Question

1). How can climate affect transportation?

A: Climate can affect transportation as it can cause a delay in transportation or can enhance the speed and process of it?

2). To what depths can permafrost extend in Russia and the Republics?

A: ?

3). How has Siberia's climate affected transportation in the region?

A: ?

4). What impact did the Trans-Siberian Railway have on Russia's population?

A: The Trans-Siberian Railway caused a great increase in Russia's population.

Answer 1

1. HOW does climate affect transportation? What specific kinds of climate affects transportation?

2.
http://www.cost-pergamon.eu/PERMAFROST%20WEB/HTML/map3.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permafrost

Answer 2

1). Climate affects transportation by causing the cracking steel of vehicles and the explosion of tires. Severe climates affect transportation.

2). Permafrost can reach the depths of 1,500 feet in Russia and the Republics?

Answer 3

1, What is this? "cracking steel of vehicles ?

Did you ever hear of floods, snow storms, tornadoes? What makes it hard to get into the high Sierras in January?

2. "In areas of continuous permafrost and harsh winters, the depth of the permafrost can be as much as 1,493 m (4,898 ft) in the northern Lena and Yana River basins in Siberia. " -- from the Wikipedia article above.

Answer 4

1). I suppose it would be excessive snow, or a blizzard.

Answer 5

Right. Floods also sometimes interferes with transportation. Several years ago I tried returning from California to Michigan by train. I couldn't because the Mississippi River had flooded so much that the trains couldn't cross it.

I flew home.

Answer 6

Thank you for giving me guidance, but I am struggling with how to place all of this information into a sentence.