Geography

We are living in the Cenozoic era right now. Anything after the Cretaceous period is considered Cenozoic. However, modern humans have only been around for a few million years, and human civilizations have only been around for about 10,000 years.

Vatican City: population 900

It is the North and South Pole

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The highest elevation in Florida is called Britton Hill. It is in Walton County and stands 345 feet above sea level.

Solutions to deforestation are as follows:

1) Farming

2) Forest management

3) Reforestation

4) Forest plantations

The earth is always moving and lines move with it. If they are moving all at the same pace, they will never touch.

Aswan, Egypt is the driest inhabited place in the world, with only 0.02 inches in average annual rainfall.

The second largest desert is Africa is the Kalahari Desert.

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Because of the way the earth is tilting when its summer

The "TOP" of the earth is always leaning away from the sun, winter or summer

In addition, the sun's rays hit the equator at a more direct angle that at the Poles.

Vermont. New Hampshire comes close with only 18 miles of coastline.

Conventional Symbols are symbols that are used on maps to represent different features.

There is an interesting article by demographer Michael Barone that appeared recently in the online version of the Wall Street Journal. He describes in some detail how some cities and states are gaining and losing people.

The equator is unique in that it has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night every day of the year.

The major Nile dams are the Aswan High Dam, the Owen Falls Dam, the Sennar Dam and the Rosires Dam.

Ellis Island, Chicago or Milwaukee

Ireland and Great Britain are the two largest islands among a group of islands off the north-west coast of mainland Europe.

Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, usually called Asunción, is the capital of Paraguay

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