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| boundary | граница |
| to share land borders with | граничить на суше |
| to be washed by | омываться |
| peninsula | полуостров |
| coast | морское побережье |
| counter-clockwise | против часовой стрелки |
| stretch | протяжение/простирание, пространство, участок, отрезок |
| mountain chain/range | горная цепь |
| slope | склон |
| desert | пустыня, пустынный район |
| various types of climate | различные типы климата |
| latitude (in the latitude of 40 degree South; at a latitude of ten degrees North) | широта (на 40 градусе южной широты; на 10 градусе северной широты) |
| deposits of coal | месторождение угля |
| heavy industry | тяжелая промышленность |
| eastwards | в восточном направлении |
| margin | берег, кромка, край |
| coniferous forest | хвойный лес |
| foliage | листва |
| sedge | осока |
| flowering herbs | цветущие травы |
| nuclear weapons | ядерное оружие |
Exercise1.
Match the highlighted words or word combinations in the text with their definitions.
1. comprising the whole number or amount;
2. persons who are kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime that they have committed;
3. in the order already mentioned;
4. extending across or relating to two or more continents;
5. treeless cold desert covers almost all the extreme north of European and Siberian Russia from the Arctic coast to the northern margin of the coniferous forest;
6. situated in the interior of a country rather than on the coast;
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7. the lowest point or part of something;
8. the outside part or uppermost layer of something;
9. a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water;
10. The territory which is famous for black earths or chernozems. Their thick upper layer consists of black organic matter or humus, the residual product of decayed roots and feather grass foliage, sedges and other flowering herbs.
