Russia/Eurasia - WG
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- The "Asian" part of Russia is mainly two heritage groups and is diverse. Name 2 groups.
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Diverse ethnic groups, customs, and traditions
many Turkic & Mongol heritage - Where is cotton production in Eurasia?
- Central Asia
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Water features of Russia
(rivers, seas, etc.) -
Volga, Ob, Lena, Amur Rivers
Lake Baikal, Pacific & Arctic Oceans, Aral, Black & Caspian
Seas - What is the main product produced by Russian Farmers?
- Wheat
- Where is most of Russia's farm/agricultural land?
- fertile triangle region, rich chernozem soils, West of Ural Mts., European part of Russia
- Negative aspects of Russia's natural resources
- not fully developed due to climate, limited transportation links, vastness of the country
- Energy resources of Russia
- hydroelectric power, oil, natural gas
- What makes up Russia's infrastructure?
- Trans-Siberian Railroad, systems of rivers & canals, other systems of railroads
- What did the former Soviet Union (USSR) leave behind?
- political/economic difficulties, environmental issues, pollution, transition from communist to free market economy
- Cultural landscape features
- Russian Orthodox churches, kremlin, St. Basil's church, mos1ques, minarets, Red Square, Siberian villages, soviet style apartment blocks or flats
- Russian cities that serve as centers of culture & trade
- Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok
- Northward flowing rivers (to Arctic Ocean)
- Ob & Lena Rivers
- Russian cultural items
- ballet, faberge eggs, music, icons, Matrioshka dolls, oriental carpets, samovars
- What two seas are shrinking?
- Aral & Caspian Seas
- What does "Siberia" mean?
- the sleeping land
- What mountains divide Europe and Asia?
- Ural Mts.
- Chernozem
- black earth belt, rich dark soil, full of nutrients
- Countries with large land sizes in Russia/Eurasia
- Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Countries with large populations in Russia/Eurasia
- Russia, Kazakhistan, Uzbekistan
- Countries with high GDP's in Russia/Eurasia
- Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
- Russia spans which two continents?
- Europe & Asia
- Major climates of Eurasia
- tundra, permafrost, taiga, steppe