A) Canada B) Russia C) Brazil D) China
A) humidity B) heat C) cold D) dryness
A) Siberian tiger B) Kangaroo C) Polar bear D) Giraffe
A) Lake Superior B) Lake Victoria C) Lake Baikal D) Dead Sea
A) Hindi B) Russian C) Mandarin D) Arabic
A) Krasnoyarsk B) Novosibirsk C) Omsk D) Irkutsk
A) Asia B) Africa C) North America D) Europe
A) Rainy B) Mild C) Hot and humid D) Extremely cold
A) Devil's Island B) Robben Island C) Gulag D) Alcatraz
A) Islam B) Russian Orthodoxy C) Buddhism D) Hinduism
A) Yenisei River B) Ural River C) Ob River D) Volga River
A) 1582 B) 1800 C) 1600 D) 1700
A) Mongolia in 1750 B) Chukotka in 1778 C) Kazakhstan in 1825 D) China in 1800
A) 10 million square kilometres B) Over 13.1 million square kilometres C) 5 million square kilometres D) 20 million square kilometres
A) One-half B) About three-quarters C) One-quarter D) Two-thirds
A) Dry and arid conditions B) Long, harsh winters with a January average of −25 °C C) Hot and humid summers D) Mild and temperate year-round
A) 30% B) 10% C) 50% D) Over 85%
A) Yakuts B) Nenets C) Inuit D) Evenks
A) Far Eastern Federal District B) Central Federal District C) The central one D) Ural Federal District
A) Yugra B) Sibe C) Severia D) Sibirskoe Khanstvo
A) 'Northern lands' B) 'Wild land' C) 'Sleeping land' (Sib-ir) D) 'Dense forest'
A) Derived from a Mongolic word sibir B) From the Proto-Slavic word for 'north' C) From the Sibe people D) From the Buryat language
A) 'Dense forest' B) 'Wild land' C) 'Northern lands' D) 'Sleeping land'
A) Sibe people B) Buryat tribes C) Ural tribes D) Nenets people
A) Nenets B) Buryat C) Sihirtia or Sirtya (also Sypyr) D) Yugra
A) Tokhtamysh B) Anatole Baikaloff C) Jan Chyliczkowski D) György Kara
A) 'North' B) 'Forest' C) 'Water' D) 'Land'
A) 'Wild land' B) 'Northern lands' C) 'Sleeping land' D) 'Dense forest'
A) A mammoth B) A saber-toothed tiger C) An Ice Age horse D) A woolly rhinoceros
A) The Sahara Desert B) The Andes Mountains C) Wrangel Island and the Taymyr Peninsula D) The Alps
A) Homo erectus and Homo habilis B) H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, and the Denisovans C) Australopithecus afarensis D) Neandertals only
A) Their existence was disproven B) They were proven to be modern humans C) DNA evidence identified them as a separate species D) They were found to be identical to Neanderthals
A) Magdalenian culture B) Gravettian culture C) Clovis culture D) Afontova Gora
A) Native Polynesians B) Indigenous Australians C) Ancient East Asians D) Sub-Saharan Africans
A) The domestication of the horse B) Both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans C) The spread of agriculture D) The first modern humans in Europe
A) The Roman Empire B) The Mongol Empire C) The Byzantine Empire D) The Ottoman Empire
A) Larix sibirica, Larix gmelinii, Picea obovata, Pinus pumila B) Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Populus tremuloides C) Eucalyptus globulus, Acacia pycnantha, Banksia integrifolia D) Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus alba, Acer saccharum
A) Moscow B) Vladivostok C) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky D) Novosibirsk
A) 400,000 B) 300,000 C) 516,841 D) 700,000
A) Gold B) Silk C) Furs D) Spices
A) Yakutsk B) Kamchatka C) Olkhon D) Chukotka
A) Short growing season B) Poor soil quality C) Extreme cold temperatures D) Lack of water resources
A) An earthquake B) A volcanic eruption C) A flood D) The Tunguska event
A) 100,000 B) 230,000 C) 500,000 D) 1,000,000
A) Analyzing soil erosion in Siberia B) Restoring grasslands by studying large herbivores' effects on permafrost C) Developing new agricultural techniques D) Studying bird migration patterns
A) Yaraktin Oil Field B) Markovo Oil Field C) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field D) Lena-Tunguska Gas Field
A) Manganese B) Gold C) Diamonds D) Copper
A) Nitrous oxide B) Carbon monoxide C) Methane D) Ozone
A) Almost 9% B) More than 15% C) Less than 3% D) About 5%
A) Tomsk B) Omsk C) Krasnoyarsk D) Yekaterinburg
A) Hazel grouse B) Black grouse C) Japanese quail D) Western capercaillie
A) Less than 100,000 persons B) Approximately 500,000 persons C) Doubtful that it exceeded 300,000 persons D) Over a million persons
A) Kamchatka Peninsula B) Lake Baikal C) Verkhoyansk Range D) The Ukok Plateau
A) Slavic-origin Russians B) Tatars C) Yakuts D) Buryats
A) Stable economic conditions B) Severe economic decline during Russia's transition to a market economy C) Immediate economic prosperity D) Rapid industrial growth
A) Irkutsk B) Krasnoyarsk C) Yakutsk D) Norilsk
A) Primorye B) West Siberia C) Sakha D) Southern Siberia
A) Mid-17th century B) Early 19th century C) Early 16th century D) Late 18th century
A) Kiev B) St. Petersburg C) Moscow D) Novgorod
A) Galliformes B) Artiodactyla C) Ursidae D) Carnivora
A) Verkhoyansk fold belt B) Markova-Angara Arch (anticline) C) Taymr fold belt D) Baykalian fold belt
A) Irkutsk Oblast B) Khanty-Mansiysk region C) Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug D) Tomsk Oblast
A) Tundra B) Steppe C) Taiga D) Desert
A) The Trans-Siberian Railway B) The Panama Canal C) The Suez Canal D) The Erie Canal
A) East Siberia B) West Siberia C) Southern Siberia D) Kamchatka
A) Mustelidae B) Canidae C) Ursidae D) Felidae
A) Polar bear B) Arctic hare C) Siberian tiger D) Grey wolf
A) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field B) Markovo Oil Field C) Yaraktin Oil Field D) Lena-Tunguska Oil Field
A) 2005 B) 1999 C) 2008 D) 2010
A) Industrial development B) Agricultural production C) Tourism D) Fishing industry
A) 300,000 B) 500,000 C) 200,000 D) 478,085
A) Evenks B) Buryats C) Kets D) Yakuts
A) World Bandy Championship B) Winter Universiade C) Rugby World Cup D) Summer Olympics
A) Cenozoic alluvial deposits B) Permian sedimentary rocks C) Carboniferous limestone D) Jurassic volcanic rocks
A) Xianbei state B) Mongol Empire C) First Turkic Khaganate D) Khanate of Sibir
A) Krasnoyarsk B) Sevvostlag C) Vorkuta D) Magadan
A) Primorye B) West Siberia C) Sakha D) Kamchatka
A) Fines B) Sending internal exiles C) Public shaming D) Imprisonment
A) Speed skating B) Basketball C) Rugby D) Bandy
A) Proterozoic Parfenovo Horizon B) Vendian Yaraktin Horizon C) Middle Devonian Baykalian Horizon D) Early Cambrian Osa Horizon bar-sandstone
A) 1032 B) 1204 C) 1492 D) 1453
A) St. Petersburg B) Novgorod C) Moscow D) Tobolsk
A) Krasnoyarsk B) Khabarovsk C) Novosibirsk D) Irkutsk
A) Buddha B) Num-Torum C) Kini'je D) Ak Ana
A) Krasnoyarsk B) Novosibirsk C) Irkutsk D) Kemerovo
A) Irkutsk B) Khabarovsk C) Novosibirsk D) Kemerovo
A) Novosibirsk B) Tobolsk C) Tomsk D) Irkutsk
A) Yenisey Krasnoyarsk B) STM Enisei C) Sibselmash D) Krasny Yar
A) Pelmeni B) Borsch C) Stroganina D) Solyanka
A) Novosibirsk Refinery B) Tyumen Refinery C) Krasnoyarsk Refinery D) Omsk Refinery |