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37 Cards in this Set
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Beale Street |
"Home of the Blues" Street in Memphis Holds music festival every year |
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Headquarters of Coca-Cola |
Atlanta, GA |
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Charlotte, NC |
Hubquarter Major banking and insurance center |
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The Metroplex |
Dallas-Fort Worth Petroleum, telecom, computer tech |
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Research Triangle Park |
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill Duke, NC State, UNC |
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Memphis International Airport |
Busiest in air cargo in NA, second in world to Hong Kong FedEx World Hub accounts for most of airport's revenue |
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Mississippi Delta |
Shrinking Rising water levels sand trapped upstream by dams Wetlands being drained/fillrd near delta (normally absorb floodwaters) |
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Hurricane directions |
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Hurricane season |
Need warm waters August - October |
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Extratropical stage of hurricanes |
Reaches mid-high latitudes and starts to die (NE US into Canada) |
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Storm surge |
Pressure and winds push water into large mound just behind eye |
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Black Seminoles |
Gullah (escaped slaves) ran away and intermingled with Seminoles |
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Florida Seminoles |
First to have casinos on their reservations Own Hard Rock Cafe |
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Castillo de San Marcos |
Oldest intact masonry fort in NA Coquina - shells cemented together |
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Lafayette |
Center of Cajun culture in Louisiana |
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"Holy Trinity" |
In gumbo, onions, peppers, and celery |
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Balfa Brothers |
First to expose America to Cajun music |
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Creole |
Colonial French, descendants of the original French colonists of the Louisiana territory Often mixed with African Americans |
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Zydeco |
Louisiana black Creole music |
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SE Coast and citrus |
Most grapefruits from Texas coast
74% of oranges in US from Florida (most go to juice) |
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Houston and oil |
Lots of refineries, factories for oil field equipment |
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Energy Corridor District |
Houston, TX
Corporate or regional HQ for BP (US), ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil, Shell, etc. |
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Houston Ship Channel |
Links Port of Houston to Gulf of Mexico Important shipping lane to oil industry |
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Cancer Alley |
Lane of high cancer risks in Louisiana among Mississippi River Over 150 petrochemical plants, produce more than 1/4 of US petrochemicals Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans |
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Margie Richard |
Grassroots movement against petrochemical companies to expose pollution 2004 Goldman Prize Involved environmental scientist Wilma Subra |
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Formation of Yellowstone and the Rockies |
Subduction of a plate underneath the North American plate |
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Yellowstone |
MT/WY First national park in world |
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Grand Prismatic Spring |
Largest hot spring in US Located in Yellowstone |
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Faulting |
Crust is fractured, crust on either side shifts up or down |
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Front Range/Foothills |
Eastern boundary of Rockies in Colorado Most of CO population lives here |
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Great Continental Divide |
Fault line that created Rockies extends all along NA and into SA Divided watersheds that drain to Pacific from those that drain to Atlantic |
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Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnel |
Tunnel through the Rockies |
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Mount Elbert |
Highest peak in American Rockies |
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Montana nickname |
"Treasure State" Gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper |
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Butte-Anaconda District, MT |
Past strip mining "Richest hill on earth" Gold, copper Shut down in 1983 Butte now biggest hazardous waste site in US |
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Winter X Games |
Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, CO |
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Tour de Fat |
Started by New Belgium beer company
Beer, bikes |