1. 10/12/17 LT: I can describe why the USSR and the US were not friends.
BBC: ASTEROID NEAR MISS!
TODAY:
VIDEO: BACK IN THE USSR
Assignment off of Unit 2 sheet .

2. Friday the 13TH!
LT: I can describe the physical features of Kazakhstan.
TODAY:
1. Turn in vocabulary
2. Extra Credit hand out
3. Educational film: On the Trail of Ghengis Khan (part 2)
Reminder: Vocabulary from Unit I will “zero” out forever after today.
I will be here until 3:45 today.

3. EXTRA CREDIT PACKET PAGES
PAGE 1- “TAKE NOTES”--USE PAGE 169 IN YOUR BOOK AND PLOT THE ROUTES OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD ALSO.
PAGE 2 – “WORD WISE”– 1=PG.152, 3&4=PG.158, 6=PG.160. ALL OTHERS=LOOK UP.
PAGE 3- “TAKE NOTES”-- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PG. 158, FALL OF SOVIET UNION PG.172
PAGE 4- “WORD WISE”—DO THIS PAGE
PAGE 5- SKIP
PAGE 6- “WORD WISE”-- DO THIS PAGE

4. Balalaika--it descended from the domra, an instrument from the Caucasus region of Russia. There is also similarity to the Kazakh dombra, which has 2 strings, and the Mongolian topshur.

5. LOCATION 63.1252° N, 103.7540° E Northern & Eastern hemisphere
On European and Asian Continents
11 time zones

6. What does GMT stand for?
If it is 1:00 GMT, what time is it in the purple zone?

7. Time in Russia USZ1 Kaliningrad Time UTC+2 (MSK–1) MSK Moscow Time
    
USZ1
Kaliningrad Time
UTC+2
(MSK–1)
MSK
Moscow Time
UTC+3
(MSK±0)
SAMT
Samara Time
UTC+4
(MSK+1)
YEKT
Yekaterinburg Te
UTC+5
(MSK+2)
OMST
Omsk Time
UTC+6
(MSK+3)
KRAT
Krasnoyarsk Time
UTC+7
(MSK+4)
IRKT
Irkutsk Time
UTC+8
(MSK+5)
YAKT
Yakutsk Time
UTC+9
(MSK+6)
VLAT
Vladivostok Time
UTC+10
(MSK+7)
MAGT
Magadan Time
UTC+11
(MSK+8)
PETT
Kamchatka Time
UTC+12
(MSK+9)

8. LT: I can describe the physical features of Russia.
10/16/17
LT: I can describe the physical features of Russia.
BBC: STORM OPHELIA=IRELAND
TODAY:
NOTES RUSSIA
MAP LABS: #4 & #6 ON UNIT SHEET: PAGE 143 & PAGE 147
KAMCHATKA PENNINSULA

9. RUSSIA
Russia

10. Distance from RC
Distance-- Miles: 6,600 + miles
18-22 hours

11. Description Russia consists of broad plains and steppes.
Russia covers one seventh of the world.

12. Bordering Countries
Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine.

13. Climate There is a cold, arctic climate in the north (Siberia)
There is a sub-tropical hot climate near the Black Sea.

14. Physical Features North European Plain and the West Siberian Plain
Ural Mountains , Altai Mts, Salan Mts, Verkhoyansk Mts, Kolyma Mts

17. People Russia is a multi-national state with over 185 ethnic groups.
Orthodox Christianity is Russia's largest religion with 75% of the population belonging to the Orthodox Christian Church.
Literature, philosophy, classical music, ballet, architecture, painting, cinema and animation are all traditions in Russia.

18. Changes in Land
Coal-mining and metallurgical centers have severely polluted air and water and many areas of the landscape.
Metalurgy—mixing
of metals.

19. 10.
The majority of people that live in Russia live in the European area.

20. 13. EXPORT GOODS
petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures

21. 14. IMPORT GOODS
Consumer goods, machinery, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, plastic, semi- finished metal products, meat, fruits and nuts, optical and medical instruments, iron, steel

22. 16. Languages Russian Tatar (Tartar) Ukrainian Chuvash Bashir Mordvin
Circassian
Chechen

23. 18. Similarity's to neighboring countries
Russia and the boarding states all have many different ethnic people within their borders.