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Fill in the blanks using these words: 30 million, wrack, 15, 1%, 15, 7000, 850m, 22, 320, 130 million

Choose from the ten answers on the left which answer best suits each blank box below:

1. Rising to a height of Slieve Donard is the highest peak in the Mournes.
2. The B/E Aerospace factory in Kilkeel employs people.
3. The Mourne Wall is miles long and connects the summit of mountains.
4. used to be a natural source of fertiliser for Mourne's stony soil.
5. Fish landings into Kilkeel Harbour in 1990 totalled over tonnes.
6. The Silent and Annalong Valleys provide up to gallons, or litres of water a day to Belfast and County Down.
7. Only of the land surface in Mourne is afforested.
8. The average farm size in Mourne is hectares.
   

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