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Russia Culture
Parts of Maps
Russia Physical Geography
Monuments of the World
Climate and Vegetation
100
Russians' territory has always been in European Russia, west of this mountain range.
What is the Ural Mountains?
100
Latitude and longitude lines together give you this type of location.
What is absolute location?
100
This is the longest river in Europe, and the main waterway west of the Ural Mountains
What is the Volga?
100
This monument in Washington, DC honors the president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
100
This is the name for a high-latitude evergreen forest.
What is a taiga, or boreal forest?
200
This part of the map tells you the orientaton.
What is the directional indicator?
200
The world's deepest lake, this body of water has approximately 1500 species found nowhere else on earth.
What is Lake Baikal?
200
This church in Paris has a world-famous, round, stained glass window.
What is Notre Dame cathedral?
200
This refers to the climate common in high-mountain areas, where vegetation changes as you climb higher.
What is highland climate?
300
These paintings, often brightly-colored or gilded with precious metals, are important in Russian Orthodox churches and homes.
What are icons?
300
If you change this element of the map, the picture appears more or less "zoomed in," with a different amount of detail.
What is map scale?
300
This is the name for the shrubby grassland, frozen at least part of the year, that covers Russia's coldest areas.
What is tundra?
300
This St. Louis monument honors the pioneers who settled the U. S. west.
What is the Gateway Arch?
300
The United States southwest has our country's largest amounts of this very dry climate.
What is arid?
400
This kind of toy has dolls that pop open and reveal a smaller doll.
What is matryoshka?
400
This element of maps refers to the overall look of a map, based on where the mapmaker puts the distortion.
What is map projection?
400
This is the direction that the Ob River flows.
What is north?
400
This church in London has long been the royal family's official house of worship.
What is Westminster Abbey?
400
This warm ocean current makes western Europe's climate wetter and milder than you might expect.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
500
This is the name of the jeweler who made richly-decorated, expensive eggs for the Russian royal family.
What is Faberge?
500
This is the name of the rounded-line projection most often used for teaching and learning, in classrooms.
What is the Robinson projection?
500
This is the name of the body of water that separates Asia (namely, the Russian part) and North America (specifically, Alaska).
What is the Bering Strait?
500
This Russian Orthodox cathedral, near the Kremlin in Moscow, is brightly painted and one of the most famous churches in the world.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
500
This explains why the Great Plains, just east of the Rocky Mountains, have a semi-arid climate and need irrigation for good crop growth.
What is the rain shadow effect?