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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Patriotism
Subsistence Farming
Distribution
Weather
2. A ban on trade
Oligarchy
Windward
Embargo
Immigration
3. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Cultural Convergence
GPS
Service Industries
Standard of living
4. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Unitary System
Industrialization
Continent
Symbiotic
5. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cultural Divergence
Weather
GIS
Totalitarian System
6. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Subcontinent
Theocracy
Push Factors
Atmosphere
7. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Islam
Theocracy
Tarifff
Utilization
8. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Federal System
Culture
Urbanization
Functional Region
9. 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
Immigration
Indigenous
Ideology
Proximity
10. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Political Boundaries
Climate
Population Distribution
Human Development Index
11. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Meridian
Quaternary Economic Activities
Customs
Sikhism
12. The force of bringing group members closer together
Tertiary Economic Activities
Monotheism
Cohesiveness
Minority
13. (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
Internet
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Federal System
Phenomenon
14. The sector of the economy that consists intellectual activities such as government & culture & libraries & scientific research & education
Leeward
Scarcity
Fault
Quaternary Economic Activities
15. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Culture
Manufacturing
Ecotourism
Service Industries
16. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Acid Rain
Plate Tectonics
Doldrums
Tsunami
17. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Newly Industrialized Country
Indigenous
Human Geography
Clan
18. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Monarchy
Literacy Rate
Ecotourism
Mantle
19. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Oligarchy
Windward
United Nations (UN)
Ecosystem
20. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Latitude
Ocean Currents
Geopolitical
Monarchy
21. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Hurricane
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Autocracy
El Nino
22. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Population Distribution
Suburb
Renewable Resources
Industrialization
23. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Capitalism
Population Pyramid
Longitude
Vegetation
24. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Subcontinent
Socioeconomic Status
Plate Tectonics
Lithosphere
25. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
Christianity
Oral Tradition
Death Rate
26. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Doldrums
Dynasty
Grid System
Standard of living
27. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Refugee
Death Rate
Federal System
28. Selling and buying on the internet
Aborigine
E-commerce
Monotheism
Genocide
29. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Connectivity
Public Policies
Monsoon
Westernization
30. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Internet
Hydrosphere
Nonrenewable Resources
Infant Mortality Rate
31. The height of a location above sea level
Cultural Convergence
Elevation
Russification
Collective Farm
32. Level of income and education
Socioeconomic Status
Functional Region
Free Trade Zone
Prime Meridian
33. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Megalopolis
Theocracy
Death Rate
Terrorism
34. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Socioeconomic Status
Internet
Diversity
Subsidized
35. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Autocracy
Nationality
Indigenous
Greenhouse Effect
36. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Genocide
Scarcity
Patterns of Settlement
37. 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
Steam Power
Sikhism
African Union (AU)
Bubonic Plague
38. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Nuclear
Acid Rain
Island
Human Geography
39. 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
Formal Region
Life Expectancy
Urbanization
40. Migration FROM a location
Eutrophication
Emigration
Hydrosphere
Longitude
41. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Socioeconomic Status
World Trade Organization
Industrialization
42. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Natural Disaster
Columbian Exchange
Human Geography
Scarcity
43. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Cultural Hearth
Biome
Renewable Resources
Plate Tectonics
44. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Steam Power
Glacier
Fold
Islam
45. A large and densely populated urban area
Urban Centers
Plate Tectonics
Leeward
Terrorism
46. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Commercial Industry
Judaism
Terrorism
Scarcity
47. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Cohesiveness
Civil War
Isthmus
Manufacturing
48. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Theocracy
Fold
Push Factors
El Nino
49. Love for or devotion to one's country
Patriotism
GIS
Weather
Commodity
50. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Continental Drift
Christianity
Subsidized
Emigration