HOMEWORK: Answer the following review questions
1) List three important cities that are located in the Northern European Plain.
Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev.
1) List three important cities that are located in the Northern European Plain.
Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev.
2) What percentage of the region's population lives in this plain?
75%.
3) What border do the Caucasus Mountains form?
3) What border do the Caucasus Mountains form?
They border Russia and Transcaucasia.
4) What are the two largest lakes in Central Asia?
4) What are the two largest lakes in Central Asia?
The Caspian and Aral seas.
5) How long is the Volga River?
About 2,300 miles.
6) Why is Lake Baikal important?
6) Why is Lake Baikal important?
The deepest fresh lake water in the world, holds 20% of the worlds fresh water.
7) What are some of the resources that have been developed in Russia and the Republics?
7) What are some of the resources that have been developed in Russia and the Republics?
Coil, iron ore, oil, natural gas, timber.
8) Why might extracting and transporting the region's resources be difficult?
8) Why might extracting and transporting the region's resources be difficult?
Because of rugged terrain and harsh winter climates in Siberia.
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