GEOG 1001 : Test 2 Study Guide
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Norway, denmark, canada, and the united states making legal claims on the region. Lake baykal with a depth of 1615 meters: tundra, taiga, mixed forest, steppe, semidesert, desert. Where do these landscapes exist in the region, and what are their defining characteristics: tundra-an arctic wilderness where the climate precludes any agriculture or forestry, covers 2. 16 million square kilometers, representing almost 13% of the russian. Federation: most northerly, arctic wilderness, winters: weak daylight; snow, summers: long days; bogs and marshes. Indigenous peoples: reindeer herders, taiga- used to describe the entire zone of coniferous forest that stretches from the gulf of. Finland to the kamchatka peninsula more than 4. 4 million square kilometers. Beyond the wealth and grandeur of a few cities, however, Russia was very much a rural, peasant economy. In the latter part of the 18th century, under. In 1989, some 25 million russians suddenly found themselves to be ethnic minorities in newly independent countries.
