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100 Cards in this Set
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Where is the mouth of the Colorado River?
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Gulf of Mexico
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What mountains were formed more than 300 million years ago?
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The Rocky Mountains
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What were Detroit and St. Louis founded as?
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French fur trading forts
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What are the two largest Native American groups in the Intermountain region?
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Navajo and the Hopi Native Americans
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California's most precious natural resource is
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Water
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New England is in what climate region
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Humid Continental
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What major crops are grown in the southern states?
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winter vegetables, sugar cane, peaches, rice and peanuts
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What river forms the international boundary between the US and Mexico?
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Rio Grande
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What percentage of Americans live in urban areas?
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52%
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The Ohio River runs through which states?
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Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
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The population of the United States is approximately
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292 million
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Who were the earliest inhabitants of the intermountain west region?
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Native Americans
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Where is the greatest concentration of population in the United States?
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New England states in the Northeastern region
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Which are the top 10 U.S. Rivers?
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Missouri
Mississippi Yukon Rio Grande St. Lawrence Arkansas Colorado Ohio Red Columbia |
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What year did Alaska and Hawaii become states of the United States?
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1959
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Arizona is in what region?
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Interior West region
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Before the Europeans arrived, the largest Native Alaskan group consisted of?
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Inuit or Eskimos
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Napa Valley near San Francisco is famous for what?
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Vineyards (where they make wine)
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The smallest US state in terms of area is?
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Rhode Island
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What does the Megalopolis include?
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New England and Midatlantic states
particularly Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Washington D.C. |
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The source of the Missouri River is in what state?
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Montana
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What is Alaska's most important natural resource today?
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oil
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What small body of water connects Lake Superior with Lake Huron?
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St. Mary's River
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What states do the Appalachian Mountains go through?
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New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia
Alabama North Carolina South Carolinas |
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New England's many colleges and universities have?
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been the national leader in higher education
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What metropolitan area is known as the metroplex?
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Dallas-Fort Worth
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Hawaii economy is dominated by?
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tourism
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85% of California's water is used for?
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agriculture and farming
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What are some of the challenges that face the state of California?
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high housing costs
loss of farm land water shortages environmental hazards increased crime traffic congestion air pollution |
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The major source of water for Nevada, Arizona, and Southern California is?
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Colorado River aqueducts
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What is the largest city in the intermountain west region?
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Phoenix, Arizona
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The outflow of the Yukon River is what?
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Lake Laberge
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What city is the economic center of the Great Plains?
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Denver, Colorado
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What separates the major river systems of North America into those that flow eastward and those that flow westward
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Continental Divide
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What is Hawaii's most populated island?
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Oahu
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In the Great Plains region, farmers often combine live stock raising with what??
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wheat farming
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What are large modern farms owned by big corporations called?
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Agribusiness (mostly in California)
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Why is Hawaii's cost of living high?
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More than 80% of all food, energy, and materials are imported
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Fishing and forestry sources are probably most important to the economy of what states?
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New England states
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Who were the original inhabitants of Hawaii?
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Polynesians from the South Pacific
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What is the nation's fourth largest metropolitan area?
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Houston, Texas
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The southern United States contains about 90% of the country's what?
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U. S. textile industry
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What city was established by the Spanish in 1718 and is bilingual today?
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San Antonio, Texas
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The United States was the first country to develop what?
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Automobile production
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What rivers flow into the Mississippi?
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Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee and the Red River
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What city is a major oil tanker port and home to its famous jazz?
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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What region is West Virginia in?
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Northeastern United States
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What percentage of their income do Americans spend on food?
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12%
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The mouth of the Columbia River is the...?
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Pacific Ocean
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Coal mining is most associated with what region?
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Mid Atlantic States
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Today the US is about __ percent European Americans and ___ percent African American?
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75% European American
12% African American |
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The three largest metropolitan areas in the United States are?
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New York
Los Angeles Chicago |
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What landform extends from north and south from Canada to New Mexico and from the Great Plains to the Intermountain Range?
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Rocky Mountains
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What state has the lowest population?
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Alaska
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What body of water connects Lake Ontario with the Atlanta Ocean?
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St. Lawrence Seaway
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States that border each other as a single unit are called?
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Contiguous
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How many climate types are there in the United States?
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11
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Who arrived 500 years ago and claimed the southern part of the US?
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The Spanish
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The US ranks ___ in world land area?
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Fourth
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The US ranks ___ in population in the world?
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3rd
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What region stretches along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico from New York?
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Coastal Plains
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What are the two leading fishing states of the south?
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Texas and Louisiana
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What country did corn originate in?
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Mexico
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What percentage of the world's fresh water does the Great Lakes contain?
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20%
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What makes Hawaii unique among US states?
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It is a series of islands
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Recent immigration to the US has been mostly from where?
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Middle and South America and Asia
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As the US has become less industrialized and more technological, people have moved where?
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out from the cities and into suburbs
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The application of biology to industrial processes is called what?
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Biotechnology
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What state has the lowest per capita income?
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Mississippi
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The life expectancy of women in the United States is....
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79 yrs.
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The area of this state covers an area of one-fifth the size of the rest of the country.
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Alaska
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This city is the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Name of places that often reflect the history and culture of a region are called
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toponyms
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What was the first industrialized area of North America?
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Middle Atlantic states
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The largest state in the nation in terms of population
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California
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The United States and Canada share the longest ......?
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border
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The Rio Grande is closer to what city?
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San Antonio
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Tobacco was introduced to early settlers by
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Native Americans
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This city is a major port and manufacturing city on Lake Erie
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Land in this region is better suited to grazing rather than farming.
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Great Plains located in the Interior West
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What state is the nation's leading agriculture producer?
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California
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What city was founded by the French in 1718 and lies on the Mississippi River?
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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What subregion is the most populated and urbanized region with the greatest concentration of factories, banks, and universities?
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Northeast region
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The Erie Canal, built in 1825, was the first water route to connect the Great Lakes to the what?
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Atlantic Ocean
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What U.S. city is the home of the world's largest aircraft producer?
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Seattle, Washington
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What is the deepest and largest of the Great Lakes?
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Lake Superior
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What state has the lowest population the the United States?
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Alaska
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What city is located at the mouth of the Hudson River?
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New York City
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What state has the highest per capita income in the U.S.?
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Massachusetts
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What state has North America's highest mountain peak.
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Mt. McKinley, Alaska
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Almost 30% of the world's _____ reserves are in the United States?
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Coal
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What percent of the American population are farmers?
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less than 3 %
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One of the most severe climates of any inhabited area in the world is in this region
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Death Valley located in the Pacific region
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This is one of the world's major cotton growing areas
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Texas
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The source of the Mississippi River
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Lake Itasea
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The most populated and urbanized region in the United States is?
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Northeastern region
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Where is the Mojave desert?
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California
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What city is at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Lake Superior shares a border with what two states?
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Michigan and Minnesota
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The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers intersect at what city?
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St. Louis, Missouri
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