinctive? |
It has the largest land area of any country on Earth. |
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Most of Russia is dominated by which type of climate? |
continental midlatitude |
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What is NOT an environmental issue in the Russian Domain? |
desertification |
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What natural feature marks the divide between European Russia and Asian Russia? |
Ural Mountains |
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Why do the authors of your text use the word "domain" when talking about "the Russian Domain"? |
The term suggests persisting Russian influence within the region. |
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Which body of water in the Russian Domain is the world’s largest reserve of freshwater? |
Lake Baikal |
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What was the distinctive skill for which Cossacks were well-known? |
horsemanship |
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Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that thrives in the podzol soil region of the Russian Domain? |
sugarcane |
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What is the one element that helps us to understand geographies of climate, vegetation, and agriculture in the Russian Domain? |
the northern latitudinal position of the Russian Domain |
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In which region of the Russian Domain is permafrost a problem? |
Siberia |
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What are the primary characteristics of a high-latitude continental climate, as illustrated by the Russian Domain? |
seasonal temperature extremes and short growing season |
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Why is development in Siberia limited? |
Unstable ground resulting from permafrost makes it extremely difficult to place permanent structures on the land surface. |
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Which of the following is the primary source of pollution damaging Russia’s Lake Baikal? |
pollution from pulp and paper factories |
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In which region of the Russian Domain would you find reindeer, Siberian tigers, and leopards? |
the Russian Far East |
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Which part of the Russian Domain has historically provided the most productive agricultural areas of the region? |
Ukraine |
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What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the USSR? |
persistently declining population |
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What does the term "Russification" mean? |
a policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union |
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What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain? |
200 million |
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What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia? |
European Russia is better suited for agriculture. |
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, which of the following groups of people would be least likely to emigrate from the Russian Domain? |
older, less educated Russians. |
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Which of the following is a characteristic of the demography of Russia today? |
relatively high mortality rates among middle-aged males |
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The Trans-Siberian Railroad |
ends at the port city of Vladivostok. |
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The architecture of St. Petersburg, Russia, is similar to that of which other part of the world? |
Western Europe |
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, what has become of the policy of Russification within former Soviet republics? |
Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave these regions. |
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What type of work do most Arctic residents undertake? |
working in the energy and natural resource economy |
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What was the policy of the former Soviet Union (USSR) regarding religion within its borders? |
The USSR discouraged all religion and even persecuted religious practice. |
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What language group dominates in the Russian Domain? |
Slavic |
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Which of the following statements best reflects religion in the post-Soviet era? |
There has been a religious revival. |
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What was socialist realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain? |
an art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or struggling against capitalism |
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In what Russian region has Islamic fundamentalism increased its presence? |
Caucus region |
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What is the language of the Volga Tatars of the Russian Domain? |
Turkish |
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In the Russian Domain, what non-Christian religion has the greatest number of believers? |
Islam |
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What has become of democracy in Russia in the post-Soviet era? |
There was a general flowering of democracy followed by a reduction of civil liberties since 2002. |
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What was the Russian policy enacted during the 1980s that meant for "greater openness"? |
Glasnost |
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Who was the main architect of the Soviet Union? |
Lenin |
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Who were the Bolsheviks? |
a faction of Russian communism representing interests of industrial workers, who established the former Soviet Union |
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What is perestroika? |
restructuring of the planned centralized economy, an early move toward a freer market |
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What have many of Russia’s internal autonomous areas been requesting? |
greater autonomy |
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The doctrine of communism was based on the writings of |
Karl Marx. |
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What is NOT a reason for the ongoing crisis in Ukraine? |
Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Western powers. |
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Which of the following is TRUE of the Russian mafia? |
The Russian mafia has also gone global, implicated in huge money-laundering schemes involving Russian and foreign banks |
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What is the primary destination for Russian petroleum products |
Western Europe |
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Putin abruptly canceled the construction of the South Stream Gas Pipeline. He now wants to export the natural gas to |
East Asia. |
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Russia has worked to maintain economic ties to former Soviet republics by creating a counterbalance to the European Union called |
the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). |
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