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Rio Grande
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A river flowing throughout the borders of North Mexico and South Texas.Rising in south Colorado.
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Andes Mountains
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The Andes are the world's longest continental mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America.
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Amazon River
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A major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river.
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Rain foreat and Amazon basin
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It is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America.
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Panama Canal
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A ship canal, about 82 km (51 mi) long, crossing the Isthmus of Panama in the Canal Zone and connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
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Yucatan Penininsula
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a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
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Demographics
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Demographics or demographic data are the characteristics of a human population as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research.
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Annual Income
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How much money a person makes every year.
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Ethnycity
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An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed- sharing cultural characteristics.This shared heritage may be based upon putative common ancestry, history, kinship, religion, language, shared territory.
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Literacy Rate
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The percentage of people in a place where people can read and write.
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Rural Population
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The amout of people that live away from the city.
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Urban Population
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The amount of people that live in the city.
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Cultural Trait
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It's what people inherit from their ancesters and parents.
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Cultural Region
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Cultural region is a term used mainly in the fields of geography. Specific cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage to the borders of a nation state.
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Independence
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Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty.
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Cultural Borrowing
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Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group.
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History
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The aggregate of past events,
a record or narrative description of past events and the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the futurethe continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.
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PERSIA
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P=Political,E=Economical,R=Religion,S=Social,I= Intellectual and A=Artistic
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5 Themes of Geography
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Location,place,region,movement and human environment.
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Language
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It is the main language people talk in a country.
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Religion
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the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.
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Colonial Ruler
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The person or people who colonized or took over a land.
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Literacy Rate
Definition
The amount of people who had the right amount and or kind of schooling.
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Income
Definition
The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time.
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Three Economic groups in Mexico
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Tourism,energy and industry.
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Problems caused by lack of water and air pollution
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Many people in Mexico do not get clean water because of the lack of clean water.Air pollution because Mexico is located inside a valley.
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How to write a memoir
Definition
First the lead has to hook the reader,the story has to be about a moment in your life and three get a good ending.
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Equator
Definition
The imaginary great circle around the earth's surface,equidistant from the poles and perpendicular to the earth's axis of rotation. It divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemispher.
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Region
Definition
A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space,area.
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Region
Definition
A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space,area.
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Thematic Map
Definition
Map that shows the average heat in a place or region.
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Definition
Map that shows the average heat in a place or region.
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Definition
Map that shows the average heat in a place or region.
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Thematic Map
Definition
Map that shows the average heat in a place or region.
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Political map
Definition
Representation of a country's territories, boundaries, and capital(s).
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