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Folding

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The process creating folds (landforms resulting from an intense bending of rock layers).

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Folk art

Last modified by Driving Directions on 01/25/2021

Handmade items, such as pottery, woodcarving, and traditional costumes, are produced by rural people with traditional lifestyles instead of professional artists.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO was established on 16 October 1945 to raise living standards and increase the availability of agricultural products.

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Food chain

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The sequence through which energy, in the form of food, passes through an ecosystem.

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Food or waterborne diseases

Last modified by Driving Directions on 01/28/2021

Food or waterborne diseases are acquired through eating or drinking on the local economy.

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Foreign debt

Last modified by Driving Directions on 01/29/2021

Financial obligations owed by a country to the rest of the world and repayable in foreign currency.

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Formal region

Last modified by Driving Directions on 02/02/2021

A “human construct” that is often of considerable size, that has substantial internal unity or homogeneity, and that differs in significant respects from adjoining areas.

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Former Soviet Union

Last modified by Driving Directions on 01/30/2021

The former term often used to identify as a group the successor nations to the Soviet Union or USSR.

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Former USSR / Eastern Europe

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The Former USSR/Eastern Europe (former USSR/EE) is the middle group in the hierarchy of developed countries (DCs), former USSR/Eastern Europe (former USSR/EE), and less developed countries (LDCs).

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Fossil water

Last modified by Driving Directions on 02/08/2021

Water pumped from underground aquifers.

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Four Dragons

Last modified by Driving Directions on 01/30/2021

The Four Dragons are the four small Asian less developed countries (LDCs) that have experienced unusually rapid economic growth.

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Four Modernizations

Last modified by Driving Directions on 02/02/2021

The effort of the Chinese after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 to focus on economic development in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense.