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51 Cards in this Set
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Calypso
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A style of music that began in Trinidad and combines musical elements from Africa, spain, and the Carribean.
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Canadian Shield
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a northern part of the interior lowlands that is a rocky, flat region covering nearly two million square miles and encircling Hudson Bay.
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Canopy
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the area encompassing the tops of the trees in a rain forest, about 150 feet abouve ground.
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Capoeira
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a martial art and dance that developed in Brazil from Angolans who were taken there by the Portuguese from Africa.
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Carnival
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the most colorful feast day in Brazil.
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Carrying Capacity
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the number of organisms a piece of land can support without negative effects.
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Carthage
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one of the great empires of ancient Africa, situated on a triangular peninsula on the Gulf of Tunis on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Cartographer
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a map maker.
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Cash Crop
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a crop grown for direct sale, and not for use in a region, such as coffee, tea, and sugar in Africa.
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Caste System
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the Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation.
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Caucasus
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a region that straddles the Caucasus Mountains and stretches between the Black and Caspian Seas.
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Caudillo
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a military dictator or political boss.
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Central Asia
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a region that includes the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Central Business District (CBD)
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the core of a city, which is almost always based on commercial activity.
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Cerrado
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a savanna that has flat terrain and moderate rainfall, which make it suitable for farming.
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Chang Jiang
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the longest river in Asia, flowing about 3,900 miles from Xizang (Tibet) to the East China Sea.
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Chaparral
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the term, in some locations, for a biome of drought-resistant trees.
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Chechnya
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one of the republics that remains a part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union despite independence movements and violet upheaval.
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Chemical Weathering
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a process that changes rock into a new substance through interaction among elements in the air or water and the minerals in the rock.
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Chernozem
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black topsoil, one of the world's most fertile soils.
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Cholera
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a treatable infectious disease that can be fatal and is caused by a lack of adequate sanitation and a clean water supply.
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City
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an area that is the center of business and culture and has a large population.
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City-state
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an autonomous political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands.
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Climate
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the typical weather conditions at a particular location as observed over time.
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Coalition
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an alliance
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Cold War
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the conflict between the U.S and the Soviet Union after World War II, called "cold" because it never escalated into open warfare.
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Collective Farm
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an enormous farm in the Soviet Union on which a large team of laborers were gathered to work together during Joseph Stalin's reign.
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Columbian Exchange
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the movement of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration.
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Command Economy
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a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production.
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Commodity
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an agricultural or mining product that can be sold.
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Communism
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a system in which the government holds nearly all political power and the means of production.
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Confederation
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a political union.
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Confucianism
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a movement based on the teachings of Confucious, a Chinese philosopher who lived about 500B.C; Confucious stressed the importance of education in an ordered society in which one respects one's elders and obeys the government.
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Coniferous
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another word for needleleaf trees.
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Continental Divide
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the line of the highest points in North America that marks the separation between rivers flowing eastward and westward.
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Constitutional Monarchy
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a government in which the ruler's powers are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation.
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Continent
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a landmass above the water on the earth.
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Continental Drift
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the hypothesis that all continents were once joined into a supercontinent that split apart over millions of years.
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Continental Shelf
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the earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean.
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Convection
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the transfer of heat in the atmosphere by upward motion of the air.
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Continentality
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a region's distance from the moderating influence of the sea.
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Copra
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the dried meat of coconuts.
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Core
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the earth's center, made up of iron and nickel; the inner core is solid, and the outer core is liquid.
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Crude Oil
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petroleum that has not been processed.
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Crusades
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a series of wars launched by European Christians in 1096 to capture the Holy Land (Palestine) from Muslims.
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Crust
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the thin rock layer making up the earth's surface.
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Cultural Crossroad
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a place where various cultures cross paths.
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Cultural Hearth
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the heartland or place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures.
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Culture
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the total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a group.
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Cyclone
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a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of South Asia.
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Czar
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the emperor of Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
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