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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Regulations
Steam Power
Cultural Convergence
Fold
2. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Free Enterprise Economic System
Gross Domestic Product
Theocracy
Pull Factors
3. 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
Free Trade Zone
Periphaler
Autocracy
Megalopolis
4. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
United Nations (UN)
Political Boundaries
Climate
Tornado
5. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Islam
Functional Region
Command Economy
Refugee
6. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Island
Earthquakes
Vegetation
Socioeconomic Status
7. (OPEC) a collective of countries founded in 1960 that choose to collaborate in order to manage the exportation of their crude oil to the rest of the world
Democracy
Leeward
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Traditional Economy
8. Self-rule
Death Rate
Monarchy
Hurricane
Sovereignty
9. The movement of people into one country from another
Death Rate
Immigration
Clan
Socioeconomic Status
10. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Connectivity
Global Trade Patterns
Surplus
Customs
11. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
World Trade
Island
Sustainable Development
Vegetation
12. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Suburb
Commercial Agriculture
Ocean Currents
Totalitarian System
13. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Aerial Photographs
Subcontinent
Cohesiveness
Gross Domestic Product
14. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Biosphere
Sovereignty
Westernization
Precipitation
15. The part of the Earth where life exists
Oral Tradition
Doldrums
Biosphere
Theocracy
16. A system of ideas and ideals & esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political policy; the ideas and manner of thinking of a group social class & or individual
Ideology
Manufacturing
Refugee
Domestic
17. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Commodity
Population Distribution
Patterns of Settlement
Cottage Industry
18. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cultural Divergence
Regulations
Totalitarian System
Geopolitical
19. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Eutrophication
Free Enterprise Economic System
Commercial Agriculture
Emigration
20. The force of bringing group members closer together
Polytheism
Scarcity
Lithosphere
Cohesiveness
21. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Polytheism
Sikhism
Nationalism
Drought
22. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Nuclear
Eutrophication
Rain Shadow Effect
Tertiary Economic Activities
23. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Subcontinent
Functional Region
Patriotism
24. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Literacy Rate
Islam
Telecommunications
Diversity
25. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Flood
Public Policies
Unitary System
Global Warming
26. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Manufacturing
Subsidized
Ethnic group
Market Economy
27. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Primary Economic Activities
Monsoon
Minority
Russification
28. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Push Factors
Nationality
Hurricane
European Union (EU)
29. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Symbiotic
Natural Disaster
Oral Tradition
Nationality
30. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
GPS
Gross Domestic Product
Ethnic group
Distribution
31. Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Communism
United Nations (UN)
Utilization
Newly Industrialized Country
32. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Welfare
Leeward
Plate Tectonics
Water Cycle
33. Goods produced for sale
Manufacturing
Aborigine
Commodity
Tornado
34. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Demographic Indicators
Culture
Regulations
Pandemic
35. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Internet
Physical Geography
Service Industries
Demography
36. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Region
Relative Location
El Nino
Functional Region
37. A business that employs workers in their homes
Greenhouse Effect
Infant Mortality Rate
Desalinization
Cottage Industry
38. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Equator
Subsidized
Terrorism
Domestic
39. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pandemic
Infrastructure
Biosphere
40. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population Pyramid
Oligarchy
Traditional Economy
Nationalism
41. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Deficit
Outsourcing
Doldrums
Gross Domestic Product
42. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Demographic Indicators
Command Economy
Cultural Divergence
Free Enterprise Economic System
43. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Hydrosphere
Cultural Convergence
Pull Factors
44. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
United Nations (UN)
Aborigine
Isthmus
Central American Free Trade Agreement
45. The part of the Earth where life exists
Clan
Renewable Resources
Biosphere
Subsidized
46. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
More Developed Country
Physical Geography
Equator
Commercial Industry
47. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Global Trade Patterns
Pandemic
Nationality
Fold
48. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Multiculturalism
Regulations
Pull Factors
Judaism
49. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Standard of living
Eutrophication
Connectivity
Polytheism
50. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Subsidized
Desalinization
International
Socialism