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176 Cards in this Set
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Kentucky state flower
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Goldenrod
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Kentucky state song and author
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My old kentucky home, by Steven Foster
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Govenor of KY
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Ernie Fletcher
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Lt. Govenor of KY
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Steven Pence
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Sec. of State of KY
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Tray Graison
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Attorney General of KY
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Gregory Stumbo
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Auditor of KY
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Crit Luallen
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Treasurer of KY
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Jonathan Miller
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Number of KY state representatives
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100
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Number of KY state senators
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38
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Number in US house
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435
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Number in US senate
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100
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Most Western Physiographic region of KY
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Jackson Purchase
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Length of KY from east to west
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458 mi.
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Length of KY from north to south
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171 mi.
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Land between the lakes: Name the 2 lakes
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Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake
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Best theme of geography for Cincinnati area
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Movement
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Hypothesis
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educated guess
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Census
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detailed counting of population
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Most accurate method of showing the whole surface of the earth?
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Globe
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Another name for a flood plain
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Allurvial Plain
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Study of the earth's physical structure and history
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Geology
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Mountains that separate Europe and Asia
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Urals
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The height of elevation above the surrounding area
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Relief
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Flat low lying plain at the mouth of a river
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Delta
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Crack in the earth's surface
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Fault
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When a continental plate meets and oceanic plate and the oceanic plate slides underneath
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Subduction
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When 2 continental plates collide and push against each other
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Converging
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When 2 plates move apart from each other, creating a crack in the crust
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Rifting
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When 2 plates grind of slide past each other
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Faulting
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Area that's likely to flood
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Flood plain
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Wind blown deposits of mineral rich dust and silt
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Loess
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2 major causes of erosioin
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Wind and Water
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The breaking down of rocks at the earth's surface into smaller and smaller pieces
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Weathering
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When water seeps into cracks of rocks, freezes, and breaks apart rocks
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Frost Wedging
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When glaciers melted and receeded, in some places they left behind ridge like piles of rock and debris called what
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Moraines
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The conditions in one place over a short period of time
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Weather
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Weather an area or region experiences over a long period of time
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Climate
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Deflection of the wind
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Coriolis effect
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Regions of light winds at the equator.
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Doldrums
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Areas of light wind at or about 30 degrees N/S latitudes
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Horse Latitudes
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Blow steadily toward the equator
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Trade winds
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When the sun appears directly overhead to observers at the tropics
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Solstices
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Water vapor in the air
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Humidity
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How much does the temperature cahnge for every 1000 ft change in elevation
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3.5 degrees
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Requires the state to make all the economic decisions
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Communism
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For the good of society, the state owns and operates certain basic institutions
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Socialism
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People grow enough for their own family's or villages needs
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Subsistence Farming
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Crops and livestock are raised for sale in outside markets
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Commercial Farming
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A related set of seperate mountain ranges
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Cordilera
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Boundary that separates the rivers that flow west from the rivers that flow east
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Continental Divide
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The entire area of land that is drained by a major river and its tributaries
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Drainage Basin
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A measurement of a persons or group's education, housing, health, and nutrition.
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Standard of Living
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Areas that cities serve, that are quite large.
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Hinterlands
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Allows individuals to own, operate, and profit from their own business
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Free enterprise
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State with the coldest year round temperature
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Minnesota
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White Mountains
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New Hampshire
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Green Mountains
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Vermont
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Inventor of interchangeble parts
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Eli Whitney
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Worlds busiest market in chicago for various farm products
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Merchantile exchange
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Most of the nation's iron ore comes from what state?
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Minnesota
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Population of Canada
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32 Million
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Bordering on or related to the sea
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Maritime
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The right to vote is called _______.
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Sufferage
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Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
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Steven Harper
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The largest island in Canada is _______
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Baffin Island
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The first title wave power station in North America was built where?
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Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
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Province called The Rock
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Newfoundland
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Highest Point in Canada
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Mt. Logan
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To withdraw form a political organization
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Secede
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Largest lake in Latin America
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Lake Nicaragua
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Storm systems built around an organized low-pressure area
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Tropical Depressions
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The driest and one of the most lifeless places on Earth
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Atacama Desert
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The worlds highest water fall is __________ in the country __________
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Angel falls, Venezuela
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The language of the Inca's
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Quecha
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Large plains spread over Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina
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Gran Chaco and Pampas
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Dry plain and windswept plateau in the southern portion of the continent
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Patagonia
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People of Indian and Spanish ancestry
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Mestizos
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City of Gold
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El Dorado
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Forested regions in south america
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Selva
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Colombia
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Bogota
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Venezuela
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Caracas
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Guyana
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Georgetown
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Suriname
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Paramaribo
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French Guiana
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Cayenne
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Brazil
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Brasilia
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Ecuador
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Quito
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Peru
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Lima
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Bolivia
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La Paz
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Chile
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Santiago
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Paraguay
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Asuncion
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Uruguay
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Montevideo
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Argentina
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Buenos Aires
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Artificial watering of farmland, often by canals that draw water from reservoirs
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Irrigation
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Large estates owned by the spanish and often run as farm or cattle ranches
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Hacienda
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Steep cliff separating two low-lying areas
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Escarpment
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Three defining landforms of Central America
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Mountainous Core, Caribbean Lowlands, Pacific Coastal Plain.
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another name for corn
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Maize
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A member of an armed force that is not part of the regular army
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Guerillas
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The island groups of the Caribbeans
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Lesser Antillies, Greater Antillies, Bahamas
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Brazil's Northeast interior plain
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Sertao
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Slums in Brazil
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Favelas
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Tenant Farmers
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Campesinos
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Cap. of Scotland
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Edinburg
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Cap. of Whales
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Cardiff
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Mountains that run through Italy
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Apennienes
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Mountains in Greece
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Pindus Mountains
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Has a red dragon on its flag
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Whales
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Flooded river valley at the wide mouth of a river
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Estuary
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Oldest landmark in London
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Tower of London
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Areas of wet spongy ground
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Bogs
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Broad, treeless rolling plains
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Moors
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Stretches more than 1200 miles, flat fertile land. From France, through Germany, and into Eastern Europe
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Northern European Plain
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Variations of a language that are unique to a community
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Dilect
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Wine country in France
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Bordeaux
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Tourist area in France
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Riviera
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Busiest waterway in Europe
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Rhine river
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Chancelor of Germany
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Angela Merkel
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An area of low lying land that has been reclaimed from the sea
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Polder
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States in Switzerland
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Cantons (26)
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Peninsula that Spain and Portugal are located on
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Iberian
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Spain's lagest port
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Barcelona
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Portugal's main exports are:
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Cork and Olive oil
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River that runs through northern Italy
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Po
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Areas of land that have dropped down between faults
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Grabens
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Mountains that run through Greece
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Pindus Mts.
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Peninsula that is home to Greece
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Pelonese
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Only major city on the west coast of Australia
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Perth
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Largest city in New Zealand
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Auckland
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Capital of New Zealand
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Wellington
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Indonesia
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Jakarta
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Malaysia
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Kuala Lumpur
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Philippines
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Manilla
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Papua New Guinea
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Port Moresby
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Vietnam
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Hanoi
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Cambodia
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Pnom Pehn
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Laos
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Vientiane
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Thailand
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Bangkok
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Burma
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Rangoon
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Japan
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Tokyo
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North Korea
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P'yong yang
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South Korea
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Seoul
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China
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Beijing
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Mongolia
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Ulanbatour
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Taiwan
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Taipei
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India
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New Delhi
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Russia
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Moscow
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Largest island of Japan
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Honshu
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Only Mountains in Australia
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Great Dividing Range
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First Australians
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Aborigines
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Australia'a dialect of English
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Strine
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One of the world's great monoliths in the Australian desert
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Ayer's Rock
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Largest coastal reef in the world
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Great Barrier Reef
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Prime minister of Australia
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John Howard
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3 groups of Pacific Islands
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Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia
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Jets of heated spring water that shoot up through the earth
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Geyser
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Deepest point on Earth surface
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Marianas Trench
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Afgahnistan
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Kabul
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Pakistan
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Islamabad
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Philipenes
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Manilla
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Sri Lanka
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Columbo
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Iraq
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Baghdad
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Iran
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Tehran
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2 branches of Islam
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Sunni and Shiite
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Famous rivers that run through Iraq
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Tigris and Euphrates
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Military Commander in Iraq
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General Patrais
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Saudi Arabia
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Riyadh
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United Arab Emir.
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Dubai
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Oman
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Muscat
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Yemen
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Sanaa
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Syria
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Damascus
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Jordan
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Amman
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Israel
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Jerusalem
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Lebanon
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Beirut
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Turkey
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Ankara
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New Leader of France
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Nikolas Sarkozy
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