Russia Regional Atlas Discovery
Name: ________________________________________
Period: _______________________
Directions: Using the Russia Regional Atlas (pgs. 362-367), answer the
following questions as you get to know Russia a little bit.
1) What mountain range divides the North European Plain in west Russia from the
West Siberian Plain? ____________________________________________________________________
2) What is the longest river in Russia? ___________________________________________________
a. How long is the river? ___________________________________________________________
b. How does this river’s length compare to the longest river system in the
U.S., the Missouri-Mississippi? _________________________________________________
3) What four seas border Russia to the north?
a. __________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________
4) What is the tallest mountain in all of Russia? ________________________________________
a. How tall is it? ____________________________________________________________________
b. What mountain range is it located in? _________________________________________
5) What three seas border Russia to the east?
a. __________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________
6) Name the river:
a. I flow north out of the Sayan Mountains before emptying into the Kara
Sea. ____________________________________________________________________________
b. I flow south out of the Ural Mountains and Northern European Plain
before emptying into the Caspian Sea. _____________________________________
c. After leaving Lake Baikal, I wind around the Yablonovyy and
Verkhoyanski Mountain Ranges before emptying into the Laptev Sea.
__________________________________________________
d. I flow north through the West Siberian Plain and empty into a long inlet
that comes from the Kara Sea. ________________________________________________
7) What two seas border Russia to the southwest?
a. __________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________
8) How deep is the deepest point of Lake Baikal? ______________________________________
9) How does the life expectancy of Russia compare to the life expectancy of the
United States? ______________________________________________
10)How does the average income (Per Capita GDP) of Russia compare to that of the
United States? ______________________________________________
11) Look at the Population Density map. How would you describe the pattern of
population in Russia? (Use the space below to explain)
12) Look at the Economic Resources map. In what part of Russia does most of the
Commercial Farming take place? ___________________________________________________
13)What fossil fuel is abundant along the entire southern border of Russia?
________________________________________________
14) Very few people live in the central and eastern parts of Russia. Look at these
parts on the Economic Resources map. Why do so few people live in these parts,
according to the Economic Resources map? (Use the space below, and DON’T
TELL US IT’S COLD, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT!)
15) Describe where the majority of Russia’s oil is located, using the Economic
Resources map.