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World Outline Maps
Activity 19
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus: Physical-Political
PART I Use maps in your textbook or a library to locate the items listed
below. Then label them on the outline map.
Selected
Countries
Selected Cities
Major Bodies of Water
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Georgia
Russia
Ukraine
Baku
Khabarovsk
Kiev
Magnitogorsk
Minsk
Moscow
Novosibirsk
Nizhniy Novgorod
Odesa
St. Petersburg
Tbilisi
Verkhoyansk
Vladivostok
Volgograd
Yekaterinburg
Yerevan
Amur River
Anadyr River
Angara River
Arctic Ocean
Baltic Sea
Barents Sea
Bering Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Don River
Donets River
Dnieper River
Indigirka River
Kolyma River
Lake Ladoga
Lena River
Lower Tunguska
River
Ob River
Pacific Ocean
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Shilka River
Ussuri River
Volga River
Yenisey River
Zhayyq (Ural)
River
Major Landforms
Caucacus Mountains
Central Siberian Plateau
Cherskiy Range
Crimean Peninsula
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kolyma Mountains
New Siberian Islands
Northern European Plain
North Land
Novaya Zemlya Plain
Pripet Marshes
Sakhalin Island
Sayan Mountains
Siberia
Stanovoy Mountains
Taymyr Peninsula
Ural Mountains
West Siberian Plain
Yablonovyy Range
PART II After labeling your map, use it to answer the following questions:
1. A portion of what country borders the Baltic Sea? What is unusual about this land?
2. List two major peninsulas along the extreme eastern and western borders of this region.
3. What major type of landform in northern Ukraine is not found in any other part
of this region. What is the name of this Ukrainian landform?
4. What city is near the southernmost point of Russia?
5. Critical Thinking: Human Systems Several cities in this region have been renamed
over the years. For example, in the 1920s St. Petersburg and Volgograd were
renamed Leningrad and Stalingrad, respectively. Then in the 1990s their historic
names were restored. What events might have accounted for this switching back
and forth of names?
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Answer Key
MAP ACTIVITY 11
Croatia, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia and
Montenegro
4. Crete
5. Vatican City, the papal state; strong influence of the Catholic Church in the region
1. French Guiana (France) and the Falkland
Islands (the United Kingdom)
2. about 4,000 miles
3. Atlantic Ocean
4. three; Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil (Some
MAP ACTIVITY 17
might include the tip of Peru.)
5. Argentina—the islands are nearby; United
Kingdom—it gives them control over a
location in South America
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
MAP ACTIVITY 12
1. eight; Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden
2. Greece
3. about 2,000 miles
4. nine; Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary,
MAP ACTIVITY 18
1. Siberia
2. Arctic Ocean
3. Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea,
Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Macedonia,
Moldova, Slovakia, Switzerland
5. its location in the Mediterranean Sea near
both Africa and Italy
Bering Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Pacific
Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk
4. Volga River and Zhayyq (Ural) River
5. Cherskiy Range, Kolyma Mountains,
Stanovoy Mountains, Yablonovyy Range;
protection from eastern invaders, but
isolation of population of eastern Russia
MAP ACTIVITY 13
1. Kjolen Mountains
2. Carpathian Mountains
3. Northern European Plain, Great
Hungarian Plain
4. Tagus River and Ebro River
5. probably helped protect from northern
MAP ACTIVITY 19
1. Russia; separated from the rest of the
invaders, but limited ability of Italians to
travel to interior Europe
2.
3.
4.
5.
MAP ACTIVITY 14
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Northern Ireland
Greenland
Alps and Jura Mountains
Loire River
four; they all have very cold climates.
country
Kamchatka Peninsula, Crimean Peninsula
marsh; Pripet Marshes
Vladivostok
the rise and fall of communism
MAP ACTIVITY 20
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
MAP ACTIVITY 15
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Russia
Kazakhstan
Minsk
about 2,700 miles
five; the countries probably made up
primarily of people from the ethnic group
represented in the country’s name, with
heavy influences from Turkey
Liechtenstein
Neisse River and Oder River
Carpathian Mountains
Lake Geneva
Answers will vary.
Altay Shan and Tian Shan
Kara-Kum and Kyzyl Kum
Tajikistan
about 4,000 miles
seven; Amu Dar’ya, Irtysh River, Ili River,
Murgab River, Syr Dar’ya, Tobol River,
Zhayyq (Ural) River; dry and arid
MAP ACTIVITY 21
MAP ACTIVITY 16
1.
2.
3.
4.
1. Portugal and Spain
2. Transylvanian Alps
3. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Saudi Arabia; Bahrain
Red Sea and Persian Gulf
Afghanistan
Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait City, Manama
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