Water
This lake has more fresh water than North America's Great Lakes combined
Lake Baikal
True or False? Central Asia has many trees because of the region's wet climate.
(If false, you must correct the statement)
What is: False
Which country does NOT belong to the Caucasus region: Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia
What is Kazakhstan
Round tent with a domed roof used by rural people of Central Asia
What is a Yurt
Soviet Labor Camps
What are Gulags
Green area by a water source in a dry region
What is an oasis
This mountain range separates Europe and Asia
The Ural Mountains
This sea lies east of Azerbaijan.
Caspian Sea
alike, of the same kind
Homogenous
Construction of this 6,152 mile long railroad began in 1891.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Russia's longest river
What is the Volga River
This sea lies west of Georgia
The Black Sea
Name the three countries that make up the Caucasus region
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
large government-run farms in the Soviet Union
Collectives
The reason Siberia's taiga is swampy
(layer of permanently frozen ground)
permafrost
The Deepest Lake in the world
What is Lake Baikal
a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
Tundra
What did many early conquerors of Central Asia seek to control?
What is The Silk Road
related to the keeping or herding of animals
pastoral
Fill in the Blank:
Most Siberians are ethnic_______________
Russians
Central Asia depends on the Syr Dar'ya and the Amu Dar'ya rivers for what?
What is irrigation
the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
Taiga
Name for Russian emperor
Tzar/Czar
Mountainous region between Black Sea and Caspian Sea.
The Caucasus
Longest Railroad in the world
What is the Trans- Siberian Railroad