Unit 4 – Economic Characteristics. What is the major crop in the Fertile Triangle region? Wheat.
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Unit 4 – Economic CharacteristicsUnit 4 – Economic Characteristics
What is the major crop in the Fertile Triangle
region?
Wheat
What is the major crop in Central Asia?
Cotton
What type of energy is produced by dams?
Hydroelectric
In which body of water is oil found in this
region?
Caspian Sea
Which region of Russia contains around 80% of
Russia’s oil, natural gas & coal resources?
Siberia
What are 3 obstacles to developing Siberia’s
resources?
Climate, Limited Transportation, Vastness of
Region
How can Russia develop its resources when it
doesn’t have enough capital?
Foreign Investment
Since Russia had little capital to develop
infrastructure, what system of transportation was developed?
Rivers & Canals
What is the name of the one railroad project in
Russia that was successfully built in 1905?
Trans-Siberian Railroad
After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia
has experienced a wild …. period where a small number of men gained control of Russia’s greatest economic assets and made billions in the new market economy.
Privatization
What is the name
given to the billionaires who gained a huge amount of power along with their money?
Oligarchs
Russia’s new economy has created a wide
gap between the …
Rich & Poor
One of the challenges in this area is
widespread pollution. What is the name of the nuclear plant that leaked radiation in Ukraine in 1986?
Chernobyl
Another challenge is political … and …
Instability & Corruption