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What are the languages of Sardinia?
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Sardinian (Sardu), Italian.
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Polders are lands that have been?
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Reclaimed from the sea adjacent to the Netherlands by using dikes and pumps.
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What bodies of water collectively make up the Mediterranean?
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Atlantic, Aegean, Adriatic.
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In what city is Belgium's light industry concentrated?
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Antwerp
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Yerevan is the captial of?
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Armenia.
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The Walloons speak?
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French.
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What countries border on the Black Sea?
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Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia.
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What bodies of water are associated with Turkey?
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Black Sea, Aegean Sea.
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The rivers that flow through France are?
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Seine, Loire, Rhone.
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The language spoken in ANdorra is?
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Catalan.
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Which are the Baltic Republics?
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
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What European country has coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?
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Spain.
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England's major river is the?
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Thames.
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Balkanization refers to?
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Southern part of Eastern Europe that got divided into small political units (enthic cleansing)
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The Flemish speak?
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Dutch.
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Devolution refers to?
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The process where regions within a state demand and gain political strength at the expense of the central government.
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The major linguistic branches of the Indo-European languages are?
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Anatolian, Celtic, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavonic, Iranian, Indic, Greek.
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The capital of Malta is?
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Valletta.
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The Walloons live in?
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South Belgium.
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Riga is the capital of?
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Latvia.
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The Danube River runs from?
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West to East.
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Which river runs through Paris?
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Seine.
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The Rhine flows from?
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South to North.
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The capital of Andorra is?
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Andorra La Vella.
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Liege is a _____ in the country of _______?
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City, Belgium.
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A macroscale vegetation region is known as a?
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Biome.
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The transformation of raw materials into finished products is associated with the _______ sector of a nation's economy?
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Manufacturing Industry.
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A narrow strip of land connecting two large land bodies is known as a?
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Land Bridge.
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As a group, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico are known as?
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Greater Antilles.
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A Malquiladora is?
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Factory that assembles imported duty free/raw materials into finished products.
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The Central American country where English is spoken is?
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Belize.
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Belize's colonial name was?
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British Honduras.
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Tierra Templada is?
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The intermediate altitudinal zone in Middle/South America. (Temperate zone - crops of coffee, tobacco, corn, wheat.
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The two language groups in Canada are?
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French, English.
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The three leading fossil fuels are petroleum, natural gas, and?
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Coal supplies.
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The Yucatan Peninsula is part of the country of?
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Mexico.
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Which is the biggest state?
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Alaska.
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Which is the smallest state?
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Rhode Island.
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Which state reaches farthest north?
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Alaska.
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Which state reaches farthest south?
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Hawaii.
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Which state reaches farthest west?
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Alaska.
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Which state is split into two by a lake?
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Michigan.
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Which two states are perfect rectangles in shape?
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Wyoming, Colorado.
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Which state is shaped like a saucepan?
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Oklahoma.
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In which state would you be if you visited Lake Huron?
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Michigan.
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In which state would you be if you visited Lake Ontario?
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New York.
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In which state would you be if you visited the Great Salt Lake?
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Utah.
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Which state in northern USA is called south?
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South Dakota.
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Which state in southern USA is called north?
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North Carolina.
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Where do the four corners meet?
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Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona.
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How many states have a border with Mexico?
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4
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How many states have a coastline on the Pacific?
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3
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How many states have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico?
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5
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The term _____ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from moderating influences of large water bodies?
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Continental.
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In the earth's greatest ocean basin, water circulates in giant cells called?
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Gyres.
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The mountain chains in west central Russia that is often regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia is called?
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Ural Mountains.
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The term _____ refers to huge state farm and literally means "a grain and meat factory" in which agricultural efficiency through mechanization and minimum labor requirements should be at its peak?
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sovkhoz
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Russian imperialism in the 19th century was aimed chiefly at?
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Central Asia.
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Who was responsible for consolidating Russia's gains in the early 1700s and in making a European style state out of locally knit country?
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Peter the Great.
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Fortified trading towns in Central Asian were known as?
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Gorods.
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Seward's Legacy refers to?
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The US buying Alaska from Russia.
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Two Russian words that entered the international vocabulary introduced by Gorbachev are?
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Glasnost - open society
Penestroika - change economy |
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Czarina Catherine the Great's territorial acquisition thrust was aimed at?
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North America and the Black Sea regions.
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The low countries of Western Europe are referred to collectively as?
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The Spanish Low Lands.
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The major mountain chain in the eastern United States is the?
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Appalachian Mountains.
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The megalopolis is?
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A synonym of conurbation, one of the large coelescing supercities forming in diverse parts of the world.
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The conurbation produced by the coalescence of the Boston-Washington urban corridor along the northeastern seaboard of the US is known as?
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Megalopolis.
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Montreal and the lower course of the St. Laurence Seaway are locaterd in the Canadian province of?
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Quebec
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What geographic feature isolates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe?
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Pyrenees and Straight of Gibraltar.
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What alphabet do the Russians use?
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Cyrillic.
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What body of waters has connections with the Baltic sea?
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North Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland.
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The Great Lakes' main outlet to the sea is?
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St. Lawrence River
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The Panama Canal was opened in?
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1914.
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The core area of the Aztec state was located in?
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Valley of Mexico / Tenochtitlan.
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The funnel-shaped connection between North and South America extending from Mexico through Panama to Columbia is an example of?
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Land bridge.
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The chielf and political architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution that created the Soviet Union was?
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Lenin.
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The modern Russian state, which began as forest-based empire launched by Czar Ivan the Terrible, was centered in the city of?
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Tartarstan.
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How many republics are located in the Transcaucasian region?
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3.
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Which countries are in conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region?
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Armenia, Azerbaijan.
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Most of the population of Russia is found in the?
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Core area (Moscow, St. Petersburg).
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What is the name of the republic that was separated from the Ingush Republic and which is a major oil refining state?
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Chechnya.
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About _____ percent of the earth's crust is under water?
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71.
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The disintegration of the nation-state is referred to, in a word, as?
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Devolution.
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_____ are located in humid coastal tropical lowlands and produce a single crop, using imported captial and seasonal labor supply?
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Plantations.
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Guatemala today claims the country of?
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Belize.
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Name the Russian republic whose population has affinities with an ethnic group in Georgia?
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Ossetia.
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Amerindians in Canada are having their rights recognized by the federal government as evidenced by the formation of?
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Nunavut.
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We associate the term "first nation" with?
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Canada's indiginous people of American decent.
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Land in Mexico which is communally owned is called?
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Ejidos.
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Which state is split into two at the inlet of the sea?
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Maryland.
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In which state would you be if you visited Mississippi Delta?
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Mississippi.
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