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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Tsunami
Longitude
Latitude
Isthmus
2. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Nationalism
Ocean Currents
Proximity
World Trade
3. A group or chain of islands
Eutrophication
Archipelago
Mantle
Eutrophication
4. The movement of people into one country from another
Commodity
North American Free Trade Agreement
Earthquakes
Immigration
5. Native to a place
Human Geography
Indigenous
Immigration
International
6. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Cohesiveness
Relative Location
Fault
Desalinization
7. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
United Nations (UN)
Collective Farm
Climate
Political Boundaries
8. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Functional Region
Precipitation
Nationalism
Customs
9. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Vegetation
Rain Shadow Effect
Political Boundaries
Westernization
10. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Capital
Ocean Currents
Continental Drift
Commercial Agriculture
11. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Socialism
Columbian Exchange
E-commerce
Command Economy
12. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Hydrosphere
Tsunami
Population Distribution
Demographic Indicators
13. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Greenhouse Effect
Symbiotic
Renewable Resources
Innovation
14. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Sustainable Development
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Genocide
Sovereignty
15. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Ecosystem
Literacy Rate
Population Density
Desalinization
16. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Geopolitical
Cultural Hearth
Region
Industrialization
17. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Commercial Agriculture
Precipitation
Hydrosphere
Patterns of Settlement
18. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Socioeconomic Status
Globalization
Plate Tectonics
Culture
19. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Hemisphere
Command Economy
Surplus
Dictatorship
20. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
International
Ideology
Republic
21. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Bubonic Plague
Precipitation
Eutrophication
22. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Industrialization
Archipelago
Glacier
Russification
23. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Internet
Commercial Industry
Cottage Industry
Utilization
24. A religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions & beliefs & and practices based on Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha
Buddhism
Demographic Indicators
Welfare
Birthrate
25. A tax on imports or exports
Free Trade Zone
Tarifff
Tornado
Symbiotic
26. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
GIS
Glacier
Natural Disaster
Climate
27. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Hydrosphere
Functional Region
Immigration
Atheism
28. A large and densely populated urban area
Diversity
Urban Centers
Manufacturing
Precipitation
29. The height of a location above sea level
Elevation
Life Expectancy
Ecotourism
Pull Factors
30. The belief that there is no God
Hydrosphere
World Trade
Theocracy
Atheism
31. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Christianity
GPS
Life Expectancy
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
32. Powered by a steam engine
Steam Power
Population Pyramid
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Tarifff
33. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Monarchy
Islam
Climate
Atmosphere
34. The study of Earth's physical features
Tertiary Economic Activities
Bubonic Plague
Genocide
Physical Geography
35. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Westernization
Biosphere
United Nations (UN)
Less Developed Country
36. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Cultural Divergence
Hurricane
Homogenous
Outsourcing
37. A large and densely populated urban area
Human Geography
Glacier
Urban Centers
Cultural Divergence
38. Level of income and education
Socioeconomic Status
Manufacturing
Subsidized
Archipelago
39. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Megalopolis
Westernization
Phenomenon
Literacy Rate
40. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Steam Power
Drought
Vertical Climate Zones
Ethnic Cleansing
41. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Genocide
Republic
Infant Mortality Rate
International
42. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
World Trade Organization
Tsunami
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Absolute Location
43. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Aerial Photographs
Terracing
Equator
Patriotism
44. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Global Trade Patterns
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hurricane
Ecosystem
45. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Theocracy
Longitude
Subcontinent
Socialism
46. 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
Patriotism
Polytheism
Biome
Judaism
47. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Atmosphere
Cultural Convergence
Renewable Resources
Grid System
48. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Free Enterprise Economic System
Russification
Topography
Theocracy
49. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Glacier
Democracy
Cottage Industry
Nationalism
50. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Republic
Political Boundaries
Mantle
Absolute Location