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A pyramid-like structure made of hardened clay bricks.
What is a ziggurat?
This country is where Lochness is located.
Where is Scotland?
One of the earliest forms of writing was used by the Mesopotamians.
What is cuniform?
What is hydroelectric energy?
Genesis 2:14
What is the verse that tells us where the Biblical city of UR is?
A sport from Northern Europe in which you try to make the ugliest face possible.
What is gurning?
The systems of customs, traditions, and habits that people use to make sense of their world.
What is culture?
A body of water between a mountain range or valley is caused by glaciers cutting through.
What is a fjord?
This is the number of languages a baby can supposedly speak at birth.
What are all world's languages?
This is the reason that map distortion happens.
What is because the earth is round?
The energy in a stream heated by magma intrusions can be harnessed to generate electrical power and heat.
What is geothermal?
This group is credited with inventing irrigation and sailboats.
Who are the Mesopotamians?
When the plates move and rub together, they create things such as volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.
What is plate tectonics?
A country is considered as a body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language inhabiting a particular area.
What is a nation?
An independent political entity formed by a group of people who share common cultural traits such as language, religion, and ethnicity.
What is a nation-state?
A hole in the ground, through which water will be pressed to explode through, due to the heating of magma and steam beneath the Earth's surface.
What is a geyser?
These are the 5 themes of geography.
What are Location, Place, Movement, Human environment interaction, and regions?
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Name all the counties that make up the United Kingdom.
What are England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland?
A warm ocean current that carries warm salty water to the Gulf of Mexico and across the Atlantic towards Europe, significantly moderating the climate of Northwestern Europe, making it milder and wetter than other regions at similar latitudes.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
A nation or territory is considered an organized national community governed by a single government.
What is a state?