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RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

Denmark will kill all of its farmed mink because of coronavirus -- 11/09/2020

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Q: Denmark has ordered the slaughter of more than 15 million mink at more than 1,000 fur farms because many are infected with a mutant strain of the covid-19 virus that has now spread to more than 200 people and may prove more resistant to a future vaccine. Where is Denmark?

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Q: Denmark also placed more than a quarter million people in lockdown to control the spread of the mutated virus. The lockdown site is at the northern end of which peninsula that contains most of the land area of Denmark proper?

A. Crimean

B. Iberian

C. Jutland

D. Scandinavian



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