1. Agenda 11-18  1. Warm Up  2. Discuss Russian Climate and Vegetation  CLOSE Read “Yakutsk”  Students will read and analyze an article about Russian Geography, and summarize it’s main points

2. Warm-Up  1. Describe Russia’s geography (size, features)  2. Why do most Russian’s choose to live in European Russia? (West of the Ural Mountains)

3. Russia Climate and Vegetation 14-2

4. Russia’s Climate and Vegetation  Some rivers do not move for months  Long cold winters, short cool summers  Warmer air from Atlantic moderates temps in Euro Russia  Inter-Siberia,, isolated from oceans, has little precipitation, very cold

5. Yakutsk

6. High Latitude Climates  Almost all tundra lies north of Artic Cir.  10% of Russia, treeless, barren, freezing plain  Subarctic lies south of tundra, snow 120-250 days/year  Russia taiga supplies ½ of world’s softwood timber

7. Living in a Cold Climate  Keeping warms requires extensive use of natural resources, and layering  Buildings and cars made of steel that withstand cold temperatures

8. Mid Latitude Climates  Where vast majority of Russian live and agriculture produced  Humid Continental:  Temps in Moscow range from 9-75 F  Coniferous-decidous forest & grasslands have fertile soil  Steppe:  Temperate grassland, has chernozem

9. War and Winter  Napoleon’s Grand Army of 600,000 entered Russia 1812  Russia conducted scorched Earth campaign  40,000 troops made it out  Germany entered Russia December 1941, driven out by cold and troops  Cold made tanks/plan operational