What Is Cacao (The Cocoa Bean)?
The cocoa bean (or cacao) is native to South America, and is used to produce a wide array of culinary treats including chocolate and hot cocoa.
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What Does Extinction Mean?
Extinction is a sad but true fact of life in the ecological and biological realms of scientific study. While some are natural, modern extinctions are largely man-made.
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What Is A Fall Line, And Where Do They Occur?
Also known as a "fall zone", these unique geological features give rise to river rapids, waterfalls, and even historical American socioeconomic divisions.
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What Is A "Furrow" (in Agriculture)?
A furrow is a trench created by a plow or other implement in agriculture for planting crops within, or as a means to create irrigation pathways.
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The Gambia River
The Gambia River flows for around 700 miles through Guinea, Senegal, and the Gambia before emptying into the Atlantic.
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What And Where Is The Labrador Current?
The Labrador Current is found off of the east coast of Canada in the North Atlantic Ocean, and directly affects weather as far away as continental Europe.
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What Is The Ozone Layer (Shield)?
The ozone layer is part of the world's stratosphere with higher concentrations of Ozone gas, and this layer helps protect us from the sun's UV rays.
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What Is The Pacific Plate?
The Pacific Plate is a massive tectonic plate lying underneath the Pacific Ocean, and the largest oceanic plate of the planet.
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What Is A Qanat, And Where Are They Found?
In Persia and beyond, qanats have for millennia transported water to help facilitate economics, agricultural irrigation, and to meet basic human drinking water needs.
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Where Are The Ryukyu Islands?
Okinawa is the largest of these islands. Here, life seems to remain simpler and less industrialized than that seen in the rest of modern Japan.
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What Is Gum Arabic (Acacia Gum)?
This natural gum is produced throughout the Sahel, Arabia, and beyond for a variety of commercial uses.
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What Is Sisal (Agave sisalana)?
Native to Mexico and Central America, this fibrous species of agave is now cultivated in warm climes around the globe.
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The Syr Darya River
The drought-prone Syr Darya flows for almost 1,400 miles in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.
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Deadliest Minerals And Gemstones
Per research compiled by GeologyIn.com, these are some of the deadliest minerals in the world.
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What And Where Is The Hydrosphere?
The hydrosphere is the "water world" found collectively above, below, and directly upon the earth's land surfaces.
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What Is Jute Used For, And Where Is It Grown?
Much of this fibrous crop, well suited for rope- and bag-making, is cultivated within the Indian subcontinent of Asia.
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What Is The United States Geological Survey?
Began in 1879, the USGS operates within the United States Department of the Interior conducting research and disseminating geological data.
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Where Can The Vosges Mountains Be Found?
The Vosges Mountains of France span a length of 75 miles near the French-German border.
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Where Is Wake Island, And Who Owns It?
This unincorporated US territory is a strategically important island atoll in the western Pacific Ocean.
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What And Where Is Witwatersrand?
This 35-mile long escarpment in South Africa has both beautiful geological formations and breathtaking waterfalls.
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