Russia and the Republics

The mountain range that separates the Northern European and West Siberian plains is the

• Transcaucasia Mountains

• Caucasus Mountains

• Siberian Mountains

• Ural Mountains

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are known as

• the Western Republics

• the Soviet Union

• the Baltic Republics

• the Balkans

The oldest and deepest lake in the world is

• Czar Lake

• Lake Caspian

• Aral Sea

• Lake Baikal

The Russian leader who put an end to Mongol rule was

• Ivan the Great

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Joseph Stalin

A region known for frigid temperatures as well its many natural resources is

• Siberia

• Georgia

• Russia

• Uzbekistan

In 1917, the rule of the czars was ended by

• the Cold War

• WWI

• the Mongol invasion

• the Russian Revolution

____________ is the term used to describe a region's distance away from the moderating influence of the sea.

• continentality

• taiga

• tundra

• precipitation

The leader who granted more economic and political freedom to the people of the former USSR was

• Ivan the Great

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• V. I. Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

The __________ was damaged by efforts to use its waters for irrigation of nearby farms.

• Caspian Sea

• Aral Sea

• Black Sea

• White Sea

An economy in which the central government makes all the decisions about a country's economic policies is known as a

• command economy

• communistic economy

• labor economy

• collective economy