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Lesson 28:
Natural Resources and Economy of
Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation
ACTIVITY 1:
Use the Industry Organizer to answer the questions about the natural resources and economy of
Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation on the next page. Look for boldfaced words in your
organizer as clues of a country’smajor cash crops, exports, and industries.
Industry Organizer for Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation
Manufacturing/
Agriculture
Minerals
Services
EasternEurope
Estonia beef, dairy cattle, pigs,
shipping, food processing,
dairy products, timber
information technology,
cars, electronics
Latvia
beef, pigs, dairy farming,
peat, limestone
shipping,
trading center, food
wheat, timber, fishing
processing, electronics, tourism
Lithuania
beef, dairy farming,
pigs,
peat, petroleum,
food processing, paper/wood
grains, vegetables,
fish
limestone, amber
products, electronics
Belarus
grains, beef, dairy cattle,
coal, oil shale,
heavymachinery, tools,
timber, flax, potatoes,
petroleum, salt,
chemicals, oil refining,
bee keeping, fur farming
limestone, sand
textiles, electronics, cars, paper/
wood products, glassware
Ukraine
grains
–wheat, barley, oats,
coal,
iron ore,
heavymachinery, chemicals,
buckwheat, rye;
sugar beets,
oil/natural gas
fertilizers,
metal processing,
vegetables
, cotton
manganese ores foodprocessing,
cars
livestock
, wine, timber, sunflowers,
fish/sturgeon caviar
Moldova fruits, vegetables, tobacco, grains
food processing,
grapes/wine, sunflower seeds,
agricultural machinery
Romania grains, sugar beets, fruits,
petroleum, natural
machinery, metals, food
vegetables (corn),
gas, coal, lead, zinc, processing, petroleum
grapes/wine, timber
bauxite
refining, chemicals, cars
Bulgaria
tobacco, grapes/wine
,
copper, iron ore,
machinery, metals, food
sunflower seeds, fishing,
coal
processing, chemicals, tourism,
roses,
shipbuilding, textiles, rose oil
Russian
grains–oats, wheat, rye;
petroleum, ironore, steel, iron, chemicals,
cars,
Federation
potatoes, timber,
coal, gold, copper,
aerospace, e
ngineering,
(
European) other vegetables, tobacco,
zinc, platinum
textiles, timber processing
beef, dairy cattle,
citrus fruit; fishing
EasternEurope
