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Lesson 53 of 84 · Geography

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The Great Lakes

🌍Mission Brief #53

Agriculture differs by region: wheat on the Great Plains, rice in Southeast Asia, coffee in Central America and East Africa.

🎯 Your mission

Navigate the world like an explorer with a question.

⚡ The twist

Where you live shapes how you live — more than you think.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 Russia spans 11 time zones. You could leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday without traveling for a day.

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Then & Now

🌍 The geography you'll learn is the same one your phone's GPS is using right now.

Agriculture differs by region: wheat on the Great Plains, rice in Southeast Asia, coffee in Central America and East Africa.

Key Facts

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There are five major oceans.

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Climate differs from weather.

3

Natural resources are limited.

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Question 1

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What are natural resources?

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find where everything in your fridge came from this week.

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For the dinner table

If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?

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