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Russia and Central Asia

Physical Characteristics

Russia and Central Asia—Physical Features WS

1. How many times zones does Russia cover?

2. Which mountain range is usually considered the dividing point between Europe and Asia?

3. Where is the Volga River located?

4. Is there more land on the European or Asian side of Russia?

5. Russia spans nearly 170 degrees of longitude, which is almost half the globe. How many total degrees of longitude are there?

--What is the name of the 0 degree longitude line?

--What is the name of the 180 degree longitude line?

6. Name two reasons why it is difficult to govern a huge country like Russia.

7. What is permafrost? Where in Russia can it be found?

8. Where in Russia and Central Asia might you find a steppe region? What is the land like in a steppe? 9. Where can you find deserts in Central Asia?

10.What is chernozem soil? Where can you find it?

11.Where in Russia can you find a tundra climate? What is the land usually like in these areas?

12.Which country in Europe, formerly known as the “breadbasket of the Soviet Union”, is famous for its black earth?

13.Is there a higher population on the European or Asian side of Russia?

14.Which rebellious region of Russia can be found in the Caucasus Mountains?

15.Where do the Ural Mountains begin and end?

16.Where is the Aral Sea?

17.Where is Siberia?

18.Describe the population density in Siberia.

19.Where in Russia and Central Asia might you find good farmland?

20.Name two reasons why it is difficult and expensive to develop the resources in Siberia. 21.What river in Russia is the longest river in Europe?

22.Why is the Aral Sea polluted?

23.Where are the Caucasus Mountains?

24.Which body of water does the Ob River flow into?

25.What is the climate like in much of Siberia?

26.Which body of water does the Amur River flow into?

27.Name three resources found in Siberia.

28.What types of resources can be found in and around the Caspian Sea?

29.Where in Russia might you find a taiga region?

30.Which lake in Siberia is the deepest freshwater lake in the world?

31.Which river can be seen from the Kremlin in Moscow?

32.What is the world’s largest landlocked sea?

33.Which huge region in Russia is called “the sleeping land”? 34.Why was a canal built between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea? Which larger sea can be reached if you can get to the Black Sea?

35.The Amur River forms part of the border between Russia and which Asian country?

36.Name another river somewhere else in the world that forms part of a border between two countries.

37.Why is the Aral Sea shrinking?

38.Which body of water separates Russia from Alaska?