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US Cities Flashcards

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COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES: The Menominee and the Winnebago once lived on the site of this football-mad city situated on Lake Michigan

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Green Bay

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FLORIDA CITIES: The code for its airport is JAX

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Jacksonville

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FLORIDA CITIES: A resort-retirement community; its name is from the Spanish for “mouse’s mouth”

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Boca Raton

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ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES: Diagnose, California

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San Diego

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4-LETTER U.S. CITIES: We bet you know that in population it’s the largest city in Northern Nevada

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Reno

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4-LETTER U.S. CITIES: The business center of “The Big Island”, it’s also the gateway to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

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Hilo

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MUSIC CITIES, USA: Often called “the birthplace of jazz”. it’s also the birthplace of Harry Connick Jr.

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New Orleans

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GEOGRAPHY 101: As you cross into San Francisco from the north on U.S. 101, you’re on this structure

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The Golden Gate Bridge

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QUICK GEOGRAPHY: The capital city of Puerto Rico

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San Juan

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Sometimes called the “Panhandle State”, it has 2 panhandles, with Wheeling in one & Martinsburg in the other

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West Virginia

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EXTREME GEOGRAPHY: In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134°

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Death Valley

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: This state capital is known as “The Big Pineapple”

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Hawaii

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in and around this Florida Panhandle city

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Pensacola

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Billings, Montana is found on this “colorful” river that shares its name with a major attraction

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Yellowstone

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: About 140 miles east of San Francisco, you’ll find this national park

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Yosemite

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: The highest state capital in the U.S. at about 7,000 feet, it lies in the northern Rio Grande Valley

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Santa Fe

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: This spacey Florida cape is just east of the Banana River

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Canaveral

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YOU CAN’T SPELL GEOGRAPHY WITHOUT “M”: This celeb-filled community in L.A. County lies on 21 miles of gorgeous but unstable coast

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Malibu

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FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY: Named for a president and developed around a ford in the St. Johns river, it’s Florida’s most populous city

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Jacksonville

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: This Arkansas capital is in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains

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Little Rock

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Many rivers flow into this large lake in the Sierra Nevada, but only the Truckee flows out

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Lake Tahoe

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CALIFORNIA CITIES: This city’s zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world

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San Diego

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PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: In 1971 the NBA’s San Diego Rockets moved to this city

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Houston

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MOUNTAIN + RIVER = STATE: Mount Shasta, Salinas River

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California

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PORTMANTEAU WORDS: The Oakland A’s won the World Series in 1972, ‘73 and ‘74, completing what we now call this

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Threepeat

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COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA: The A’s play in this city, the seat of Alameda County

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Oakland

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AIRPORT CODES: RMG, REO and FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon and Italy

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Rome

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USA!: Disneyland may be “the Happiest Place on Earth”, but this town in Pennsylvania is “the Sweetest”

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Hershey

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U.S. CITIES: Home to Disneyland, this city was founded by German immigrants in 1857

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Aneheim

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MOUNTAINS: You must be 42” tall to hop on this Disneyland ride; its 14,692-foot namesake in the Pennine alps is tougher sledding

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Matterhorn

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U.S. PLACE NAMES: This New Jersey city is named for the man who invented the carbon telephone transmitter in 1877

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Edison

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: In population, it’s the largest U.S. city with the same Spanish name as a current Western Hemisphere capital

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San Jose

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MERMAIDS: Statues of this Hans Christian Andersen heroine overlook Copenhagen and Solvang, Calif.

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The Little Mermaid

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