1) List three important cities that are located in the Northern European Plain.
Moscow, Kiev, and St. Petersburg

2) What percentage of the region's population lives in this plain?
75%

3) What border do the Caucasus Mountains form?
The Black and Caspian Seas border

4) What are the two largest lakes in Central Asia?
Caspian Sea and Black Sea

5) How long is the Volga River?
2300 miles

6) Why is Lake Baikal important?
It has 20% of the world's fresh water

7) What are some of the resources that have been developed in Russia and the Republics?
Coal, iron ore, other metals, oil, natural gas, and 1/5 of the world's lumber

8) Why might extracting and transporting the region's resources be difficult?
In the winter it can be so cold you have to swap eyes while they thaw or the ground will be in a thick permafrost. In the summer the ice melts, creating clouds of mosquitos and black flies that attack people. Travel is also difficult and slow in Siberia.