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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Sustainable Development
Socialism
Polytheism
Topography
2. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Ocean Currents
Unitary System
Fold
Monarchy
3. A tax on imports or exports
Tarifff
Phenomenon
Latitude
Service Industries
4. Location in relation to other places
International
Relative Location
Political Boundaries
Bubonic Plague
5. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Public Policies
Atmosphere
Sustainable Development
Subsistence Farming
6. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Service Industries
Symbiotic
Elevation
Culture
7. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Nationalism
Absolute Location
Erosion
Outsourcing
8. Native to a place
Multiculturalism
Scarcity
Indigenous
Surplus
9. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Megalopolis
Sustainable Development
World Trade
Pull Factors
10. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Weather
Mantle
Sikhism
Industrialization
11. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Outsourcing
Ecosystem
Cultural Hearth
Ethnic group
12. The movement of people into one country from another
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Suburb
Subcontinent
Immigration
13. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Longitude
Voting Patterns
Ecosystem
North American Free Trade Agreement
14. (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
International
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Desalinization
Death Rate
15. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Urban Centers
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sikhism
Push Factors
16. The height of a location above sea level
Ecotourism
Buddhism
Elevation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
17. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Literacy Rate
Homogenous
Polytheism
Ocean Currents
18. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Urbanization
Ecosystem
Infant Mortality Rate
Minority
19. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Megalopolis
Ocean Currents
Infrastructure
Perceptual Region
20. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Functional Region
Windward
Monotheism
Vertical Climate Zones
21. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Theocracy
Unitary System
Gross Domestic Product
Diversity
22. Belief in one God
Monotheism
Unitary System
Greenhouse Effect
Commercial Industry
23. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Gross Domestic Product
Tsunami
Absolute Location
Traditional Economy
24. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Demography
Autocracy
International
Bubonic Plague
25. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Gross Domestic Product
Political Boundaries
Terracing
Domestic
26. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Infant Mortality Rate
World Trade
Secondary Economic Activities
Internet
27. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Oral Tradition
Political Boundaries
Service Industries
Culture
28. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Subsistence Farming
Republic
Pull Factors
Sustainable Development
29. A ban on trade
Hinduism
Embargo
Monsoon
Nationalism
30. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Indigenous
Renewable Resources
Fault
Patterns of Settlement
31. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Bubonic Plague
Westernization
Hemisphere
Tsunami
32. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Totalitarian System
Secondary Economic Activities
Industrialization
Grid System
33. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Domestic
Terracing
Tertiary Economic Activities
Oral Tradition
34. Outlying communities around a city
Manufacturing
Suburb
Precipitation
Customs
35. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
Sustainable Development
Life Expectancy
Outsourcing
36. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Periphaler
Fold
Drought
Renewable Resources
37. A group or chain of islands
Archipelago
Dictatorship
Public Policies
Free Enterprise Economic System
38. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Doldrums
Longitude
Voting Patterns
Evaporation
39. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
El Nino
Scarcity
Dictatorship
Industrialization
40. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Isthmus
Life Expectancy
Christianity
41. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Global Trade Patterns
Socialism
Demography
Human Geography
42. 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
Spatial Diffusion
Judaism
Scarcity
Clan
43. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Homogenous
Urbanization
Bubonic Plague
Mantle
44. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Vegetation
Hinduism
Deficit
Proximity
45. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Proximity
Nationalism
Democracy
Global Trade Patterns
46. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Fault
Periphaler
Rain Shadow Effect
Collective Farm
47. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Hydrosphere
Bubonic Plague
Free Enterprise Economic System
Free Trade Zone
48. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Political Boundaries
Acid Rain
GIS
Greenhouse Effect
49. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Birthrate
Secondary Economic Activities
Genocide
Field Interviews
50. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Perceptual Region
Tarifff
Equator
Rain Shadow Effect