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Common Core State Standard
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.

Mosquito-borne virus spreads from Brazil along with warnings -- 01/25/2016

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Q: The Zika virus has infected more than 1 million people in Brazil and has been linked in the past four months to nearly 4,000 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect which causes abnormally small heads in newborns. Where is Brazil?

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