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Standards & Objectives
• Analyze & assess the impact of the four major agricultural revolutions on the world’s human and physical environments. GHW.6.5– Amu Darya River – Aral Sea
• Analyze and assess the patterns and networks of economic interdependence or lack of interdependence and the movement of goods & services. GHW.8.2– Trans-Siberian Railroad
Landforms & Resources
• North– The Northern European Plain
• Chernozem- black earth/ fertile soil
– West Siberian Plain• Ural Mountains- divide Europe and
Asia• Eurasia
– Siberian Plateau– Far East
• Kamchatka Peninsula: over 100 volcanoes
Landforms & Resources
• South– The Caucasus
• Mr. Elbrus- Highest Peak in Russia• Transcaucasia- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
– Central Asia- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Landforms & Resources
• Rivers– Arctic Basin
• Drains more then 1,750,000 cubic feet water per second into Arctic Ocean
– Volga Basin• Volga River (Mother Volga) from Moscow to Caspian Sea
– Amur River• Border between Russia and China
• Lakes– Caspian Sea- saltwater lake– Aral Sea- saltwater lake– Lake Baikal- deepest lake in world/ 1 mile deep/ 20% of
worlds fresh drinking water
Lake Baikal
Landforms & Resources
• Siberia- frigid arctic & subarctic region of Russia– Hard to retrieve resources, but full– Damages???
• Trans-Siberian Railroad
Climate and Vegetation
• Continentality• Midlatitude
– Humid continental– Steppe- grasslands/ Chernozem
• Overgrazing and foreign plants introduced
– Russian Winter
• High-Latitude– Subarctic
• Forest- Taiga- largest forest on earth
– Tundra- treeless plain
What mountain range separates Russia as the European and Asian Continent?
1. Ural Mts
2. Caucasus Mts
3. Verkhoyanski Mts
Ural M
ts
Caucasu
s Mts
Verkhoyanski M
ts
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What is the name given to fertile, black soil?
1. Chernobyl
2. Chernozem
3. Charabelum
Chernobyl
Chernoze
m
Charabelum
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Which lake is over one mile deep?
1. Lake Victoria
2. Caspian Sea
3. Lake Baikal
Lake
Victoria
Caspian Sea
Lake
Baikal
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What Sea is shrinking rapidly?
1. Caspian Sea
2. Black Sea
3. Arial Sea
Caspian Sea
Black Se
a
Arial S
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What did the Trans-Siberian Railroad connect?
1. North & South Russia
2. East & West Russia
3. Russia & USA
North &
South
Russia
East & W
est Russi
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Russia &
USA
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