The Great Lakes
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31,700 sq mi
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Lake Superior
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23,000 sq mi
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Lake Huron
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22,300 sq mi
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Lake Michigan
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9,910 sq mi
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Lake Erie
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7,340 sq mi
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Lake Ontario
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Falls
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Biggest Waterfalls in North America
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Niagara Falls
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Falls in a Wyoming NP
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Yellowstone Falls
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Falls in a California NP
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Yosemite Falls
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Lakes
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Brackish estuary close to New Orleans
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Lake Pontchartrain
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Largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere
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Great Salt Lake
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Largest reservoir in the US
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Lake Mead
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Lake straddles the border between California and Nevada
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Lake Tahoe
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Largest freshwater lake in Florida
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Lake Okeechobee
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Five Longest Rivers
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2,341 mi
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Missouri
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2,202 mi
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Mississippi
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1,979 mi
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Yukon
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1,759 mi
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Rio Grande
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1,450 mi
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Colorado
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Which Rivers Flow through these Cities?
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Dallas
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Trinity River
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Portland
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Willamette River
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Sacramento
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Sacramento River
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Denver
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South Platte River
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Cincinnati
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Ohio River
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New York
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Hudson River
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Washington, D.C.
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Potomac River
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Atlanta
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Chattahoochee River
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Phoenix
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Salt River
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On Which Sounds/Inlets are these Cities Located?
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Seattle
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Puget Sound
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Anchorage
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Cook Inlet
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Three Major Mountain Ranges
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3,000 mi
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Rocky Mountains
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1,500 mi
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Appalachian Mountains
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400 mi
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Sierra Nevada
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Other Mountain Ranges
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Mountain range in northeast New York
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Adirondacks
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Located on the northwest coast of the US
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Cascade Range
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Located mostly in Missouri and Arkansas
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Ozarks
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Tallest mountain range in the United States
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Alaska Range
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Three Highest Peaks
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20,310ft
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Denali
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Former official name
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Mount McKinley
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18,009 ft
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Mount Saint Elias
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17,400 ft
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Mount Foraker
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Highest Peak(s) in...
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California
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Mount Whitney
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Colorado
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Mount Elbert
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Washington
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Mount Rainier
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Wyoming
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Gannett Peak
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Hawaii
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Mauna Kea
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Mauna Loa
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Volcanoes
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Supervolcano under a National Park
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Yellowstone Supervolcano
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Major 1980 eruption
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Mount St. Helens
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Potentially active volcano, as well the highest peak in Oregon
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Mount Hood
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Low Points
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Lowest point (-279ft)
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Badwater Basin
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States with a point lower than 0 ft
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California
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Louisiana
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Four Biggest Hawaiian Islands
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4,028 sq mi
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Hawai'i (The Big Island)
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737 sq mi
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Maui
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597 sq mi
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O'ahu
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552 sq mi
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Kaua'i
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Other Islands
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Biggest island in Alaska
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Kodiak Island
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Biggest island in New York
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Long Island
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"There was once a man from ________"
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Nantucket
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Islands in New York City
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Manhattan Island
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Staten Island
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Gateway for immigrants
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Ellis Island
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Island on which the Statue of Liberty is located
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Liberty Island
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Biggest Islands in Overseas Territories
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3,515 sq mi
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Puerto Rico
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210 sq mi
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Guam
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Peninsulas
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On this peninsula is Nome, AK located
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Seward Peninsula
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Region in southwest Alaska
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Alaska Peninsula
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In Los Angeles County
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Palos Verdes Peninsula
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An US State
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Florida Peninsula
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A cape that can be viewed as a peninsula
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Cape Cod
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Two biggest peninsulas in Michigan
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Lower Peninsula
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Upper Peninsula
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Delaware is mostly located here
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Delmarva Peninsula
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Where Olympic National Park is located
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Olympic Peninsula
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Bays
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Hint: Santa Cruz, CA
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Monterey Bay
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Hint: Oakland, CA
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San Francisco Bay
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Connects ^ with the Pacific Ocean
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Golden Gate
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Hint: Malibu, CA
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Santa Monica Bay
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Lagoon near Miami, FL
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Biscayne Bay
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Hint: St. Petersburg, FL
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Tampa Bay
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Hint: Maryland and Virginia
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Chesapeake Bay
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Where the Packers play
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Green Bay
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Hint: Greater Houston, city devastated by a 1900 hurricane
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Galveston Bay
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Regions
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Broad expanse of flat land; stretching from Canada to Texas
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Great Plains
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The northeast
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New England
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LA, MS, AL, GA
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Deep South
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Swampy wetlands in southern Florida
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Everglades
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Located in Nevada and Utah, endorheic basin
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Great Basin
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Deserts
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Driest desert in North America, near Las Vegas
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Mojave Desert
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Famous valley located in this desert
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Death Valley
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Covers the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico
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Sonoran Desert
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Unusual gypsum dune field in New Mexico
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White Sands
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Grand Teton in Wyoming is 13,775
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