Standards & Objectives Analyze & assess the impact of the four major agricultural revolutions on the world’s human and physical environments. GHW.6.5 –Amu Darya River – Aral Sea Analyze and assess the patterns and networks of economic interdependence or lack of interdependence and the movement of goods & services. GHW.8.2 –Trans-Siberian Railroad

Landforms & Resources North –The Northern European Plain Chernozem- black earth/ fertile soil –West Siberian Plain Ural Mountains- divide Europe and Asia Eurasia –Siberian Plateau –Far East Kamchatka Peninsula: over 100 volcanoes

Landforms & Resources South –The Caucasus Mr. Elbrus- Highest Peak in Russia Transcaucasia- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia –Central Asia- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Landforms & Resources Rivers –Arctic Basin Drains more then 1,750,000 cubic feet water per second into Arctic Ocean –Volga Basin Volga River (Mother Volga) from Moscow to Caspian Sea –Amur River Border between Russia and China Lakes –Caspian Sea- saltwater lake –Aral Sea- saltwater lake –Lake Baikal- deepest lake in world/ 1 mile deep/ 20% of worlds fresh drinking water

Lake Baikal

Landforms & Resources Siberia- frigid arctic & subarctic region of Russia –Hard to retrieve resources, but full –Damages??? Trans-Siberian Railroad

Climate and Vegetation Continentality Midlatitude –Humid continental –Steppe- grasslands/ Chernozem Overgrazing and foreign plants introduced –Russian Winter High-Latitude –Subarctic Forest- Taiga- largest forest on earth –Tundra- treeless plain

What mountain range separates Russia as the European and Asian Continent? 1.Ural Mts 2.Caucasus Mts 3.Verkhoyanski Mts

What is the name given to fertile, black soil? 1.Chernobyl 2.Chernozem 3.Charabelum

Which lake is over one mile deep? 1.Lake Victoria 2.Caspian Sea 3.Lake Baikal

What Sea is shrinking rapidly? 1.Caspian Sea 2.Black Sea 3.Arial Sea

What did the Trans-Siberian Railroad connect? 1.North & South Russia 2.East & West Russia 3.Russia & USA