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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Genocide
Multiculturalism
Refugee
Tsunami
2. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Patterns of Settlement
Homogenous
World Trade
Urban Centers
3. One who flees his or her home for safety
Political Boundaries
Regulations
Scarcity
Refugee
4. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
GIS
Voting Patterns
Welfare
Internet
5. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Free Enterprise Economic System
Internet
Socioeconomic Status
Manufacturing
6. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Internet
Life Expectancy
Natural Disaster
Continent
7. Goods produced for sale
Steam Power
Socialism
Atmosphere
Commodity
8. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Nationalism
Monarchy
Global Trade Patterns
Desalinization
9. Use: the act of using
Utilization
Service Industries
Indigenous
Field Interviews
10. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Climate
Steam Power
Monsoon
Diversity
11. The movement of people into one country from another
Spatial Diffusion
Capital
Immigration
Republic
12. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Desalinization
Drought
European Union (EU)
Islam
13. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population Pyramid
Biosphere
Grid System
Urbanization
14. Self-rule
Clan
Field Interviews
Monotheism
Sovereignty
15. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Doldrums
Sikhism
Clan
Commercial Industry
16. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
International
Formal Region
Scarcity
Command Economy
17. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Christianity
More Developed Country
Voting Patterns
Human Development Index
18. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Absolute Location
Literacy Rate
Collective Farm
Unitary System
19. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Drought
Hydrosphere
Aerial Photographs
Tertiary Economic Activities
20. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Standard of living
Primary Economic Activities
Functional Region
Prime Meridian
21. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Cohesiveness
Vertical Climate Zones
Telecommunications
Formal Region
22. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Physical Geography
Scarcity
Clan
Biome
23. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Ocean Currents
Sustainable Development
World Trade Organization
Elevation
24. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Tertiary Economic Activities
Literacy Rate
Desalinization
Formal Region
25. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Megalopolis
Patterns of Settlement
Literacy Rate
Earthquakes
26. A business that employs workers in their homes
Urban Centers
Steam Power
Glacier
Cottage Industry
27. Outlying communities around a city
Customs
Field Interviews
Suburb
Cultural Convergence
28. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Eutrophication
Totalitarian System
Equator
Human Development Index
29. A tax on imports or exports
Oral Tradition
Drought
Theocracy
Tarifff
30. A group or chain of islands
Perceptual Region
Democracy
Greenhouse Effect
Archipelago
31. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Physical Geography
Command Economy
Ocean Currents
Terrorism
32. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Plate Tectonics
Nonrenewable Resources
Civil War
Death Rate
33. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Absolute Location
Region
Urbanization
Traditional Economy
34. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Islam
Scarcity
Tsunami
Sustainable Development
35. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Longitude
Hemisphere
Collective Farm
Human Geography
36. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Indigenous
Gross Domestic Product
Region
Bubonic Plague
37. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Terrorism
Ecosystem
Voting Patterns
Cultural Convergence
38. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Primary Economic Activities
Surplus
Less Developed Country
Literacy Rate
39. Self-rule
Sovereignty
Deficit
Public Policies
Formal Region
40. Love for or devotion to one's country
Deficit
Biosphere
Infant Mortality Rate
Patriotism
41. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Internet
Ocean Currents
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Global Warming
42. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Elevation
Atmosphere
Nuclear
Standard of living
43. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Less Developed Country
Latitude
Autocracy
Greenhouse Effect
44. System of government in which a small group holds power
Atmosphere
Culture
Hinduism
Oligarchy
45. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Autocracy
Gross Domestic Product
GPS
Glacier
46. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Symbiotic
Lithosphere
Gross Domestic Product
GIS
47. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Ethnic group
Monsoon
Clan
Central American Free Trade Agreement
48. The effect of a natural hazard like a flood & tornado & hurricane & volcanic eruption earthquake & landslide & or tsunami which leads to financial & environmental & or human losses
Multiculturalism
Field Interviews
Natural Disaster
Death Rate
49. One who flees his or her home for safety
Refugee
Topography
Tarifff
Biome
50. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Socialism
Sustainable Development
Functional Region
Refugee