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192 Cards in this Set
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Th region your text book refers to as "russia's freezer" is:
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Siberia
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Compared with the area of the coterminous United States, siberia is:
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Larger
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The railroad network of the Soviet Union radiates from Moscow, providing the city with a high degree of:
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Centrality
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A national core area:
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-State capital
-Largest population cluster -Most efficient communications networks -Strongest cultural imprints |
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Which of the following is not one of the areas of challenge to Russia identified in your textbook?
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CLaims by romania on territory in the Dagestan Replublic
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The population os Russia is:
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shrinking by about 1 million per yer
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Russia today:
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-Is a Federation composed of autonomous areas based upon ethnicity
-is a Democracy |
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Under Putin, The russian republics have been organized into 7:
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fedral administrative districts
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Which of the following is not one of the areas of internal challenge to Russia identified in the textbook?
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Overpopluation
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Most of the popluation of Russia is found in the:
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western part of the country
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The term ______ is used to describe an inland climate that is remote from the moderating influences of large water bodies.
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Continentality
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A climate condition that might benefit Russia in the future is:
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Taiga
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Which of the following is true:
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Climate refers to long term average conditions
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The Vegetation on a treeless plain (mostly mosses, lichens, and grasses) is known as:
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Tundra
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Frozen ground is known as:
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Permafrost
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Which of the following physiographic subdivision contains the heartland (and Moscow)?
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The Russian Plain
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The mountains chain in west central Russia that is often regarded as the boundary between Europe and Asia is called the:
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Urals
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The Soviet Union consisted of 15:
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Soviet Socialist Republics
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Which of the following Soviet programs was most successful?
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Industrialization
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Geography is concerned with providing a spatial perspective on the world.
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True
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A classification system is known as a taxonomy.
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True
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Transition zones mark the place where geography realms meet.
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True
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A region marked by homogeneity is known as a formal region.
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True
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Besides location, a region must also have area.
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True
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A region need not possess the geographic property of location.
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False
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Relative location has less relevance in geography than absolute location.
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False
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A region arranged around a central urban core is known as a functional region.
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True
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Map scale is the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the earth’s surface.
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True
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A small scale map shows a large area.
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True
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Alfred Wegener developed the hypothesis of continental drift.
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True
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Pangaes is the name of Wegner’s super continent.
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True
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Deserts are found on the western sides of the continents.
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True
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The D climates are humid cold climates.
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True
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More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is ocean.
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True
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In the Koppen_Geiger scheme, the world’s drier climates are largely grouped under the letter A.
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False
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In general, the eastern coasts of continents in tropical and mid-latitude zones receive relatively high precipitation.
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True
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Highland (h) climates closely resemble the cold polar (E) climates.
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True
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Culture is totally genetically predetermined; it is completely instinctive.
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False
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Carl O. Sauer developed a school of cultural geography that had the concept of cultural landscape as its focus.
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True
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A cultural landscape consists of a composite of human imprints on the surface of the Earth.
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True
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Megalopolis is a multi-metropolitan agglomeration in the eastern United States.
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True
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The world’s population is now almost 4 billion in total size, and is expected to be about 4.2 billion by the year 2010.
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False
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Southeast Asia does not rank among the world’s four largest population agglomerations.
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True
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States first began to develop:
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In nareas where cities could begin to command their hinterland
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The system used in the United States to divide land is known as the:
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Euroean state model
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A map which uses a special transformation so that the areas of states reflect population size is called a:
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Cartogram
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In 1999, more than ____ percent of the world’s population lived in urban areas.
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40
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The large cluster of population in the northeastern United States is known as:
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Metropoltian
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Which of the following statements is incorrect
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More than 1/4 of the world's population presently resides in India
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Which of the following major rivers is not associated with one of the world’s great population clusters?
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Mississippi
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Which of the following is not one of the world’s three largest population concentrations?
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Eastern Africa
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Complicating the possibility of global warming is the possibility of:
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Glaciation
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Wegener’s super continent is known as:
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Pangaes
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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The smaller the representative fraction the larger the scale of the map.
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Which of the following statements concerning map scale is false?
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A map with fracional scale 1:103,000,000 has a larger scale than one of 1:1,000,000.
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The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as:
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a map scale
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A large scale map shows:
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a small area
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Which cartographic device, when deployed on a map, will tell you its scale?
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representative fraction
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All regions have all of the following except:
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Homogeneity
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The difference between “formal” and “functional” regions is:
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The nature of the unifying properties: static homogeneity vs. functional cohesion
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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Functional regions are generally more static and immobile than formal regions.
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A functional region:
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Includes a core of activity and the surrounding hinterland
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A region arranged around a central urban core is known as a:
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Funcational region
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In regional geography, relative location:
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is more meaningful and practical than absolute location
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The area around the city is known as its:
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Hinterland
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A classified system is known as its:
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Taxonomy
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Geography is united by the ___ perspective, which is common to all its fields.
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Spatial
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Muslim culture
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Southwest Asia/North Africa
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Caribbean islands
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Middle America
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World’s largest country in area
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Russia
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China
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East Asia
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India
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South Asia
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The “Language” of geography
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Maps
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A type of region marked by movement in or out of a node.
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Functional
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Poor, have-not, or disadvantaged countries.
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UDC's
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The dissolving and downward transport of soil nutrients by percolating water.
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Leahing
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A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena.
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Formal
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The Sub-Saharan African realm includes the entire continent of Africa.
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False
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Australia is included as part of the same region as Indonesia because of the cultural similarities.
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False
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The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to the South American realm.
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False
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Middle and South America together are sometimes called “Latin” America.
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True
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Colonies were places from which European powers obtained raw materials and to which they sold finished products.
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True
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The gap between advantaged and disadvantaged state in the world is growing.
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True
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First world countries are capitalist countries.
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True
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In UDC’s families spend a larges portion of their income on food.
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True
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UDC refers to underdeveloped countries.
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True
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A state constitutes a political region.
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True
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The European state model is gaining ground in the aftermath of the collapsed colonial and communist empires.
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True
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More than 50 percent of the world’s population now resides in urban areas.
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False
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The three largest population agglomerations in the world today all lie on a single landmass: Eurasia.
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True
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The great majority of the people of East Asia are concentrated in the great cities including Beijing (perking) and Shanghai.
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False
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The cost of doing busines in New England is higher than in the South or the Southwest
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True
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The St. Lawerence Seaway is the major river in French Canada.
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True
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The urbanization of the french within Quebec has lead to lessening ties to the Roman atholic Church and to decreases in the birth rates.
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True
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French speakers in New Brunswic are known as ecumenes.
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False
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Agriculture in French Canada is often done on "long lots" designed to be perpendicular to the St. Lawrence and other river and to give each farm access to roadways.
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True
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Wheat farming is, in general, located to the west of corn farming in the US.
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True
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The Spring Wheat belt is north of the winter wheat bet.
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True
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Gatway 2000's orginal home office was in Illinois.
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False
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Large scale corporate farming is beginning to dominate the Continental Interior at the expense of the family farm.
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True
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The population of the Continental Interior has increasing number of elderly persons.
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True
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The southern tier of the United States i a uniformly booming area.
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False
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The "bulldozer revolution" has occured in the Maritime Northeast.
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False
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Increasing numbers of Asians and Hispanics may be found in the South.
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True
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Miami is the "Gateway to Latin America".
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True
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The Southwest can be identified a a bucultural region of Hispanics and Anglos.
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False
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Electricity, water, and the automobile have all acted to develop the Southwest.
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True
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The Telecom Corridor is a technopole in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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True
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Development in Arizona has been compared to Israel's Negev.
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True
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The Western Frontier includes the states of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Western Colorado.
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True
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The Las Vegas area is the hottest growth area in the Wester Frontier.
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True
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Many transplanted Flordians have settled in the Western Frontier.
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False
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Managing growth without restricting economic activity are buzzwords heard in the North Amerian Core.
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False
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The Northern Frontier is the largest region in North America.
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True
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The Canadian Shield is located in the Northern Frontier.
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True
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The Northern Frontier has significant quantites of raw materials, including oil.
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True
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Thirty pe3rcent of the population of the Northern Frontier is in Alaska.
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True
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California is America's most populous state.
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True
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Aircraft manufacturing is particularly important in the pacific Northwest.
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True
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Unlike much of the rest of the western parts of the US, the Pacific Hinge ahs adequate rainfall.
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True
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The San Andreas fault is located in California.
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True
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Vancouver is the mot Asianized metropolis in North America.
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True
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Atlantic Province
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Nova Scotia
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Corn belt
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Illinois
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Adirondacks
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New York
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Oil Shale
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Colorado
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Francophone Canada
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Quebec
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Site of Canadian Capital
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Otawa
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Winter wheat belt
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Kanasa
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Vancouver
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British Colombia
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Corn Belt
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Iowa
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Mississippi
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Louisiana
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Stalin was the Soviet state's first Marxist Leader.
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False
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Lenin led the former Soviet Union during World War 2.
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False
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Gorbachev was the last communist dictator.
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True
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Russia is the world's largest state in population size.
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False
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The north_south mountain range in the central USSR which is often regarded as the "boundary" between Europe and Asia is called the Ural Mountains.
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True
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The great majority os the Soviet Union's inhabitants are concentrated to the east of the Ural Mountains.
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False
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Continentality is used to describe many of the climates of Russia
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True
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The mountain ranges in the north of Russia act as a significant barrier to the flow of Artic air masses, resulting in a warmer climate than might other wise be expected.
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False
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In generalm the north and west of Russia are flat, the south and east are mountains.
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True
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The Russian Plain is esentially an wastward continuation of the North European lowland.
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True
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The Ural Mountains, which run north-south across the Russian republic, are formidable obstacle to east-west transportation.
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False
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Permafrost is a barrier to settlement in the Central Asian Ranges.
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False
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In their eatward drive, the Russians were always careful not to annex any Chinese territory.
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False
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In the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks defeated the Mensheviks.
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True
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Under the Soviet economc system, assignment by Moscow, rather thanm market forces, ensured the dvelopment of places
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True
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In pursuit of communist reconstruction, Lenin starved millions of Ukranian peaseants to death.
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False
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Since the fall of the old communist regi e, Moscow and t government in it have become to be more and more respected by people throughtout the counrty.
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False
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China and Russia have several outstanding border disputes.
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Tru
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Moscow lies at the heart of the Central industrial Region.
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True
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During the worst excesses of the Stalin era, dissidents were exiled to Siberia.
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True
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The eastward flow of Russians to the Pacific coastal zone has been so great as to over burden the available accommodations there, and restrictions have been necessitated.
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False
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The Far east has benefitted significantly from the eographic proximity of Japan.
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False
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Georgia
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Birthplace of Stalin
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Armenia
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earthquake prone
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Ukraine
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grain production
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Lithuania
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Baltic republic
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Belarus
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Mens (Minsk)
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Oil center on Caspian Sea
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Baki (Baku)
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Formerly St. Petersburg
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Leningrad
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Pacific Terminus of Trans_siberian Railroad
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Vladivostok
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Northern seaport
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Murmansk
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Virgin and Idle Lands project
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Tselinograd
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Which of the following is inaccurate? Both Canada and the United States:
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Have large populations by world standards
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Which Canadian province contains the majority of French-speaking citizens?
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Quebec
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The major moutains chain in the eastern United States is the:
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Appalachians
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Th physlographic region called the Canadian Shield:
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Is the geologic core of North America
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Which of the following states contains territory located in the Intermontane Basin and Plateau physiographic province?
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Nevada
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Which Western United States city is least likely to suffer from the adverse effects of the "rain shadow" phenomenon?
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San Fransico
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Which of the following enviromental types grouped with the B climate?
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Steppe
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Which of the following statements about "D" climates is incorrect?
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D climates are more common in the Southhere than the Northern Hemisphere.
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Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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Most cultural traits are inherited.
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Which statement below best characterizes the conceptof culture?
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Learned patterns of thought and behavior characteristic of a population or society.
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Water covers about _____ % of the Earth's surface.
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70
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The process by which water circulates from the oceans to the landmasses is known as:
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hydrologic cycle
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The process by hich water retns to the atmosphere is known as:
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evapotranspiration
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Which of the following statement is true?
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Rainfall is least dependable in the drier portions of the world.
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In the eastern hemisphere, the moutain chains generally run in a ____ direction.
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east-west
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Rainfall patterns in humid tropical (A) climates are characterized by all but:
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principally nighttime eainfall in rainforest (Af) areas, reducing evapotranspiration.
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Which of the following is false?
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Tornadoes are much less common in North America than in other parts of the world
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An isohyet is a:
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line of equal rainfall
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A continental climate is most likely found in:
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Kansas
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Which of the following is not a major component of United States population movement?
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Canada to the United States
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Which of the following statement about migration is false?
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Longer distances to a destination atract more migrants than shorter disances.
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Which of the following areas was not one of the cultural hearths of the United States?
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The Ohio River Valley
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Which of the following is true?
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The United States is a fragmented state.
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Every year about _____ of Americans change residence.
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17%
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____ percentage of North American society lives in urbans areas.
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75%
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The two major languages groups in Canada are:
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English and French
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Complicating Quebec's secession from Canafa is that First Nation and Imuit peoples claim large sections of northern Quebec.
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True
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In 1995, Quebec voted to become Independent from Canada, but the move was overturned by the Canadian SUpreme COurt
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False
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