Natural features: Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Caspian
Sea, Black Sea, Lake Baikal, Aral Sea, Lena river, Ob river, Volga
river, Don river, Sakhalin,
Crimea, Ural Mountains, and Caucasus Mountains.
Major cities: Vladivostok, Tashkent, Tblisi (=Tiflis),
Irkutsk, Ufa, Samara, Nizhnii Novgorod, Baku, Kazan, Ekaterinburg,
Omsk, Moscow, Warsaw, Helsinki, Riga, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Vilnius,
and Odessa.
Geo Quiz #2: Provided with a blank map, you will be
asked to identify the location of the following (maps on pp. 458 and 504
should cover all of this information, and the following may be useful as
well: map 1,
map
2):
Those now-independent states that were once republics of the Soviet
Union (the USSR): Russian Federation, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia,
Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgzstan, Turkmenistan).
Several neighboring states: Finland, Poland, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan,
Mongolia, and China.
