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A giant suburb area extending along the eastern seaboard with 5 major cities: Boston, New York,Philadelphia, Baltimore, & Washington, District of Columbia.
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What is a Megalopolis?
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Major cities of the eastern seaboard which grow together into a continuous metropolitan area
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One of the oldest industries which makes thread and cloth from natural fibers in mills with looms.
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What are textiles?
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Cloth products or softwares
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A hard, speckled, crystaline, igneous rock formed deep in earth's crust under great heat and exposed by millions of years of uplift & weathering.
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What is Granite?
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A mineral used for gravestones and building material
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A landform surrounded by water on three sides.
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What is a peninsula?
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Examples are Florida (small scale) or the Iberian Peninsula (large scale)
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Materials piled up by the huge ice sheets of glaciers during the Ice Age;
a ridge of rocks, gravel, and sand deposited along the margins of a glacier/ice sheet. |
What is a Moraine?
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eroded material at the edge of glaciers
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The trees that cover an area after the original forest has been removed.
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What is a Second-Growth Forest?
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forest regrowth through seedlings
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The applicatio of biology to industrial processes, as pharmaceutical and genetic engineering research and the manufacture of products from that research.
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What is Biotechnology?
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Scientific study of life
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Produce grown in one area and trucked to city markets ( specific plants grown in certain regions).
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What is a Truck Farm?
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Movement of produce to market
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A form of soft coal found in West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, and borders of Kentucky and Ohio.
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What is Bituminous Coal?
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Called "coking coal" and used in blast furnaces to purify iron ore for making steel.
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What is Coke?
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Also the name of a soft drink
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Hard coal found in eastern Pennsylvania; a higher grade coal than bituminous but rarer due to cost of mining from deep within the crust.
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What is Anthracite Coal?
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Found in deep mines.
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Administrative units of New York City which are divided into Manhatten, Staten Island, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens.
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What is a Borough?
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Also called a rabbit hole
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A place where shipments of goods are moved from one mode of transportation to another (ex. , from train to ship or bus to train or plane to trucks.)
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What is a Break-of-Bulk Center?
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Separation of cargo goods for transportation purposes
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