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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.

Gambia’s desperate fisherman and emigrants -- 09/01/2025

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Q: In Gambia’s coastal waters, desperate fisherman are fighting a “sea war” against foreign vessels invading their fishing territory and destroying their nets. Other boats are filled with migrants on dangerous voyages to Spain’s Canary Islands. Where is the West African nation of The Gambia, the smallest country on the continental mainland?

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Q: A boat from Gambia capsized last week, killing as many as 130 African migrants . Most of those on board were from Gambia and Senegal, which surrounds Gambia on three sides. The boat sank off the coast of what nation north of Senegal?

A. Madagascar

B. Mali

C. Mauritania

D. Mozambique


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