Vocabulary 1
This is a large extent of land
What is a landmass?
These separate the Plains of Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This is decayed plant material
What is peat?
Much of Russia's coastline lies north of this.
What is the Arctic Circle?
This geographical phenomena is an important factor in the climate of a region.
What is latitude?
This is permanently frozen ground.
What is permafrost?
The Eurasian republics are isolated by these two.
What are deserts and mountains?
This word means hard to reach
What is remote?
Russia is almost _____ miles from east to west
What is 6000?
This is the capital of Russia.
What is Moscow?
This is power generated by water.
What is hydroelectric power?
The geographic features limit this.
What is the population?
This is flat land found in arctic and subarctic regions.
What is the tundra?
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are the -- Republics.
What is Caucasus Mountain?
About 20% of the world's reserves of this are located in the region.
What is iron ore?
This is forest area where small evergreens grow.
What is the taiga?
The region is ___ of the earth's land surface.
What is 1/6?
This is used to describe an area with no rainfall
What is arid?
This warm current keeps Murmansk from being a frozen port all year.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
Resources in Siberia are difficult to get to because of this.
What is the temperature and remote location?
These resources cannot reproduce quickly.
What are nonrenewable fossil fuels?
The Aral Sea is located in these republics.
What are Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?
This is another name for a very large plain.
What is a steppe?
This sea separates the Caucasus Republics and the Central Asian Republics.
What is the Caspian Sea?
Irrigation for this crop was one cause of the drying of the Aral Sea.
What is cotton?