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An area at or near the foot of a mountain region.
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What is the Peidmont?
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gently rising, hilly lands near mountaiins
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The region where the Coastal Plain meets the Peidmont; where rivers plunge over rapids and waterfalls form from hard rock under the peidmont to softer rock underneath the Coastal Plain.
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What is the Fall Line?
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The place where water power was first used for mills by waterwheels
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A low area of land generally surrounded by mountains.
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What is a Basin?
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The Great ______ and Death Valley are found west of the Rocky Mtns.
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Those states bordering each other as a single unit; "Continental U.S."
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What is Contiguous?
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Not including Alaska & Hawaii
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An ocean current that moves warm tropical water northward.
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What is the Gulf Stream?
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Favorite vacation spot with small waves and very white sand is complimented by this warm current of ocean water
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A large farm that concentrates on growing and selling one major crop such as cotton, tobacco, or indigo
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What is a Plantation?
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Sea Island cotton was grown on _________ on the eastern coast of the U.S.A.
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Parts of cities where minority groups are concentrated due to economic pressure and social discrimination.
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What is a Ghetto?
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An area of a city with poverty, frequent crime and mostly segregated by ethnic races
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An economic deficit in a country due to the value of its imports exceeding that of its exports.
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What is a Trade Deficit?
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Importing too many Hondas and exporting too few Fords.
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