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The Rio Grande serves as a natural border between

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United States and Mexico,

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The highest point of the Appalachian Mountains is located

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at Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina

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The climate of the United States can best be described

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mostly temperate

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The Rio Grande is what of the Mississippi River

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southwest

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Washington , D.C. is what of Ottawa.

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south

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Canada is divided into three territories and how many provinces?

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10

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Of the following, which is the most significant factor in causing strained border relations between Mexico and the United States?

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Mexico is the largest foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine to the US market

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Fjords, glaciated valleys, and horns are all erosional types of landforms, created when

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a glacier cuts away at the landscape.

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Local topography and sea surface temperature contribute to

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differences in climate between various localities.

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as a large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities.

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ecoregion

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what caused virtually all of Canada and some of the northern US to be once covered by thick glacial ice almost 15,000 years ago?

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Changes in the earth's climate caused the ice sheets to grow.

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The impacts of El Niño upon climate in temperate latitudes show up most clearly during which season?

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winter

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Why are the Sierra Nevada lakes very sensitive to changing climate?

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because of extensive bedrock and little soil

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What is the major role of forests in North America?

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timber and hunting, recreation, source of drinking water

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Which of the following factors helped make inland transportation and commerce possible in the United States?

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intricate river systems

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What are the two most important resources in Canada?

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timber and oil

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Canada's strong regionalism is mainly attributable to which of the following?

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Large differences in natural resource distribution throughout the country

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What form of renewable energy has declined in recent years?

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hydropower

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he US Congress passage of the Homestead Act in 1862 can be considered a

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pull factor

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exchange of crops, animals, and disease between the Americas and Europe and Africa.

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colombian exchange

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the number of jobs in the U.S. increased by 24% between 1994 and 2007 due to

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NAFTA

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Which of the following is the best definition of the term indigenous?

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Native, or belonging naturally to a particular region.

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the process of knowledge, skills, and technology being spread from one culture to another

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diffusion

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When was the style of American blues developed?

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early 20th century

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Where does blues music originate?

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it was a combination of work songs and Christian hymns

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What man tapped out the following message in 1844: \"What God Hath Wrought?\"

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Samuel Morse

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can be caused either by climate change or destructive land use.

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Desertification

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The location and arrangement of both physical and human phenomena form

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regular and recurring patterns.

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Some cities develop in an evolutionary process based on changes in transportation, technology, and industrial energy.

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true

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What percentage of the world's lumber harvest goes to paper production?

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%25

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Where were most of the first settlements in America found?

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along waterways

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Where were America's first roads built?

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beside existing waterways

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.What has had the greatest impact on the fishing industry in North America over the past 50 years?

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improvement and modernization of boats and fishing equipment

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\"...try to imagine a mobile and completely self-contained timber- cutting machine that could smash through the roughest trails of the forest, cut down trees, mill them, and deliver consumer-ready lumber in half the time of normal logging and milling operations. This was exactly what factory trawlers did -- this was exactly their effect on fish -- in the forests of the deep. It could not long go unnoticed\". (Distant Water, William Warner) Based on this quote, what phenomena was this writer describing?

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distance water fleets, owned by foreign companies, decimated fish supplies

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What is a green collar job?

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Anything that helps put America on the path to a cleaner, more energy efficient future

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This city was once a city of industry, but now is a symbol of urban decay.

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Detroit

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How many plug-in hybrids does Obama want to see on the road in the next 6 years?

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1 million

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Glaciers have sculpted mountains and carved out valleys but no longer flow and shape the landscape today.

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false

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is the main threat to old growth forests found in the northwestern United States.

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logging

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The climate of Canada can best be described as

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variable

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Better climate prediction is important for which of the following reasons?

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better management of agriculture, water supplies, and fisheries

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The Mississippi River is what of Washington, DC.

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west

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Which of the following is not a resource the Appalachian Mountain range is well known for providing?

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copper

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Which President was initially responsible for campaigning for a North American common market, leading to the passage of NAFTA?

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ronald Reagan

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What was the primary purpose of NAFTA?

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facilitate the cross-border movement of goods and services

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is the 3rd largest of the seven continents

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north america

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The political geography of North America consists of three large countries

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US, Canada, Mexico

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s borders both Canada and Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

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United States

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borders the United States to the south, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean

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Canada

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shares its northern border with the United States and its southern border with Belize and Guatemala, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

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mexico

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divided into 31 states and 1 federal district.

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mexico

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divided into 50 states and its capital, the District of Columbia.

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united states

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divided into ten provinces and three territories

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Canada

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Mexico Population

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109 million

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led by a chief of state, democratically elected in compulsory elections.

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mexico

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Over 75% of mexico practices

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Catholicism

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The United States has a population of

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over 303 million

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Canada has a population of

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over 33 million people.

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mexico estimated gross domestic product (GDP), or total market value of all the goods and services produced, of

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$14,000 per person.

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United states has an average GDP of

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$44,000. per person

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Canada has a GDP of

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$40,000

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has a constitutional monarchy that is also a parliamentary democracy and a federation.

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canada

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democratically elected president and vice president, leading a country who was founded on the principle of separation of church and state.

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united states

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is much less variable and can best be described as ranging from tropical to desert.

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mexico

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The most prominent mountain ranges are

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the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Sierra Madres, the Cascades, and the Appalachian Mountains

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on the western side of the United States, extend 3,000 miles from the Mexican frontier up through Canada and Alaska.

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The Rocky Mountains,

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The highest point of the Rocky Mountains, - it stands at 14,433 feet.

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is Mt. Elbert -

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are found on the eastern side of the United States and are approximately 1,500 miles long. begin in Alabama and wind their way up through New England and extend into the Canadian provinces

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appalachian Mountains

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he highest point of the Appalachian Mountains is located

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at Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina.

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river system is the third largest river system in the world.

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Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio

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mainly flows southwest, It forms the natural borders of Ohio and West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky, as well as parts of the borders of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.

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the Ohio River

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the southwestern part of the United States, you can find what At 1,885 miles long, it is one of the longest rivers in North America.

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the Rio Grande River.

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It begins in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, then flows south through New Mexico. It forms the natural border between Texas and the country of Mexico as it flows southeast to the Gulf of Mexico

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rio grande river

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Mexicans refer to the Rio Grande as

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Rio Bravo del Norte.

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In Canada, one of the most important rivers is the what? It includes a series of man-made canals and is considered one of the most vital shipping routes in the world

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St. Lawrence River.

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flows for 760 miles and empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence (not labeled on the map)

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St. Lawrence River.

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Canada is also home to the largest bay in the world, as measured by shoreline It is approximately 850 miles long and 650 miles wide.

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- Hudson Bay.

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Canada was completely covered by a large ice sheet called

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the Laurentide Ice Sheet

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is the study of ice and its impact on the environment.

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Glaciation

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is simply defined as a (relatively) permanent body of ice

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glacier

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store about 75% of our earth's fresh water

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glacier

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long, narrow, coastal valleys, glaciated valleys, and horns are all erosional types of landforms created by glaciers cutting away at the landscape.

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fjords

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North America's longest glacier is

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Bering Glacier in Alaska, measuring 204 kilometers long

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is the process by which the earth's surface is exposed to physical, chemical, and biological processes that interact to wear away or change the land in some way.

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weathering

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Acid rain, for example, would be considered what, because the acidity of the rain causes the rock to decompose.

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chemical weathering

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Freezing temperatures, or a freeze-thaw cycle, is the primary cause of what, because the water present in rock expands as it freezes and then contracts as it thaws.

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physical weathering

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study historical climate conditions by investigating geological evidence and remains such as tree rings and fossils

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paleoclimatologists

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what much of the North American continent is covered by forests

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%36

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(forests that stay green for only part of the year and lose their leaves in the fall), experience four distinct seasons.

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deciduous forests,

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Monitoring what are one way that geologists study the climate of an area.

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soil temperatures

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the what are winds found in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. Their main role is to carry the warm waters and winds from the equator to the western coasts of the continents.

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revailing Westerlies

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revailing Westerlies main role is

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carry the warm waters and winds from the equator to the western coasts of the continents.

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Canada produces about how many barrels of oil a day and consumes about how many barrels of oil per day

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3.4 million;t 2.4 million

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Mexico produces how many of oil a day and consumes about how many barrels per day while

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3.5 million barrels ; 2 million barrel

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United States produces over how many barrels of oil a day but consumes over

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8 million barrels; over 20 million

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is something that \"pushes\" a person to leave his or her country

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push factor

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When the Jews fled their homelands that would be considered

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forced migration.

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is something that \"pulls\" a person to another country.

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pull factor

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arrival of the Europeans to North America in

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1492

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agreed to be the five most significant pieces of the exchange

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corn, potato, disease,horses, sugar

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is both a cause and a consequence of human migration.

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Environmental degradation

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is the process by which more and more people move to the city and more and more land that was rural becomes urban.

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Urbanization

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is a Greek word for great, large city. is an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas. occurs when several large cities merge together as their borders grow.

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megalopolis

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means just what it sounds like - part (or all) of a city falls into disrepair

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Urban decay

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Empty homes, high unemployment, and abandoned factories or business space all lead to

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urban decay.

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is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area.

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Suburban sprawl

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involves the permanent destruction of indigenous forests and woodlands. Many of these forests are converted to non-forest land for use such as arable land, pasture, urban use, logged area, or wasteland

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Deforestation

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is the degradation of dry lands

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Desertification

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Central to geography is the belief that there is

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is pattern, regularity, and order to the locations of human and physical phenomena on Earth's surface.

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is a perceptual structure, placement, or arrangement of objects on Earth.

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A spatial pattern

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he four basic components of spatial organization are

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points, lines, areas, and volumes.

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are built to divert water out of rivers for use in other locations or to capture water and store it for later use.

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dams

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causes major changes to weather and local climate patterns. is booming in recent years and there is no sign that it is slowing down

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urban growth

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Although North America accounts for approximately how much of the population,

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5%

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how many illegal immigrants are estimated to be in the United States?

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Somewhere between 7 and 12 million

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number of illegal immigrants in Canada?

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About 100,000 to 200,000.

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a person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another after being granted permission to do so by the government

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immigrant

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an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.

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illegal immigrant

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—an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.

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Undocumented immigrant

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