Geography 14
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- The Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of water is
- a saltwater body
- making goods such as clothing, shoes, furniture, and household products
- light industry
- The economic region of the Volga River and the Ural Mountains is important for its
- industries
- Fourty percent of Russia's land is
- permafrost
- Most of Russia has short, warm summers and
- long, cold winters
- The political, economic, and cultural center of Russia is
- Moscow
- mountain range in southwest Russia
- Causasus
- What city is located ear the Gulf of Finland and is an important shipbuilding center?
- St. Petersburg
- longest river in Europe
- Volga
- Which of the following is/are located on the North European Plain
- Moscow and St. Petersburg
- part of the Ring of Fire
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- highest mountain on the continent of Europe
- Mt. Elbrus
- Huge, subartic evergreen forests are known as the
- taiga
- an important port, once the capital city
- St. Petersburg
- location of largest supply of minerals in Russia
- Siberia
- The Volga River is Russias
- longest river
- making goods such as machinery, mining equipment, and steel
- heavy industry
- nearly treeless grassy plain
- steppe
- mineral used to make aluminum
- bauxite
- The body of water bordering Russia to the north is the
- Arctic Ocean
- generated by fast-moving water
- hydroelectric power
- What body of water holds almost 20 percent of the world's supply of unfrozen freshwater
- Lake Baikal
- Russia's cultural and political center is
- Moscow
- The Caspian Sea is the world's largest
- inland body of water
- longest river in Europe
- Volga River
- Oil and natural gas are two of Russia's most important
- natural resources
- permanently frozen lower layers of soil
- permafrost
- The Volga River provides water to generate electricity and for
- irrigation
- landform marking the boundary between Europe and Asia
- Ural mountains
- Russias tallest mountain is part of
- the Caucasus Mountains
- Two mountain ranges rise in western Russia, the Urals and the
- Caucasus
- huge forests of evergreen trees
- taiga
- seaport on Russia's Pacific coast
- Vladivostok
- household and electronic products
- consumer goods
- climate in Siberia
- high latitude
- Russia's largest city
- Moscow
- Russia's two most important northwestern ports are St. Petersburg and
- Kaliningrad
- landform on which 75% of Russi's people live
- North European Plain
- The huge lowland-the world's largest area of flat land-located in Siberia is called the
- West Siberian Plain
- What region in Russia has the largest supply of minerals?
- Siberia