Russia and Central Asia Map Test Review

A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line

• Tundra

• North Pole

• Great Plain

• Siberia

Also called an arctic forest or alpine forest, consists of coniferous trees

• Savanna

• Chaparral

• Taiga

• Boreal Forest

Permanently frozen ground

• Subarctic

• Subarctic

• Permafrost

• Top Soil

Rich, black topsoil found in the Northern European Plain, especially in Russia and Ukraine

• Chernozem

• Permafrost

• Top Soil

• Subarctic

This north-south range separates Siberia from the rest of Russia. It is commonly considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia.

• Caucasus Mtns

• Rocky Mtns

• Zagros Mtns

• Ural Mtns

Russia's great frontier region, a vast territory of what is now central and eastern Russia, most of it unsuited to agriculture but rich in mineral resources and fur-bearing animals. Also called the "Sleeping Land"

• Tundra

• Siberia

• North European Plain

• Savanna

The longest river in Europe and Russia's most important commercial river.

• Volga River

• Ob River

• Amur River

• Nile River

River that flows north to the Arctic Ocean.

• Volga River

• Nile River

• Amur River

• Ob River

Forms the border between Russia and China

• Ob River

• Volga River

• Amur River

• Nile River

Located in Siberia, this is the oldest and deepest freshwater lake in the world.

• Lake Baikal

• Caspian Sea

• Lake Superior

• Lake Tanganyika