Study Questions


1) What percentage of water has the Aral Sea lost?
80%
2) Why has this water been lost?
Because of evaporation.
3) What other environmental problems affect the area?
Runoffs.
4) What would have to be done to keep the lake at its present level?
You would have to remove 9 of the 18 million acres that are now used for farming.
5) What did you learn about Lake Biakal from the video?
I learned that it contains pollution from cellulose plants.
6) In the city of Verkhoyansk what extreme temperatures have been recorded?
- 90 F in the winter and 94 F in the summer.
7) How did Russia's harsh winter help the country in the 1800s (and during WWII)?
It helped stop Napoleon and his army because no shelter.
8) What made the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad an enormous undertaking?
It cover more than 5,700 miles and 70,000 workers moved 77 million cubic feet of the earth.
9) Research and find a major city in Siberia.  What is its population and major attractions? 
Novosibirsk has a population of 1,523,801 and it's major attractions are The Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, and the Novosibirsk Zoo.