Geography Study Guide

What are the Ural Mountains?

• Mountains in Germany

• Mountains where they found frozen monkeys

• The mountain ranges that separate the Northern European and west Siberian plains.

A region that consist of the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

• Transcaucasia

• Caucasus

a region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

• Tajikistan

• Central Asia

• Uzbekistan

Longest European continent

• Don river

• Ob river

• Volga river

Four major vegetation regions: tundra, forest, steppe, desert

• Vegetation regions

• Mosses

Has lost about 80% of water since 1960

• the Atlantic Ocean

• The Aral Sea.

Makes it hard to build

• Floor is soggy

• Heat

• Permafrost

• Soil is zesty

Harsh climate has caused difficulties, but has also created advantages for inhabitants

• It is hot

• War and “General Winter”

a railroad that would eventually link Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

• John Henrys railroad

Powerful prince from Moscow

• Sub Zero

• Aladdin

• Ivan the Great

• Shang chi