Physical Geography of Russia

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Chapter 15

• Physical Geography of Russia

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Northern Landforms

• Central Siberian Plateau
• Northern European Plain
• Ural Mountains (divide Asia and Europe)

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Northern Landforms

• Russia Stretches from the Bering and Okhotsk Sea
  in the West to the Ural Mountains in the East.
• Chernozem black earth
• Cities Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev
• Northern European Plain

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Eurasia is the Earths largest continuous landmass
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Russia tilts north rivers flow to Artic Ocean
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Southern Landforms

• Caucasus Mountains
• Separates Black and Caspian Seas
• Transcaucasia area between Black and Caspian seas

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Rivers and Lakes

• Artic Basin regions largest
• Volga River Europes longest
• Caspian Sea saltwater lake, largest inland sea
• Aral Sea-has lost 80 of water content

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Lake Baikal

• Deepest lake in the world
• About 1 mile deep
• Holds 20 of worlds freshwater