Land Formations
Area of grassland.
What is a prairie?
Average number of people per square mile in an area.
Area of Russian grassland.
What is steppes?
Fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas that develop from teh fossils of organic materials.
What is fossil fuel?
A river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a Tributary?
What type of power is generated by water driven turbines?
What is hydroelectric?
Area of forests that cover 4 million square miles of Russia.
What is a taiga?
A treeless plain with permanently frozen ground.
What is a tundra?
Land that is almost completely surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
Clear enough for ships to travel through.
What is navigable?
Available supply of a mineral - for Russia it's natural gas.
What is reserves?
A type of rich dust like soil deposited by winds.
What is loess?
An area of permanently frozen soil.
What is a permafrost?
Area on the dry sheltered side of the mountain which receives little rain.
What is a rain shadow?
What is the farthest east country that borders Russia?
What is China?
New patches of land created by reclaiming land from the sea through dikes.
What is polders?