GEOG 1001 : Exam 2 Study Guide Geog
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Geog 1001 spring 2016: study guide for exam 2: how many people in total live in the russian federation, central asia and the. Transcaucasus: 232 million, the average gni ppp per capita in the russian federation, central asia and the. Where do these landscapes exist in the region, and what are their defining characteristics: tundra=arctic wilderness where the climate preludes any agriculture of forestry in the northern direction. Reindeers herders live here: taiga=uniformly covered in characteristic forests made up of larches: hardy, flat-rooted trees that can establish themselves about permafrost. Taiga has the largest zone; fur- bearing animals; coniferous forest: spruce, fir, and pine. Taiga is used to describe the entire zone of coniferous forest that stretches from the gulf of finland to the kamchatka. Carpathians t the altay mountains covering more than 4. 25 million sq. km. a steppe was cleared for agriculture.
