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1) Byzantium was the Greek name for what present-day city in TURKEY?
A — Izmir
B — Istanbul
C — Ankara
2) What UNITED STATES town, located at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, was the site of an 1859 raid on a U.S. armory before the Civil War?
A — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
B — Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
C — Annapolis, Maryland
3) "In God We Trust" is the motto of which southern U.S. state that is home to Big Cypress National Preserve?
A — Georgia
B — Alabama
C — Florida
4) What is the term for the process by which ice sheets expand and reshape the physical landscape?
A — weathering
B — deposition
C — glaciation
ANSWERS
Question 1:
B . . . . . Istanbul
Question 2:
B . . . . . Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Question 3:
C . . . . . Florida
Question 4:
C . . . . . glaciation
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