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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Population Density
Emigration
Biosphere
Commercial Agriculture
2. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Deficit
Traditional Economy
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Socialism
3. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Ecosystem
Literacy Rate
Prime Meridian
Pull Factors
4. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Nationality
Homogenous
Totalitarian System
World Trade Organization
5. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Communism
Longitude
Demography
Cultural Divergence
6. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Acid Rain
Precipitation
Patriotism
Global Trade Patterns
7. The study of Earth's physical features
Refugee
Suburb
Globalization
Physical Geography
8. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Biome
Proximity
Fold
Innovation
9. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Commodity
More Developed Country
Hinduism
Acid Rain
10. The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups
Ethnic Cleansing
Manufacturing
Sustainable Development
Aborigine
11. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Embargo
Polytheism
Lithosphere
El Nino
12. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Suburb
Global Trade Patterns
Urban Centers
Continent
13. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Human Development Index
Infant Mortality Rate
Push Factors
Vegetation
14. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Aerial Photographs
Deficit
Socioeconomic Status
Windward
15. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Socialism
Cultural Divergence
Fault
Ideology
16. Level of income and education
Population Density
Hurricane
Symbiotic
Socioeconomic Status
17. A place united by a specific characteristics
More Developed Country
Doldrums
Region
Aborigine
18. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Hydrosphere
Pull Factors
Sustainable Development
Connectivity
19. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Monsoon
Proximity
Global Trade Patterns
Theocracy
20. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Internet
Demography
Voting Patterns
Formal Region
21. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Public Policies
Polytheism
Life Expectancy
Regulations
22. Migration FROM a location
Relative Location
Emigration
Communism
Isthmus
23. An area's original inhabitants
Homogenous
Commodity
Aborigine
Oral Tradition
24. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
Demography
Hurricane
Unitary System
Atmosphere
25. (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
Quaternary Economic Activities
Political Boundaries
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Commodity
26. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Newly Industrialized Country
Global Warming
Population Pyramid
Push Factors
27. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Command Economy
Market Economy
Nonrenewable Resources
Infrastructure
28. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Socioeconomic Status
Nationalism
Urbanization
Cultural Convergence
29. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Acid Rain
Absolute Location
Doldrums
Global Warming
30. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Nationalism
Regulations
Life Expectancy
Population Pyramid
31. A place united by a specific characteristics
Human Development Index
Capital
Field Interviews
Region
32. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Commercial Industry
Manufacturing
Minority
Sikhism
33. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Ideology
Evaporation
Public Policies
Birthrate
34. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Isthmus
International
Autocracy
Functional Region
35. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Monotheism
Isthmus
Republic
Terrorism
36. 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
Lithosphere
Polytheism
Region
37. Belief in one God
Geopolitical
Physical Geography
Hydrosphere
Monotheism
38. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Vertical Climate Zones
Population Pyramid
Buddhism
Greenhouse Effect
39. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Free Enterprise Economic System
Utilization
Region
Unitary System
40. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Dynasty
Prime Meridian
Traditional Economy
Latitude
41. A ban on trade
Infant Mortality Rate
Perceptual Region
Embargo
Global Warming
42. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Fold
Islam
Phenomenon
Nationalism
43. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Ecotourism
Bubonic Plague
GPS
Columbian Exchange
44. An area of land surrounded by water
Natural Disaster
Refugee
Island
Voting Patterns
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
Life Expectancy
Embargo
Longitude
Bubonic Plague
46. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Oral Tradition
Continental Drift
Evaporation
Steam Power
47. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Diversity
North American Free Trade Agreement
Lithosphere
Drought
48. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
Capital
Leeward
Capitalism
Bubonic Plague
49. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Commodity
Embargo
Windward
Public Policies
50. The force of bringing group members closer together
Geopolitical
Phenomenon
Commercial Industry
Cohesiveness