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63 relations: African diaspora, Agriculture, Associated Press, Biodiversity, Boiling Lake, Bottlenose dolphin, Broad-winged hawk, Brown trembler, Bryde's whale, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Cetacea, Climate, Common dolphin, Cuvier's beaked whale, Desertification, Dominica, Dwarf sperm whale, False killer whale, Fraser's dolphin, Guadeloupe, Hummingbird, Humpback whale, Hurricane Allen, Hurricane David, Hurricane Dean, Hurricane Frederic, Hydropower, Imperial amazon, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Island, Landslide, Law of the sea, Lumber, Martha's Vineyard, Martinique, Morne Diablotins, Mountain, Mulatto, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pantropical spotted dolphin, Pilot whale, Prime Minister of Dominica, Pygmy sperm whale, Rain, Risso's dolphin, Roosevelt Skerrit, Roseau, Saffir–Simpson scale, Saint David Parish, Dominica, ..., Saint John Parish, Dominica, Scotts Head, Dominica, Sea level, Sperm whale, Trade winds, Tropical cyclone, Tropical monsoon climate, Tropical rainforest climate, Volcano, Whale watching, Windward Islands, Woodbridge Bay, Yellow-crowned night heron. Expand index (13 more) »
African diaspora
The African diaspora consists of the worldwide collection of communities descended from Africa's peoples, predominantly in the Americas.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Boiling Lake
The Boiling Lake is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica's World Heritage site.
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Bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin.
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Broad-winged hawk
The broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a small hawk of the genus Buteo.
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Brown trembler
The brown trembler (Cinclocerthia ruficauda) is a species of bird in the Mimidae family.
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Bryde's whale
Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Cetacea
Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Common dolphin
The common dolphin is the name given to two species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
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Cuvier's beaked whale
Cuvier's beaked whale or the goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), the only member of the genus Ziphius, is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales.
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Desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
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Dominica
Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.
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Dwarf sperm whale
The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima, formerly Kogia simus) is one of three extant species in the sperm whale family.
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False killer whale
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is the third-largest dolphin, a member of the oceanic dolphins.
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Fraser's dolphin
Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) or the Sarawak dolphin is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.
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Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Hurricane Allen
Hurricane Allen was a rare and extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that struck the Caribbean, eastern and northern Mexico, and southern Texas in August 1980.
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Hurricane David
Hurricane David was an extremely deadly hurricane which caused massive devastation and loss of life in the Dominican Republic in August 1979.
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Hurricane Dean
Hurricane Dean was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
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Hurricane Frederic
Hurricane Frederic was an intense and damaging tropical cyclone that carved a path of damage from the Lesser Antilles to Quebec, in particular devastating areas of the United States Gulf Coast.
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Hydropower
Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.
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Imperial amazon
The imperial amazon (Amazona imperialis) or Dominican amazon, also known as the sisserou, is a parrot found only on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
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Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants. Although some indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers—and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are—many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time and work in reshaping and cultivating the flora indigenous to the Americas. Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting and gathering. In some regions the indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, chiefdoms, states and empires. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by indigenous peoples; some countries have sizable populations, especially Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Greenland, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama and Peru. At least a thousand different indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan languages and Nahuatl, count their speakers in millions. Many also maintain aspects of indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects but also cater to modern needs. Some indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture, and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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Law of the sea
Law of the Sea is a body of international law that concerns the principles and rules by which public entities, especially states, interact in maritime matters, including navigational rights, sea mineral rights, and coastal waters jurisdiction.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe; often called just the Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony.
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Martinique
Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.
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Morne Diablotins
Morne Diablotins is the highest mountain in Dominica, an island-nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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Mulatto
Mulatto is a term used to refer to people born of one white parent and one black parent or to people born of a mulatto parent or parents.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.
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Pantropical spotted dolphin
The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans.
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
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Prime Minister of Dominica
The Prime Minister of Dominica is the head of government in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
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Pygmy sperm whale
The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species in the family Kogiidae in the sperm whale family.
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Rain
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.
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Risso's dolphin
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is the only species of dolphin in the genus Grampus.
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Roosevelt Skerrit
Roosevelt Skerrit (born 8 June 1972) is a Dominican politician who has been Prime Minister of Dominica since 2004; he has also been the Member of Parliament for the Vieille Case constituency since 2000.
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Roseau
Roseau (Dominican Creole: Wozo) is the capital and largest city of Dominica, with a population of 14,725 (as of 2011).
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Saffir–Simpson scale
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), formerly the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale (SSHS), classifies hurricanesWestern Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical stormsinto five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.
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Saint David Parish, Dominica
Saint David is one of Dominica's ten administrative parishes, located on the eastern side of the island.
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Saint John Parish, Dominica
Saint John is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.
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Scotts Head, Dominica
Scotts Head is a village on the southwest coast of Dominica, in Saint Mark Parish.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
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Trade winds
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.
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Tropical monsoon climate
A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".
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Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, also known as an equatorial climate, is a tropical climate usually (but not always) found along the equator.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Whale watching
Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.
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Windward Islands
The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.
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Woodbridge Bay
Woodbridge Bay is a bay on the southwestern coast of Dominica off Stock Farm, north of the main centre of Roseau and south of the village of Canefield.
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Yellow-crowned night heron
The yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea), is one of two species of night herons found in the Americas, the other one being the black-crowned night heron.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Dominica
