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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Death Rate
Bubonic Plague
Acid Rain
Windward
2. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Federal System
Welfare
Russification
Leeward
3. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Subsidized
Cultural Convergence
Surplus
Tsunami
4. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
European Union (EU)
Nationality
Island
E-commerce
5. Belief in multiple Gods
Polytheism
Biome
Functional Region
Innovation
6. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Customs
Monarchy
Civil War
Ocean Currents
7. Belief in one God
Free Enterprise Economic System
Water Cycle
Republic
Monotheism
8. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Terracing
Industrialization
Fold
Autocracy
9. Outlying communities around a city
Ethnic Cleansing
Refugee
Political Boundaries
Suburb
10. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Latitude
Emigration
Infant Mortality Rate
Communism
11. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Tarifff
Internet
Globalization
Leeward
12. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Monsoon
United Nations (UN)
Political Boundaries
Phenomenon
13. 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
African Union (AU)
Secondary Economic Activities
Primary Economic Activities
Periphaler
14. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Pandemic
Cultural Hearth
Scarcity
Megalopolis
15. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Hinduism
Connectivity
Continent
Russification
16. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Evaporation
Dynasty
Latitude
Oligarchy
17. A large and densely populated urban area
Command Economy
Lithosphere
Urban Centers
Service Industries
18. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Homogenous
Functional Region
Political Boundaries
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
19. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Isthmus
Christianity
European Union (EU)
Islam
20. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Death Rate
Fold
Emigration
Isthmus
21. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
Connectivity
Distribution
Oligarchy
22. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Physical Geography
Proximity
Elevation
Birthrate
23. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
International
Population Density
Aerial Photographs
Population Distribution
24. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Formal Region
Prime Meridian
Capitalism
Public Policies
25. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Dictatorship
Indigenous
Quaternary Economic Activities
Service Industries
26. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
GPS
Monsoon
Autocracy
Evaporation
27. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Human Geography
Proximity
Refugee
28. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Gross Domestic Product
Birthrate
Biome
Prime Meridian
29. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Subsistence Farming
Less Developed Country
Vertical Climate Zones
Sikhism
30. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
GIS
World Trade
Biosphere
Human Development Index
31. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Patterns of Settlement
Spatial Diffusion
Secondary Economic Activities
Telecommunications
32. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Population Density
Commercial Agriculture
Globalization
Gross Domestic Product
33. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Global Trade Patterns
Ocean Currents
Steam Power
Republic
34. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Meridian
Formal Region
Hydrosphere
Suburb
35. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Erosion
Literacy Rate
Grid System
Push Factors
36. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Less Developed Country
Geopolitical
Mantle
Capital
37. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Patterns of Settlement
Megalopolis
Literacy Rate
Communism
38. Level of income and education
Surplus
World Trade
Socioeconomic Status
Atheism
39. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Infant Mortality Rate
Latitude
Embargo
Nuclear
40. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Subcontinent
Theocracy
Renewable Resources
El Nino
41. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Ecotourism
Capital
Socialism
Less Developed Country
42. A group or chain of islands
Indigenous
Archipelago
Free Trade Zone
Industrialization
43. System of government in which a small group holds power
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Global Warming
Globalization
Oligarchy
44. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Homogenous
Capital
Grid System
Elevation
45. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Scarcity
Continent
Water Cycle
Global Trade Patterns
46. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
Pandemic
Hurricane
United Nations (UN)
Columbian Exchange
47. A group or chain of islands
Voting Patterns
Archipelago
Judaism
Diversity
48. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Homogenous
Field Interviews
Erosion
Ideology
49. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Republic
Democracy
Hinduism
Drought
50. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Russification
Secondary Economic Activities
Latitude
Glacier