Eurasia Flashcards
What is the dividing line between the continent of Europe and Asia?
Ural Mountains
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus cover ____ of the earths surface.
12%
What are the three main climates in Russia?
Humid continental
Subarctic
Tundra
What two factors influence climate?
Temp and precipitation
What are ice breakers
Ships that are made to break ice in frozen waterways
What are the major rivers in Russia?
Volga
Yenesie
Amur
Obitarsh
What’re the four types of biomes found in Russia
Temperate forest
Steppes
Boreal
Tundra
What is the system of serfs being ties to the land?
Feudalism
What is the longest railway in the world?
Transsiberian railway
What is the oil pipeline in Russia called
Russia’s oil pipeline
What is CIS
Commonwealth of independent states.
What is the shatter belt
Caucasus MT
Region with frequent boundary changes
Who signed the Test Ban Treaty.
Canada USA Britain France Soviet Union
Where was testing nuclear weopons banned?
Outer space
Atmosphere
Under water
Where is the worlds largest hole?
Miry Diamond mine in Siberia
What was the program that tried to create farms in the desert lands of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?
Virgin & idle lands program.
What kind of crop were the Kazakhs and Uzbeks try to produce
Cotton
Which rivers were tapped for irrigation
Amur de sur
Syr de sur
Which island did the soviets dump their weopons on
What was this program called
Vozrozdenie island
Chemical and biological weopons program
