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World Geography
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1. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Demography
Collective Farm
Deficit
Surplus
2. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Tarifff
Monsoon
Culture
Geopolitical
3. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Population Density
Republic
Pull Factors
Sikhism
4. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Ethnic group
Death Rate
Minority
Field Interviews
5. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Ethnic group
Federal System
Ideology
Diversity
6. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Sikhism
Vertical Climate Zones
Ocean Currents
El Nino
7. The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups
Precipitation
Ethnic Cleansing
Dynasty
Internet
8. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Global Trade Patterns
Oligarchy
United Nations (UN)
Free Enterprise Economic System
9. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Commercial Industry
Oligarchy
Civil War
Less Developed Country
10. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Oligarchy
Hemisphere
Service Industries
Subsistence Farming
11. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Global Warming
Columbian Exchange
Continental Drift
Market Economy
12. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
African Union (AU)
Aborigine
Functional Region
Death Rate
13. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Precipitation
Absolute Location
Traditional Economy
Manufacturing
14. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Symbiotic
Capitalism
Dictatorship
15. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Longitude
Monarchy
El Nino
Water Cycle
16. The height of a location above sea level
Capitalism
Elevation
Functional Region
Push Factors
17. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Communism
Customs
Latitude
Periphaler
18. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Connectivity
United Nations (UN)
More Developed Country
Globalization
19. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Ocean Currents
Continent
Communism
Erosion
20. An area of a country where some normal trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in hopes of attracting new business
Doldrums
Free Trade Zone
Civil War
World Trade
21. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Buddhism
Island
Fold
Water Cycle
22. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Columbian Exchange
Minority
GIS
Weather
23. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Earthquakes
Formal Region
Diversity
Biome
24. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Perceptual Region
Industrialization
Population Pyramid
Secondary Economic Activities
25. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Political Boundaries
Scarcity
Newly Industrialized Country
26. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Totalitarian System
Doldrums
Sustainable Development
Central American Free Trade Agreement
27. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Birthrate
Longitude
Leeward
Glacier
28. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Command Economy
Hydrosphere
E-commerce
Perceptual Region
29. Goods produced for sale
Commodity
Earthquakes
Birthrate
Geopolitical
30. System of government in which a small group holds power
International
Oligarchy
Glacier
Urbanization
31. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
United Nations (UN)
Newly Industrialized Country
Civil War
Biome
32. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Columbian Exchange
Theocracy
Oligarchy
Connectivity
33. Something or a company that involves more than one country
International
Subcontinent
E-commerce
Human Geography
34. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Urban Centers
Oligarchy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Patterns of Settlement
35. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Market Economy
World Trade
Literacy Rate
Tertiary Economic Activities
36. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Distribution
Life Expectancy
Absolute Location
Capitalism
37. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
World Trade Organization
Hydrosphere
Judaism
38. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Natural Disaster
Ecosystem
Windward
Capital
39. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Field Interviews
Subsistence Farming
Nationalism
Life Expectancy
40. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Cottage Industry
Manufacturing
Capitalism
41. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Republic
Windward
Climate
Functional Region
42. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Field Interviews
Dictatorship
Primary Economic Activities
Acid Rain
43. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Hinduism
Water Cycle
Spatial Diffusion
Precipitation
44. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Immigration
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hinduism
Birthrate
45. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Totalitarian System
Ocean Currents
Free Trade Zone
Atheism
46. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Welfare
Tsunami
Telecommunications
Bubonic Plague
47. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Perceptual Region
Urban Centers
Formal Region
Human Development Index
48. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Gross Domestic Product
Ecosystem
Steam Power
Primary Economic Activities
49. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Hydrosphere
Steam Power
Subsistence Farming
Weather
50. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Greenhouse Effect
More Developed Country
Weather