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the mountain range shared by Tennessee and North Carolina
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The Great Smokies
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a region of the Eastern United States including the Appalachian Mountains, famous for mountain traditions, folk music, arts, crafts, and also poverty
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Appalachia
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the mountain system of Eastern North America extending c. 2,574 km from Eastern Canada to central Alabama
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Appalachian Mountains
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a smaller version of a dome
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knob
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an area of land located at the foot of a mountain or mountain range
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piedmont
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the world's largest cave
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
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the road that links Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina
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Linn Cove Viaduct
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a mineral formation that looks like a waterfall flowing down a cave wall
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flowstone drapery
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a hole caused by river erosion
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natural bridge
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cave explorer
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spelunker
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the plateau region of the Eastern United States from New York to Alabama between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain
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The Piedmont
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hard coal, the least common of the three types
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anthracite coal
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a broad, rounded mountaintop
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dome
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Kentucky's far west, a part of the low plain that runs along the Mississippi River
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The Purchase
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the region in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River; named for the flower of a local grass
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The Bluegrass
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a huge hole caused by the weathering of rocks
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arch
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the most famous of the flowstone draperies
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Frozen Niagara in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
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a low-grade soft coal mined in West Virginia
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bituminous coal
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the local name for Kentucky's portion of a low interior plateau west of the Cumberland Plateau
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Pennyroyal Plateau
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the rugged region west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Appalachian Plateau
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the type of coal with high moisture content, so burns with less heat and more smoke
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lignite, or "brown" coal
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the only town in the United States that crosses a whole state (the northern panhandle of West Virginia)
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Weirton
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the name of the Appalachian Plateau in Kentucky and Tennessee
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Cumberland Plateau
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a region where water seeping through soft limestone has produced sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
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karst
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an overhang caused by boulders falling away from the hillside
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rock house
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the name of the Appalachian Plateau in West Virginia
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Allegheny Plateau
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the two main parts of the Appalachian Plateau
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Allegheny and Cumberland Plateaus
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the agency established in 1933 that regulates the Tennessee River and its tributaries in seven states
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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