GEOG120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Radioactive Contamination, Acid Rain, Geopolitics
8 Dec 2016
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Russia plays a huge role in the us. Is russia european: what makes russia a domain rather than a region, transition from russian empire to ussr to russia, scratch a russian and you"ll find a tartar*** Eastern russia- all on the european plain. Asian russia- kind of a colony of russia. Huge coastline that"s covered with ice most of the year. All of the climographs have sharp distinctions of seasonality. Acid rain, forest damage, radioactive contamination, coastal pollution, polluted rivers. Impact climate change is going to have on russia- poles. The vast majority of people live in european russia. Migration patterns- soviet planners had an idea to actually have population dispersed evenly. Geopolitical effect- determined if people wanted kids or not. In which of the following countries does a non-slavic language dominate. 3 different types of languages and a lot of religions mixed in the area. In which country is there a west-east divide between catholics and orthodox christians.
