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Adıyaman
Adıyaman (Semsûr; Բերա; حصن منصور) is a city in southeastern Turkey, capital of the Adıyaman Province.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Aquaponics
Aquaponics refers to any system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Artificial island
An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.
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Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
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Bingöl
Bingöl (Ճապաղջուր Chapaghjur, Çewlîg, Çewlîg) is a city in Eastern Turkey.
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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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Black swan
The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.
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Black-winged stilt
The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae).
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Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
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Canna (plant)
Canna (or canna lily, although not a true lily) is a genus of 10 species of flowering plants.
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Caspian tern
The Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution.
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Cenote
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath.
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Chestnut teal
The chestnut teal (Anas castanea) is a dabbling duck found in Australia.
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Chinampa
Chinampa (chināmitl) is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
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City of Gold Coast
The City of Gold Coast is the local government area spanning the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and surrounding areas.
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Crannog
A crannog (crannóg; crannag) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes, rivers and estuarine waters of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
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Cyperaceae
The Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses and rushes.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Freedom Ship
Freedom Ship was a floating city project initially proposed in the late 1990s.
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Giant anaconda
Reports of giant anacondas date back as far as the European colonization of South America, when sightings of giant anacondas began to circulate amongst colonists.
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Great Raft
The Great Raft was a gigantic log jam or series of "rafts" that clogged the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers and was unique in North America in terms of its scale.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Hartbeespoort Dam
Hartbeespoort Dam (also known as Harties) is an arch type dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa.
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Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
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Iceberg
An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
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Inca Empire
The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.
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Inle Lake
Inle Lake (အင်းလေးကန်), a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma).
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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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Jade, Germany
Jade is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.
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Lake Buckeye
Lake Buckeye, a natural freshwater lake in eastern Winter Haven, Florida, United States, is somewhat oval in shape.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (French: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries.
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Lake Idyl
Lake Idyl, an oval-shaped lake, is a natural freshwater lake in northeast Winter Haven, Florida.
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Lake Kyoga
Lake Kyoga (also spelled Kioga) is a large shallow lake in Uganda, about in area and at an elevation of 1,033 metres.
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Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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Lake Porkuni
Lake Porkuni is a lake in Porkuni, in northern Estonia.
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Lake Tai
Lake Tai or Lake Taihu is a large freshwater lake in the Yangtze Delta plain.
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Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru.
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Lake Upemba
Lake Upemba is a lake in Bukama, Haut-Lomami District, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.
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Lake Visitor
Lake Visitor (Montenegrin: Visitorsko jezero) is a lake in the Plav Municipality, Montenegro.
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Local government
A local government is a form of public administration which, in a majority of contexts, exists as the lowest tier of administration within a given state.
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Loktak Lake
Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India and is famous for the phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil and organic matter at various stages of decomposition) floating over it.
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Marais Audomarois
The Marais Audomarois is a biosphere reserve in the north of France.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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North American river otter
The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter or the common otter, is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to the North American continent found in and along its waterways and coasts.
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Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is an international, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon.
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Pacific black duck
The Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa) is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.
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Phragmites
Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.
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Pollutant
A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
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Prashar Lake
Prashar Lake lies 49km north of Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, with a three storied pagoda-like temple dedicated to the sage Prashar.
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Project Habakkuk
Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies; see below) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice) for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
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Pumice raft
A pumice raft is a floating raft of pumice occasionally created by ocean-based or near-ocean volcanic activity.
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Pykrete
Pykrete is a frozen composite material, originally made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight).
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Qulla
The Qulla (Quechuan for south, hispanicized and mixed spellings: Colla, Kolla) are an indigenous people of western Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina living in Jujuy and Salta Provinces.
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Red-necked avocet
The red-necked avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) also known as the Australian avocet, cobbler, cobbler's awl, and painted lady, is a wader of the family Recurvirostridae that is endemic to Australia and is fairly common and widespread throughout, except for the north and north east coastal areas of the country.
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Salicornia
Salicornia is a genus of succulent, halophyte (salt tolerant) flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among mangroves.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.
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Schoenoplectus
Schoenoplectus (club-rush, bulrush or tule) is a genus of plants in the sedges with a cosmopolitan distribution.
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Seasteading
Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, outside the territory claimed by any government.
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Spiral Island
Spiral Island is the name of a floating artificial island built in Mexico by British artist Richart "Reishee" Sowa.
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Sydney Olympic Park
Sydney Olympic Park is a large sports and entertainment complex in the West of Sydney.
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Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan (Tenochtitlan), originally known as México-Tenochtitlán (meːˈʃíʔ.ko te.noːt͡ʃ.ˈtí.t͡ɬan), was a large Mexica city-state in what is now the center of Mexico City.
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The Hideout, Pennsylvania
The Hideout is a private community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lake and Salem Townships in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
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Totora (plant)
Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp. tatora) is a subspecies of the giant bulrush sedge.
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Typha
Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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Umbagog Lake
Umbagog Lake is a wilderness lake located in Coös County, New Hampshire, and Oxford County, Maine.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.
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Uru people
The Uru or Uros (Qhas Qut suñi) are an indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia.
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Vlasina Lake
Vlasina Lake (Власинско језеро/Vlasinsko jezero) is a semi-artificial lake in Southeast Serbia.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.
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Waterland
Waterland is a municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland.
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Watershed management
Watershed management is the study of the relevant characteristics of a watershed aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary.
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Wetland
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
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Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Garden is a city located west of downtown Orlando in western Orange County, Florida, United States.
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Winter Haven, Florida
Winter Haven is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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ZooMontana
ZooMontana is a wildlife park located in Billings, Montana, U.S. and is Montana's only zoo and botanical park.
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References
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