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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Infrastructure
Public Policies
Regulations
Leeward
2. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Aerial Photographs
Cultural Convergence
Diversity
International
3. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
More Developed Country
Hurricane
Patterns of Settlement
Genocide
4. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Autocracy
Public Policies
Global Trade Patterns
Rain Shadow Effect
5. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Atheism
Desalinization
Traditional Economy
Buddhism
6. 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
Newly Industrialized Country
Culture
Tarifff
Connectivity
7. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Atmosphere
Meridian
Demographic Indicators
Ocean Currents
8. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Outsourcing
Pull Factors
Urban Centers
Socialism
9. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Less Developed Country
Drought
Patterns of Settlement
Autocracy
10. System of government in which a small group holds power
Oligarchy
Weather
Globalization
Unitary System
11. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Utilization
Climate
Atmosphere
Immigration
12. (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
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Diversity
Region
More Developed Country
13. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Suburb
Flood
Voting Patterns
Human Geography
14. Location in relation to other places
Vegetation
Welfare
Relative Location
GIS
15. A union consisting of 53 African States whose objectives are to: Accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent - Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples - Achieve p
Innovation
Symbiotic
Emigration
African Union (AU)
16. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
North American Free Trade Agreement
Demography
Flood
Proximity
17. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Traditional Economy
Demography
Clan
World Trade Organization
18. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Grid System
Fold
Weather
Urbanization
19. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Perceptual Region
Human Development Index
Formal Region
Deficit
20. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Continental Drift
Doldrums
Greenhouse Effect
Minority
21. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Gross Domestic Product
Hurricane
Water Cycle
Hinduism
22. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Absolute Location
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Public Policies
Nationality
23. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Homogenous
Tarifff
Meridian
Subsistence Farming
24. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Greenhouse Effect
Island
Dictatorship
Welfare
25. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Climate
More Developed Country
Tsunami
Refugee
26. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Immigration
Global Trade Patterns
Dynasty
Evaporation
27. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Water Cycle
Industrialization
Eutrophication
Customs
28. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Lithosphere
More Developed Country
Subsidized
Weather
29. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Diversity
Formal Region
Relative Location
Urban Centers
30. The height of a location above sea level
Dictatorship
Suburb
Elevation
Pull Factors
31. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Formal Region
Innovation
Atheism
Voting Patterns
32. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Subsistence Farming
Telecommunications
Aborigine
Meridian
33. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Dynasty
Leeward
Columbian Exchange
Capitalism
34. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Democracy
Republic
Biosphere
Symbiotic
35. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
Embargo
Civil War
Cottage Industry
Patterns of Settlement
36. The force of bringing group members closer together
Cultural Hearth
Cohesiveness
Federal System
Atmosphere
37. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Westernization
Tsunami
Leeward
Subcontinent
38. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Clan
Columbian Exchange
GIS
Refugee
39. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Subsistence Farming
Globalization
World Trade
Oral Tradition
40. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Pull Factors
Prime Meridian
Telecommunications
Utilization
41. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Totalitarian System
Voting Patterns
Fold
Internet
42. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Grid System
Free Trade Zone
Birthrate
Federal System
43. 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
International
Secondary Economic Activities
Ideology
Human Geography
44. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Customs
El Nino
Collective Farm
Service Industries
45. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Oral Tradition
Internet
Equator
Formal Region
46. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Tornado
Russification
Secondary Economic Activities
Quaternary Economic Activities
47. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Innovation
Patterns of Settlement
Cottage Industry
Nationalism
48. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Judaism
Prime Meridian
Culture
Service Industries
49. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Autocracy
Refugee
Command Economy
Infant Mortality Rate
50. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Polytheism
El Nino
Islam