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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Christianity
Political Boundaries
Geopolitical
Connectivity
2. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Eutrophication
United Nations (UN)
Eutrophication
World Trade
3. The height of a location above sea level
Less Developed Country
Dictatorship
Elevation
Archipelago
4. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Civil War
Internet
Subsistence Farming
Connectivity
5. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Capitalism
Cultural Divergence
Demographic Indicators
6. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Functional Region
Greenhouse Effect
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
7. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
North American Free Trade Agreement
Pull Factors
Welfare
Fault
8. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Voting Patterns
Renewable Resources
Latitude
Collective Farm
9. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Ecotourism
Hurricane
Civil War
Outsourcing
10. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Cultural Hearth
Region
Christianity
Monsoon
11. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Island
Climate
Theocracy
Physical Geography
12. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Hemisphere
Cultural Divergence
Commodity
Less Developed Country
13. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Glacier
Hemisphere
Capitalism
Terracing
14. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Emigration
Customs
Telecommunications
Standard of living
15. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Subsidized
Tarifff
Spatial Diffusion
Political Boundaries
16. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Cultural Divergence
Ocean Currents
Population Density
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
17. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Communism
Leeward
E-commerce
Perceptual Region
18. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Mantle
GIS
Standard of living
Autocracy
19. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Mantle
Genocide
Service Industries
Death Rate
20. Native to a place
Industrialization
Indigenous
Urbanization
Tertiary Economic Activities
21. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Connectivity
Megalopolis
Sikhism
Distribution
22. One who flees his or her home for safety
Theocracy
Refugee
Command Economy
Grid System
23. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Urbanization
Archipelago
Market Economy
Sustainable Development
24. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Telecommunications
World Trade
Command Economy
Refugee
25. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Judaism
Theocracy
Civil War
Phenomenon
26. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Elevation
Formal Region
Diversity
Suburb
27. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Unitary System
Embargo
Gross Domestic Product
Federal System
28. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Biome
Nonrenewable Resources
Gross Domestic Product
Symbiotic
29. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Patriotism
Plate Tectonics
Welfare
Water Cycle
30. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Water Cycle
Less Developed Country
Nationality
Democracy
31. A union consisting of 53 African States whose objectives are to: Accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent - Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples - Achieve p
Civil War
African Union (AU)
Spatial Diffusion
Sikhism
32. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Rain Shadow Effect
European Union (EU)
Less Developed Country
Ideology
33. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Oligarchy
Culture
Oral Tradition
Ethnic Cleansing
34. One of the oldest monotheistic religions; it is a religion & philosophy and way of life for the Jewish people. Belief in God as the written and oral Torah
Push Factors
Russification
Patterns of Settlement
Judaism
35. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
GPS
Judaism
Lithosphere
Doldrums
36. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Ecosystem
Domestic
Mantle
Infant Mortality Rate
37. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Water Cycle
Continental Drift
African Union (AU)
Civil War
38. Level of income and education
Isthmus
Weather
Socioeconomic Status
Embargo
39. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Secondary Economic Activities
Tsunami
Push Factors
Westernization
40. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Federal System
Buddhism
Weather
Political Boundaries
41. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Command Economy
Commercial Agriculture
Monsoon
Monarchy
42. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Nationality
More Developed Country
Diversity
Erosion
43. The movement of people into one country from another
Immigration
Dictatorship
Doldrums
Oligarchy
44. An area of a country where some normal trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in hopes of attracting new business
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Domestic
Utilization
Free Trade Zone
45. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Innovation
Grid System
Dynasty
GIS
46. System of government in which a small group holds power
North American Free Trade Agreement
Less Developed Country
Oligarchy
North American Free Trade Agreement
47. A group or chain of islands
Archipelago
Cottage Industry
Islam
Region
48. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Doldrums
Lithosphere
International
Cohesiveness
49. Process of converting into vapor
Evaporation
Ethnic Cleansing
Tsunami
Federal System
50. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Quaternary Economic Activities
Evaporation
Indigenous