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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Aerial Photographs
Customs
Precipitation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Birthrate
Nationality
World Trade Organization
Quaternary Economic Activities
3. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Subcontinent
Terracing
Meridian
Diversity
4. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Less Developed Country
Physical Geography
Rain Shadow Effect
5. Belief in multiple Gods
World Trade Organization
Erosion
Steam Power
Polytheism
6. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Human Geography
Weather
Free Trade Zone
Rain Shadow Effect
7. A tax on imports or exports
Death Rate
Columbian Exchange
Tarifff
Connectivity
8. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Traditional Economy
Patriotism
Minority
Standard of living
9. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Evaporation
Less Developed Country
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
10. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Totalitarian System
African Union (AU)
Literacy Rate
United Nations (UN)
11. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Manufacturing
Cultural Divergence
Literacy Rate
Absolute Location
12. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Longitude
Erosion
Dictatorship
Ecotourism
13. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Island
Gross Domestic Product
Precipitation
Human Development Index
14. Location in relation to other places
Spatial Diffusion
Commodity
International
Relative Location
15. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Deficit
Vegetation
Telecommunications
Cohesiveness
16. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Mantle
Domestic
Service Industries
Industrialization
17. The part of the Earth where life exists
Bubonic Plague
Terracing
Welfare
Biosphere
18. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Topography
Global Trade Patterns
Infant Mortality Rate
Biome
19. 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
Plate Tectonics
Manufacturing
Judaism
United Nations (UN)
20. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Domestic
Westernization
Birthrate
Russification
21. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Nuclear
Hinduism
Biome
Continent
22. An area of land surrounded by water
Scarcity
Island
Geopolitical
Subcontinent
23. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Drought
Biosphere
Biome
Judaism
24. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Topography
Deficit
El Nino
World Trade Organization
25. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Aerial Photographs
Fold
Capital
Rain Shadow Effect
26. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Distribution
Flood
Urbanization
Hydrosphere
27. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
North American Free Trade Agreement
Embargo
Customs
Nationality
28. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Rain Shadow Effect
Cultural Convergence
European Union (EU)
Regulations
29. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Distribution
Absolute Location
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Socialism
30. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Subsidized
Death Rate
Pandemic
Earthquakes
31. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Gross Domestic Product
Archipelago
International
Autocracy
32. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Continent
Symbiotic
Relative Location
Field Interviews
33. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Buddhism
Market Economy
Welfare
Grid System
34. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Telecommunications
Connectivity
Subcontinent
Terrorism
35. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Christianity
Innovation
Subsistence Farming
36. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Rain Shadow Effect
Totalitarian System
Immigration
Dynasty
37. 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
North American Free Trade Agreement
El Nino
Ideology
Patterns of Settlement
38. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Utilization
Nationality
Clan
Biosphere
39. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
El Nino
Nonrenewable Resources
Longitude
Demographic Indicators
40. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Tarifff
Indigenous
Buddhism
Infant Mortality Rate
41. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Dynasty
Longitude
Command Economy
Domestic
42. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Atmosphere
Connectivity
Ocean Currents
Outsourcing
43. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
More Developed Country
Population Density
Internet
Grid System
44. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Continental Drift
Atheism
Monotheism
Atheism
45. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Perceptual Region
Field Interviews
Prime Meridian
Aerial Photographs
46. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Totalitarian System
Clan
Urbanization
Christianity
47. The movement of people into one country from another
Dynasty
Immigration
Socioeconomic Status
Manufacturing
48. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Hurricane
Drought
Commercial Industry
Manufacturing
49. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Climate
Doldrums
Aborigine
Greenhouse Effect
50. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Phenomenon
Ecosystem
Grid System
Theocracy