Stalin Gerogia Flashcards
(36 cards)
is often ranked as the world’s most valuable soccer team, and is one of the most widely supported sports teams on the planet.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid is a professional soccer team based in Madrid, Spain. The team name translates as “Royal Madrid”
Barça” is the nickname of the soccer club FC Barcelona (Futbol Club Barcelona). Barcelona is one of the most financially successful football clubs in the world in terms of revenue, along with the likes of Manchester United, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
2 largest component of natural gas
methane.
Ethane’s main use is in the production of ethylene, a compound that is widely used in the chemical industry.
Southernmost Great Lake :
Also borders
ERIE
Lake Erie borders four US states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan) and one Canadian province (Ontario).
this team the oldest, continuously-run, professional football team in the whole country.
Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals were founded in 1898 as the Chicago Cardinals
is a thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat flour.
Soba
In Japan, the word “soba” tends to describe any thin noodle, in contrast with the thicker noodle called “udon”.
pistachio is a small tree that produces some very tasty seeds. We see the seeds in grocery stores labeled as “nuts”, but botanically they are termed “
drupes”. Drupe or nut, they’re delicious …
” is Spanish for “health”, and is used as a toast.
Salud!
is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California, and lies just across the US-Mexico border from San Diego.
Tijuana
Tijuana is also the most westerly of all Mexican cities. A lot of Tijuana’s growth took place in the twenties as tourists flocked south of the border during the days of prohibition in the US. One of the many casinos and hotels that flourished at that time was Hotel Caesar’s in the Avenida Revolución area. Hotel Caesar’s claims to be the birthplace of the now ubiquitous Caesar Salad.
Baltimore oriole park
Oriole Park is home to the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. The full name of the stadium is Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The name “Camden Yards” is used because the ballpark is built on land that was once used as the rail yard for B&O Railroad’s Camden Station.
is a genus of trees and shrubs that is also known as thorntree, whistling thorn and wattle.
Acacia - in A savanna (also “savannah”) is a grassland. If there are any trees in a savanna, by definition they are small and widely spaced so that light can get to the grasses allowing them to grow unhindered.
The acacia is the primary food source for the giraffe in the wild, with the animal eating the leaves high in the tree, leaves that are inaccessible to competing species. The natural gum from two species of acacia tree is known as gum arabic, which is used in the food industry as a stabilizer.
Animal sidekick in “Frozen” :
SVEN
“Sven” is a Scandinavian name. “Sven” is derived from the Old Norse word for “young man” or “young warrior”.
are a genus of snakes with exceptionally long anterior teeth. Like all of this genus, they are nonvenomous snakes. The long teeth are used to penetrate layers of feathers so that they better grip birds, which make up most of their diet.
Tree boas
is the process of creating holes in the soil to aid in the growth of the grass. The spiking of the soil severs the roots of the existing grass, which causes the blades to multiply and hence thickening the lawn.
Lawn aeration
is an American actor who is famous for playing Jin-Soo Kwon on “Lost”. Kim moved on to play one of the leads on the CBS remake of “Hawaii Five-O”, portraying the character Chin Ho Kelly.
Daniel Dae Kim
was introduced to the world in 1953, and was named after the small maneuverable warship.
The Chevrolet Corvette
warship called a corvette
The “Vette” has legs. It is the only American sports car that has been around for over 50 years.
She is perhaps best-known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1957’s “The Three Faces of Eve”, and for being married to Paul Newman. While in her 50s, she spent ten years working towards a bachelor[s degree, and eventually graduated in 1990 from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York alongside her daughter Clea.
Joanne Woodward
” is the French word for the Christmas season, and ultimately comes from the Latin word for “birth” (natalis)..
Noël
“Noel” has come to be used as an alternative for “Christmas carol”
Actor is best known for playing Marshall on the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”. He is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, and performed a wedding ceremony on “The Tonight Show” in 2010.
Jason Segel
is a beverage company that uses real fruit juices to flavor its products. The name “” is the term used for sea spray that is blown from waves in high winds.
Spindrift
is the largest city in Brazil. It is also the city with the highest number of helicopters in the world. This is partly driven by the horrendous traffic jams, but also by the wealthy having a very real fear of being kidnapped on the city’s streets.
São Paulo
is the capital city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which is located in the south of the country.
Oaxaca (officially “Oaxaca de Juárez”)
the first Democratic US president
And founder
The modern-day Democratic Party was founded in 1828, when supporters of Andrew Jackson broke away from the former Democratic-Republican Party during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. That date makes the Democratic Party the oldest voter-based political party in the world. Andrew Jackson became the first Democratic US president, in 1829
is a section of a chromosome that is responsible for a particular characteristic in an organism.
A gene
For example, one gene may determine eye color and another balding pattern. We have two copies of each gene, one from each of our parents, with each copy known as an allele.
is the largest inland city in the state of California. It was named for the many ash trees that lined the San Joaquin River, as “it ” is the Spanish for “ash tree”.
Fresno
