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Which description of the region best explains its borders? It includes three countries involved in a trade agreement.

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It includes three countries involved in a trade agreement.

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The regions shaded dark gray on the map below are all defined by the same criterion. Which description of the regions best explains their borders?

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They each have a tropical rainforest climate.

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The Midwest is traditionally considered to include only five states of the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin), but it is often defined as including the states of the Great Plains as well. The Midwest is an example of which type of region?

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Perceptual region

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Which type of region is the San Antonio River watershed? Options: Perceptual region, Functional region, Political region, Formal region

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Functional region

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Which factors  MOST contributed to the events described in the excerpt? Options: increased diversity in plants and trees, climate change and irrigation projects, increased use of fertilizers and insecticides, industrial development and chemical weathering

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climate change and irrigation projects

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What problem is MOST likely to arise from the Dutch polder system?

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Flooding causing environmental damage

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Based on this diagram, which factor is the primary cause of seasonal changes? Options: relative distance between the Earth and Sun, variations in the speed of the Earth’s rotation, tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun, colder and warmer regions of the solar system

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tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun

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Which process formed the Grand Canyon?

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erosion

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Which of the following processes is usually responsible for the creation of soil from solid rock? Seepage, Volcanism, Weathering, Fossilization

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Weathering

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Climate changes resulting from El Niño are said to cause all of the following EXCEPT — unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, drought in the West Pacific, increased rainfall across the southern United States, brush fires in Australia

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increased rainfall across the southern United States