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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
GPS
North American Free Trade Agreement
Nationality
Hemisphere
2. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Globalization
Less Developed Country
Public Policies
Sikhism
3. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Demographic Indicators
Evaporation
Latitude
Nonrenewable Resources
4. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Standard of living
Market Economy
Urbanization
5. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Voting Patterns
Precipitation
Lithosphere
Westernization
6. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Human Development Index
Nationalism
Capitalism
Lithosphere
7. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Monsoon
Birthrate
Tarifff
Welfare
8. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Climate
Prime Meridian
Monsoon
Infrastructure
9. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Theocracy
Nonrenewable Resources
Dictatorship
Minority
10. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Dynasty
Columbian Exchange
Death Rate
Spatial Diffusion
11. A localized & violently destructive windstorm occurring over land & and characterized by a long & funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris
Biosphere
Tornado
Indigenous
Precipitation
12. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Patriotism
Phenomenon
Oral Tradition
Periphaler
13. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Capitalism
Eutrophication
Mantle
More Developed Country
14. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Capital
Traditional Economy
Domestic
Dynasty
15. 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
Fold
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Judaism
16. Use: the act of using
Isthmus
Island
Internet
Utilization
17. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Steam Power
Commercial Agriculture
Earthquakes
Patriotism
18. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Manufacturing
Water Cycle
Terrorism
Diversity
19. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Infrastructure
Demographic Indicators
Market Economy
Command Economy
20. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Voting Patterns
Absolute Location
Deficit
Absolute Location
21. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Newly Industrialized Country
Socioeconomic Status
Biome
Commercial Agriculture
22. Selling and buying on the internet
Fault
Human Geography
Tarifff
E-commerce
23. The sector of the economy that consists intellectual activities such as government & culture & libraries & scientific research & education
Quaternary Economic Activities
Atheism
Life Expectancy
Ideology
24. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Nonrenewable Resources
Lithosphere
Vegetation
Leeward
25. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Service Industries
Desalinization
Russification
GPS
26. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Industrialization
Proximity
Flood
Minority
27. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Theocracy
Continental Drift
GIS
Atheism
28. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Leeward
Oral Tradition
Secondary Economic Activities
More Developed Country
29. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Tarifff
Global Trade Patterns
Ideology
Terracing
30. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Totalitarian System
Political Boundaries
Bubonic Plague
Renewable Resources
31. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
Christianity
Public Policies
Atmosphere
32. Outlying communities around a city
Suburb
Windward
Urban Centers
Periphaler
33. 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
Welfare
Minority
Sovereignty
Free Trade Zone
34. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
El Nino
Unitary System
Elevation
Capital
35. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Unitary System
Command Economy
European Union (EU)
36. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Refugee
Secondary Economic Activities
Outsourcing
World Trade Organization
37. Use: the act of using
Capital
Political Boundaries
Utilization
Polytheism
38. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Secondary Economic Activities
Subsidized
Autocracy
Civil War
39. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Ideology
Cultural Convergence
Atheism
Regulations
40. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Free Trade Zone
World Trade Organization
Push Factors
African Union (AU)
41. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
Emigration
Continent
Patterns of Settlement
Tornado
42. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Subsidized
Hydrosphere
Water Cycle
Region
43. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Bubonic Plague
Telecommunications
Hemisphere
Market Economy
44. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Republic
E-commerce
Surplus
Functional Region
45. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Perceptual Region
Hemisphere
Life Expectancy
Theocracy
46. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Totalitarian System
Drought
Secondary Economic Activities
Population Density
47. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Perceptual Region
Market Economy
Terracing
Urban Centers
48. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Steam Power
Multiculturalism
Tarifff
Evaporation
49. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Standard of living
Nonrenewable Resources
Scarcity
Traditional Economy
50. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Doldrums
Ecotourism
Ideology
Gross Domestic Product