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Eurasia Key Terms - Coggle Diagram
Eurasia Key Terms
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A person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area. 
- Eurasia - Europe and Asia considered together as one continent.
- Ural Mountains - A mountain range in the W Russian Federation, extending N and S from the Arctic Ocean to near the Caspian Sea, forming a natural boundary.
3 Siberia - An extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
- Tundra - A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
- Steppe - A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
- Permafrost - A thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions.
- Genocide - The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
- Chechnya - A predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia.
- Caucasus - A mountain range in Caucasia, between the Black and Caspian seas.
- Yurt - A circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey.
- Silk Road - Ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations.
- Nomad - A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
- Supra - Used in academic or legal texts to refer to someone or something mentioned above or earlier.
- Cold War - The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
- USSR - The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
- Russian Revolution - The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War.
- Taiga - The sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
- Baltic - Relating to the Baltic Sea or the region surrounding it.
- Climate of Russia - Russia's climate ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia, and subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north.