1. CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
CHAPTER 15 SECTION 2

2. WHAT CLIMATES DOMINATE THE REGION?
EXTREME CLIMATES
LOOK AT THE MAP ON PAGE 340.
WHAT CLIMATES DOMINATE THE REGION?

3. THE TUNDRA (PURPLE) AND SUBARCTIC (LIGHT PURPLE) REGIONS DOMINATE
SIBERIA.
HUMID CONTINENTAL (LIGHT BLUE) IS FOUND IN
THE WESTERN REGIONS.
DESERT AND SEMIARID IS IN THE SOUTH.
“CONTINENTALITY” AFFECTS CLIMATE BECAUSE OF THE DISTANCE
FROM THE MODERATING EFFECTS OF THE OCEAN. MOST OF THE AREA
OF NORTHERN EURASIA IS FAR FROM THE OCEANS.

4. THE TEAL BLUE IS THE TUNDRA REGION.
VEGETATION REGIONS
LOOK AT PAGE 351.
THE TEAL BLUE IS THE TUNDRA REGION.

6. FOREST
WHAT IS TAIGA?

8. THE GRASSLANDS OR “STEPPE”
WHAT IS A DEFINITION OF STEPPE?
DOES THE UNITED STATES HAVE
THIS VEGETATION REGION?
WHERE IS IT FOUND?

10. THE FERTILITY OF THE STEPPES DEPENDS UPON CLIMATE AND THE UNIQUE SOIL, CALLED “CHERNOZEM” OR “BLACK EARTH.”

12. TWO MAIN DESERTS ARE IN THE SOUTHERN REGION:
THE KARA KUM
AND
THE KYZYL KUM