By: Kaleigh, Joelle ,and Colin

1. Climate By: Kaleigh, Joelle ,and Colin

2. steppe • Mostly flat plains • Rich black soil good for farming- makes abundant crops • Longer growing season than the rest of Russia • Temperature is moderate • Found in the southwestern Russia • Many small animals

3. Bad aspects about the steppe climate • When there is not a lot of rain the wheat crops fail • It is not a good hunting area because of small animals • You cannot predict if they will have a rainy or dry year • So farmers will have trouble choosing what crops to plant

4. Tundra • Vast and rolling treeless plains • Only a top few inches of ground thaw out in the summer • The permanently frozen layers of soil are called permafrost • The tundra covers 40 percent of Russia • The tundra climate is located in northern Russia ( Siberia )

5. Subarctic • Biggest climate zone in Russia • Few people live in subarctic because it has very cold and bitter winters • Temperatures only rise above freezing in the summers • Located mostly everywhere in Russia except for SouthwesternRussia

6. Humid continental • Inland Europe, Asia or North America have this climate • Long, cold, and snowy winters-things freeze, short growing season • Short but very hot summers • Large grasslands and deciduous trees

7. In some regions there subsoil is covered by snow six months a year The bad things about the climate in Russia and how the Russian people adjust to it

8. How the climate has helped Russia in history • Russians have used their harsh winters to make their enemies retreat from invading them • In one situation the French tried to invade them and the Russians led them into Moscow leaving them with no supplies • Another time the German army tried invading Russia. They were in sight of Moscow when winter hit. Everything froze (including them) and they retreated

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