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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Selling and buying on the internet
E-commerce
Scarcity
Fault
Nuclear
2. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Terrorism
Russification
Commodity
3. Self-rule
Tertiary Economic Activities
Functional Region
Sovereignty
Minority
4. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Civil War
Cultural Convergence
Welfare
Symbiotic
5. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Ocean Currents
Desalinization
Monsoon
Primary Economic Activities
6. Something or a company that involves more than one country
Clan
Doldrums
Leeward
International
7. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Subsistence Farming
Fold
Sikhism
Tertiary Economic Activities
8. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Innovation
Domestic
Buddhism
Functional Region
9. A socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world whose economies have not yet reached First World status but have outpaced their developing counterparts
Functional Region
Newly Industrialized Country
Telecommunications
Surplus
10. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Infant Mortality Rate
Pull Factors
Russification
Tsunami
11. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Doldrums
Westernization
Aerial Photographs
Field Interviews
12. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Regulations
Dynasty
Manufacturing
Clan
13. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Leeward
Literacy Rate
Minority
Aborigine
14. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Urban Centers
Latitude
Meridian
Infant Mortality Rate
15. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Ocean Currents
Climate
Continent
Phenomenon
16. A ban on trade
Free Trade Zone
Voting Patterns
Minority
Embargo
17. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Capital
Patriotism
Flood
Democracy
18. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Nonrenewable Resources
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Internet
GPS
19. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Human Development Index
Subsistence Farming
Collective Farm
Population Pyramid
20. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Drought
Westernization
Embargo
Formal Region
21. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Symbiotic
Plate Tectonics
Birthrate
Nationalism
22. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Multiculturalism
Cultural Divergence
Atheism
Suburb
23. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Global Trade Patterns
Ecosystem
Cottage Industry
Gross Domestic Product
24. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
GPS
Traditional Economy
Patriotism
El Nino
25. Love for or devotion to one's country
Industrialization
Patriotism
Precipitation
Relative Location
26. The movement of people into one country from another
Immigration
Population Density
Sustainable Development
Infrastructure
27. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Subcontinent
Domestic
Region
Proximity
28. The force of bringing group members closer together
Tertiary Economic Activities
Cohesiveness
Latitude
Russification
29. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Republic
Hydrosphere
Sovereignty
Continental Drift
30. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Embargo
Region
Clan
Sustainable Development
31. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Manufacturing
Continent
Connectivity
World Trade
32. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Industrialization
Elevation
Isthmus
Weather
33. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Buddhism
Hydrosphere
Fold
Totalitarian System
34. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Relative Location
Columbian Exchange
Flood
Public Policies
35. System of government in which a small group holds power
Oligarchy
Region
Continental Drift
Terracing
36. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Regulations
Meridian
Gross Domestic Product
Hurricane
37. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Distribution
Cottage Industry
Indigenous
Unitary System
38. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Innovation
Gross Domestic Product
Acid Rain
Dictatorship
39. A place united by a specific characteristics
Socialism
Region
Nationalism
Ocean Currents
40. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Absolute Location
Terrorism
Collective Farm
Perceptual Region
41. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Nationalism
Lithosphere
Proximity
Birthrate
42. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
GPS
Push Factors
Death Rate
Patriotism
43. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Oral Tradition
Aerial Photographs
Customs
44. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Symbiotic
Island
Continental Drift
Emigration
45. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Vertical Climate Zones
Atmosphere
Customs
Central American Free Trade Agreement
46. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Hemisphere
Standard of living
Socioeconomic Status
Multiculturalism
47. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Ideology
Renewable Resources
Pandemic
E-commerce
48. A large and densely populated urban area
Urban Centers
Homogenous
Fault
Ecotourism
49. Self-rule
Greenhouse Effect
Culture
Sovereignty
Socialism
50. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Natural Disaster
Erosion
Columbian Exchange
Water Cycle