Kahoot Russia
Term that means self rule is Sovereignty
Russia’s taiga is the world’s ________ is largest coniferous forest
Change from state-run to privately owned companies
Privatization
Russia depends primarily upon _____ for transportation
Railroads and waterways
Russia is so cold that cars
Must be made of a special steel that will not crack
The slavs have had only a small effect on Russia’s politics and culture
False
The caucasus mountains seperate european russia from asian russia
False-ural mountains do
The uneven distribution of population in Russia is due to
The physical environment
Farmers welcome the permafrost whenever it comes
False
Russian coasts lie along the
Pacific Ocean, Arctic ocean caspian sea black sea and baltic sea
Country once controlled by the soviet union
Satellite countries
Belief that there is no God or other supreme being
Atheism
Russia has enormous petroleum reserves
True
When Vladmir Putin became president of Russia the country needed
To improve the military, stronger banking, and money
What was Kievan Rus
A union of city states organized by scandinavian warriors
As belevers in communism Blosheviks…
Wanted a new society led by workers
What is the trans siberian railroad
The worlds longest continuous railroad line
Today Russia’s literacy rate is
Nearly 100 percent
Site of a terrible nuclear accident
Chernobyl
What is the second largest religion in Russia Today
Islam
Creator of the Kremlin in Moscow
Prince Ivan III
Struggle between the soviet union and the US for world influence
Cold war
Russia is about two times the size of the continental US
True
Program that requited everyone to speak russia
Russification
System under which the government makes all key economic decisions
Command economy
Which statement about the tundra climate region is accurate
Its average annual temperature is below freezing
Most of Russias longest rivers are located in Siberia
True
The soviet government made ____ a priority
Heavy industry
Peter the Great stubbornly refused to modernize Russia
False
Ethnic ____ makes up 80 percent of Russias Population
Russia
Form of Government in the soviet Union
Communism
Within Russia ______ are the primary means of transporting crude oils and natural gas
Pipelines
Russias air, water and soil were damaged by
Soviet disregard for the effects of industrialization
Russia Forest are shrinkng at a rate of loss faster than the amazon basin
True
Russia Has…..
Huge reserves of mineral resources
Large factory farm
Sovhkoz
About three quarters of russian people live
On the north european plain
Intellectual elite in the Soviet Union
Intelligentsia
The volga Valley is a center of
Major manufacturing and industry
The ideas of _______ are teh basis for communism
Karl Marx
The subarctic climate region dominates Russia
True
The first crowned czar was
Ivan the Terrible in 1533
During the Soviet era many ethnic russians moved to non russian republics of the soviet union
True
Catherine the Great gained a long sought
Warm water port on the black sea
Russian farmland has been damaged by
Fertilizers and pesticides
Philosophy calling for greater economic equality in society
Socialism
The volga river connects moscow with which body of water
Caspian sea
Organized persecution and massacres of Jewish people under the czar
Pogrom
Site at which residents protested pollution from paper pulp factory
Lake baikal
Russia has few ocean ports that are
Free from ice year-round