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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The belief that there is no God
Perceptual Region
Population Pyramid
Atheism
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Voting Patterns
Functional Region
Grid System
Drought
3. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Innovation
Life Expectancy
Homogenous
Judaism
4. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
Welfare
Leeward
Geopolitical
5. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Westernization
Clan
Mantle
Christianity
6. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Vegetation
Fold
Acid Rain
Bubonic Plague
7. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Windward
Flood
Tsunami
Tertiary Economic Activities
8. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Westernization
Christianity
Outsourcing
European Union (EU)
9. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Nationalism
Grid System
Multiculturalism
Socioeconomic Status
10. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Gross Domestic Product
Civil War
Manufacturing
Desalinization
11. An area of land surrounded by water
Island
World Trade Organization
Latitude
El Nino
12. Location in relation to other places
Relative Location
Latitude
Symbiotic
Multiculturalism
13. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Tsunami
Democracy
Judaism
Monsoon
14. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
International
Push Factors
Population Distribution
Biome
15. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Clan
Deficit
GIS
Island
16. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Pandemic
Monarchy
Ocean Currents
Public Policies
17. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Water Cycle
Prime Meridian
Command Economy
Atmosphere
18. Belief in multiple Gods
Bubonic Plague
Polytheism
Sovereignty
Unitary System
19. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Symbiotic
Desalinization
Vertical Climate Zones
Evaporation
20. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
World Trade Organization
Symbiotic
Urban Centers
Scarcity
21. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Hemisphere
Dynasty
Mantle
Embargo
22. Belief in one God
Urban Centers
Desalinization
Oligarchy
Monotheism
23. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
E-commerce
Autocracy
Aerial Photographs
24. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Lithosphere
Evaporation
Aborigine
Communism
25. Location in relation to other places
Cultural Divergence
Relative Location
Rain Shadow Effect
United Nations (UN)
26. One who flees his or her home for safety
Columbian Exchange
Ethnic group
Fault
Refugee
27. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
International
Autocracy
Quaternary Economic Activities
Atheism
28. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
E-commerce
Nonrenewable Resources
Collective Farm
Gross Domestic Product
29. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Surplus
Subcontinent
Unitary System
Evaporation
30. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Oligarchy
Nonrenewable Resources
Globalization
Diversity
31. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Westernization
Russification
Ecosystem
Monarchy
32. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Suburb
Judaism
African Union (AU)
Death Rate
33. (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
Ocean Currents
Russification
Commercial Industry
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
34. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Civil War
Westernization
Ideology
Nationalism
35. Goods produced for sale
Commodity
Atmosphere
Ocean Currents
Urban Centers
36. The statistical characteristics of a population
African Union (AU)
United Nations (UN)
Capital
Demographic Indicators
37. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
E-commerce
Earthquakes
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
African Union (AU)
38. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Pull Factors
Manufacturing
Cultural Divergence
Domestic
39. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Utilization
Industrialization
Spatial Diffusion
Command Economy
40. Self-rule
Periphaler
Totalitarian System
Tarifff
Sovereignty
41. The force of bringing group members closer together
Longitude
Less Developed Country
Pandemic
Cohesiveness
42. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Islam
Commercial Agriculture
Distribution
Equator
43. Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Genocide
Functional Region
Communism
Nationalism
44. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
World Trade Organization
Cultural Divergence
Telecommunications
Functional Region
45. 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
Doldrums
Ideology
Steam Power
Suburb
46. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Archipelago
Push Factors
Nonrenewable Resources
Elevation
47. 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
Nonrenewable Resources
Surplus
Homogenous
48. A large and densely populated urban area
Cottage Industry
Subcontinent
Atheism
Urban Centers
49. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Primary Economic Activities
Utilization
Literacy Rate
Population Pyramid
50. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Rain Shadow Effect
European Union (EU)
Socioeconomic Status
World Trade