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... carrying its load of sand and mud , you were learning how soil is formed , out of which all plants grow . When you learned the names and uses of the plants and animals about you , you were study- ing geography . You began to study man ...
... carrying its load of sand and mud , you were learning how soil is formed , out of which all plants grow . When you learned the names and uses of the plants and animals about you , you were study- ing geography . You began to study man ...
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... carrying its load of sand and mud , you were learning how soil is formed , out of which all plants grow . When you learned the names and uses of the plants and animals about you , you were study- ing geography . You began to study ...
... carrying its load of sand and mud , you were learning how soil is formed , out of which all plants grow . When you learned the names and uses of the plants and animals about you , you were study- ing geography . You began to study ...
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... carried to the cities on boats or by rail . ( See Figure 24 ) . We Need Furniture . In our houses , we must have chairs , tables , and other articles . In the dining room and kitchen , we must have dishes and cooking utensils , and our ...
... carried to the cities on boats or by rail . ( See Figure 24 ) . We Need Furniture . In our houses , we must have chairs , tables , and other articles . In the dining room and kitchen , we must have dishes and cooking utensils , and our ...
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... carry- ing a warm cloak made of goats ' hair to wear on the march , and he has a blanket to keep him warm when he lies down to sleep . Women and Children . The women dress like the men , except that their robes are longer and fuller ...
... carry- ing a warm cloak made of goats ' hair to wear on the march , and he has a blanket to keep him warm when he lies down to sleep . Women and Children . The women dress like the men , except that their robes are longer and fuller ...
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... carried to the mouth of the river , where a delta has been formed . This gorge is about a mile in depth . FIGURE 24. Thick layers of clay beneath the soil . This clay is used for making bricks . stir up the soil and water until it is ...
... carried to the mouth of the river , where a delta has been formed . This gorge is about a mile in depth . FIGURE 24. Thick layers of clay beneath the soil . This clay is used for making bricks . stir up the soil and water until it is ...
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Africa Alaska animals Arctic Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean Argentina Asia Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria-Hungary Brazil British building built called Canada Canal capital carried cattle Central chief city climate clothing coal cold colonies continent corn cotton crops earth east eastern Empire Eurasia Europe exports factories farming FIGURE fish forests fruits Geography German Empire globe grain Gulf hills Indians industries iron islands Isthmus of Panama Lake land largest leading live Longitude lumber manufacturing Mexico minerals mines Mississippi moun mountains Name nearly North northern ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean Panama plants plateau Pole population race railroads rain regions River rock Russia salt sheep ships slopes soil South America southern Spain Square Miles Strait streams SUPPLEMENTARY READING surface tains trade trees TROPIC OF CANCER Tropic of Capricorn tropical United valleys western wheat York Zone
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Page 71 - Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Page 260 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 76 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 90 - A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water is called a strait.
Page 101 - They crossed the Rocky Mountains and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, thus gaining a foothold in the extreme Northwest.
Page 274 - Compare the cotton crop of the United States with that of the rest of the world.
Page 212 - Germany vast amounts of it are found a few feet below the surface of the ground in the northern part of the country.
Page 36 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 61 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.