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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Republic
Quaternary Economic Activities
Columbian Exchange
Life Expectancy
2. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Less Developed Country
Biome
Free Enterprise Economic System
Terracing
3. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Glacier
Urban Centers
Free Trade Zone
Christianity
4. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Theocracy
Rain Shadow Effect
Subcontinent
Nonrenewable Resources
5. Goods produced for sale
Atmosphere
Commodity
Nationality
Monarchy
6. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Connectivity
Continental Drift
Communism
Clan
7. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Fault
Democracy
Topography
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
8. The statistical characteristics of a population
Demographic Indicators
Telecommunications
Sikhism
E-commerce
9. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
GIS
Autocracy
Multiculturalism
Domestic
10. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Surplus
Industrialization
Regulations
Field Interviews
11. A group or chain of islands
Archipelago
Leeward
Deficit
Biome
12. A ban on trade
Embargo
Ideology
Ideology
Nonrenewable Resources
13. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Voting Patterns
Free Trade Zone
Tsunami
More Developed Country
14. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Steam Power
Continent
Commercial Agriculture
Republic
15. Outlying communities around a city
Suburb
Customs
Nationality
Archipelago
16. Belief in multiple Gods
Rain Shadow Effect
Symbiotic
Polytheism
Demographic Indicators
17. Belief in one God
Monotheism
Proximity
Hydrosphere
Push Factors
18. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Infant Mortality Rate
Political Boundaries
Theocracy
Terrorism
19. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Capital
Greenhouse Effect
Ideology
Quaternary Economic Activities
20. An area of land surrounded by water
E-commerce
Cultural Divergence
Demography
Island
21. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Secondary Economic Activities
North American Free Trade Agreement
Standard of living
Subsidized
22. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Spatial Diffusion
Indigenous
Prime Meridian
23. 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
Regulations
World Trade
Free Trade Zone
Free Enterprise Economic System
24. Migration FROM a location
Precipitation
Erosion
Emigration
Patterns of Settlement
25. Something or a company that involves more than one country
Surplus
Commodity
Bubonic Plague
International
26. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Monsoon
Russification
Renewable Resources
Subsidized
27. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Elevation
Vertical Climate Zones
Innovation
Civil War
28. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
European Union (EU)
Nationalism
Nuclear
Sovereignty
29. The part of the Earth where life exists
Russification
Ethnic group
Biosphere
Cultural Hearth
30. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Aborigine
Tornado
Public Policies
Cultural Convergence
31. A large and densely populated urban area
Traditional Economy
Urban Centers
Democracy
Drought
32. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Cultural Hearth
Eutrophication
Fault
Central American Free Trade Agreement
33. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Patriotism
Embargo
Minority
Oral Tradition
34. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Longitude
Voting Patterns
Free Trade Zone
Natural Disaster
35. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Deficit
Capitalism
Demography
Surplus
36. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Urbanization
Federal System
Population Distribution
Bubonic Plague
37. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Terrorism
Sikhism
E-commerce
Innovation
38. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Grid System
Functional Region
Renewable Resources
39. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Subsidized
Gross Domestic Product
Customs
United Nations (UN)
40. (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
Newly Industrialized Country
Sustainable Development
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hydrosphere
41. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
El Nino
Windward
Public Policies
World Trade
42. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Deficit
Welfare
North American Free Trade Agreement
Command Economy
43. An area's original inhabitants
Distribution
Aborigine
Symbiotic
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
44. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Climate
Democracy
Judaism
Global Trade Patterns
45. Level of income and education
Periphaler
Socioeconomic Status
Buddhism
Columbian Exchange
46. 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
Nonrenewable Resources
Globalization
Tornado
Nationalism
47. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Service Industries
Mantle
Natural Disaster
Free Enterprise Economic System
48. A tax on imports or exports
Totalitarian System
Tarifff
Desalinization
Infrastructure
49. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Windward
Monotheism
Voting Patterns
Spatial Diffusion
50. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Civil War
Longitude
Precipitation
Water Cycle