GEOG 1003 : Exam 2 Study Guide Spring
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South of 50 degrees: ural mts, north kazakhstan to arctic ocean, natural and cultural boundary between europe and asia, highly eroded- exposed mineral wealth. Siberia: east of urals, north of kazakhstan, mongolia and china, underlain by permafrost; 3" to 12", unstable, seasonally frozen ground. Aral sea: the sea shrank, affects- salt levels increased. Island where soviets stored bioweapons- these weapons weren"t destroyed: now a peninsula. Karakalpakstan: autonomous region, uzbekistan, dust, salt and pollutants, 150 million tons get dumped on central asia, high respiratory problems, birth defects doubled, throat cancer, 110 vs 10- death rate. Population and settlement: european core, demographic crisis (particularly men: life expectancy- males:59 women:72, russian women are unemployed- gorbachev said that women need to be at home to open up jobs for men. Things are being privatized and there is fierce competition for jobs: 70% of unemployed were women by late 90s.
