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

ea

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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

a

Russia &

USA

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