http://www.deshow.net/travel/russia-travel-landscape-606.html

RussiaVocabulary Terms

1. Europe

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/worldfactfile/europe.html

When does it stop being Asia and start being Europe?

Russia is a Eurasian country: it’s in Europe and Asia.

Ural Mountains

Ural River

Caspian SeaBlack

Sea

1. Europe: the huge peninsula west of the Ural Mountains

http://huayyang.org/infoboard8/15.php?q=the-ural-mountains-on-a-map&page=3

2. tundra

Tundra is most like a desert, with average precipitation only about six to ten inches, mostly snow.

http://yamal-siberia.blogspot.com/2009/11/tundra-biome.html

winter

summer

http://assets.panda.org/img/rws0026_27_301720.jpg

http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/Pix/RY/02/RY.0133-14_P.JPG

reindeer

2. Tundra: treeless plains with snow & ice (except during short summer)

While most tundra is at high latitudes, there is also some tundra at high elevations.

http://morriscourse.com/elements_of_ecology/images/biome_map_tundra.jpg

3. permafrost

The permafrost in Russia can go down as deep as 1,968 feet.

http://bgrg.org/pages/education/alevel/coldenvirons/Permafrost%20Stucture.htm

http://images.travelpod.com/users/alleifer/7.1247351289.moss-campion-.jpg

http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/docs/kosterin/plants/ranunculaceae/ranunc2.jpg There is permafrost under tundra. So the

only vegetation is moss, grass, and

small plants - in the short summers.

http://www.eyefetch.com/image.aspx?ID=1389318

3. permafrost: soil at or below freezing for at least 2 years

It was discovered in 2007 and “lives” in a museum in Russia.

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews_impact/2009/04/large_042109mammoth1.jpg

This 42,000 year old baby mammoth was preserved in Russia’s permafrost.

4. taiga / boreal forest

How is the location of taiga different than the location of tundra?

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Boreal means “northern.”Taiga is the Russian word for “forest.”

But taigas look different than Oklahoma forests.

4. taiga / boreal forest: cold evergreen forest near the Arctic Circle

http://www.nearctica.com/biomes/boreal/borexam.htm

You can tell when taiga is getting closer to tundra. The permafrost makes it harder for many trees to grow.

5. steppe

davidderrick.wordpress.com

NO, not THIS kind of step!!

The largest steppe regions in the world are in southern Russia.

Steppes don’t get enough rain to have many trees.

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/images/grassland_location_map.gif

http://cache.photosight.ru/img/f/93b/3353326_large.jpghttp://www.sustainability.mottmac.com/scaled/1695f2d5.jpeg

5. steppe: semi-arid grasslands in Asia

http://www.exploringnature.org/graphics/biomes/map_grasslands_steppes.jpg

For some reason, only Asian grasslands are called steppes.

Well that’s just weird.

6. vegetation: plant lifethe tundra, The taiga,

and the steppe all have different

types of vegetation.

7. woodlands: forest

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Hoh_Rain_Forest_Maples.JPGhttp://1001arabian.net/tourist/Aspen%20Forest%20in%20Early%20Fall,%20Ohio%20Pass,%20Gunnison%20National%20Forest,%20Colorado.html

http://www.sincerelysustainable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Boreal-Forest.jpg

8. inland sea

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1566/X9/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1566-037030.jpg

Aral Sea

Caspian Sea

Black Sea

8. inland sea: huge saltylake

http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/mideast/info/maps/israel-water-systems-map2.jpg ttp://www.destination360.com/maps/utah-map.gif

The Dead

Sea

The Great Salt Lake

9. czar

From 1613 to 1917 (before the communist revolution), Russia’s 18 rulers were called czars.

Catherine II the Greathttp://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/files/2014/03/

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Peter the Greathttp://www.thefrenchblue.com/article2.htm

Nicholas Ihttp://ruhistory.narod.ru/ru/history/tsar/

romanovs/Nicolay1.jpg

Russian czars were basically kings that ruled as dictators. When a czar died, his son became

the new czar.

http://mrsmaciver12history.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/ac-nicholasii1.jpg

http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/media/TsarAlexanderii.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_III._Czar_Of_Russia_Nadar.jpg

9. czar: Russia’s historic “king”

http://gerrymaxeyworkshop.com/blogging/?tag=czar-nicholas-ii

Czar Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia.

He and his family were shot in 1918 as part of Russia’s communist revolution.

10. Cold War: U.S. v. Soviet Union, 50 years w/threats to use nuclear weapons

http://multimedialearningllc.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/kennedy-versus-khrushchev-cold-war-political-cartoon/

https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/Imperialism/ColdWarContainment

11. arms race

http://www.hamovhotov.com/fun/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/sand-artists-the-arms-race.jpg

No, no, NO! Not THAT kind of arms!!!!!

What “arms race” is this cartoon about?

A NEW KIND OF ARMS RACE

http://www.inkcinct.com.au/web-pages/cartoons/past/2008/2008-275--law-and-order-arms-race.gif

11. arms race: competition between countries to have the best and most

weapons

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/9/7/1/118971_v1.jpg

12. currency

Russia’s currency is the ruble.

http://www.dw.de/image/0,,17395860_401,00.jpg

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1121/1435739708_5cb0ad5c44_z.jpg?zz=1

12. currency: money