1) List three important cities that are located in the Northern European Plain.
-St Peters
-Moscow
-Kiev

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

3) What border do the Caucasus Mountains form?
Central ASia

4) What are the two largest lakes in Central Asia?
Yenisey and the Lena

5) How long is the Volga River?
2,294 miles

6) Why is Lake Baikal important?
its the deepest lake in the world, holds 20% of the worlds fresh water, and it is remarkably clean

7) What are some of the resources that have been developed in Russia and the Republics?
petroleum deposits around the caspien sea are some of the worlds largest

8) Why might extracting and transporting the region's resources be difficult?
harsh climate, rugged terrain, and long distance