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Steppe
-Highly fertile chernozem soil
- helps make the grassland a major source of grain
Desert
-2 main deserts Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum
-combined both deserts cover 230,000 square miles

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Tundra
-mostly in the Artic climate zones
- mosses, lichens, small herbs, and low shrubs
Forest
-Taiga contains primarily coniferous trees
-sable, fox, ermine, elk, bears, and wolves

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February 5, 2013
- 216 cm (85 inches) of snow piled on top of the ground
-1.5 more above climate norm

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~ Siberians use frozen rivers and lakes as roads for part of the year

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~These climates reflect the influence of the regions high latitude and the impact of the wall of mountains in the southeast

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~ The cold climate can crack steel and cause tires to explode

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2010 (During June, July & August)
- 26 consecutive days with temperature above 86 degrees
-August 6 records broke when Moscow hit 102 degrees
- other parts of Russia had temperature that reached 111 degrees

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5 main groups
- Tundra
- Forest
-Steppe
-Desert

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- warm to hot dry summers up too 84 degrees
- Cold temperatures with temperatures of -30 degrees celsius or lower in wintwe

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~ In winter temperatures get colder both from south to north and from west to east. Summers can be quite hot and humid.
~ There is only 2 seasons in Russia
~ Russia has a huge area of arctic tundra
~ The taiga regions are the largest zones and hold the largest timber trees in the world
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