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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A localized & violently destructive windstorm occurring over land & and characterized by a long & funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris
Natural Disaster
Functional Region
Buddhism
Tornado
2. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Life Expectancy
Physical Geography
Market Economy
Biosphere
3. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
African Union (AU)
Desalinization
Isthmus
4. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Sustainable Development
Dictatorship
Homogenous
Deficit
5. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Oral Tradition
Symbiotic
Homogenous
Acid Rain
6. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Formal Region
Unitary System
Aborigine
Scarcity
7. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Doldrums
Vegetation
Outsourcing
8. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Perceptual Region
Megalopolis
Glacier
Push Factors
9. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Autocracy
Patriotism
Elevation
Traditional Economy
10. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
More Developed Country
Christianity
Customs
Republic
11. The force of bringing group members closer together
Cohesiveness
Regulations
Glacier
Doldrums
12. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Ethnic Cleansing
World Trade
Bubonic Plague
Genocide
13. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Suburb
Voting Patterns
Multiculturalism
Subcontinent
14. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Absolute Location
Megalopolis
Fold
Christianity
15. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Ethnic group
Plate Tectonics
Eutrophication
Grid System
16. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Welfare
Plate Tectonics
Functional Region
Genocide
17. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Traditional Economy
Connectivity
Doldrums
Patterns of Settlement
18. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Oligarchy
Flood
Biome
19. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Indigenous
Rain Shadow Effect
Prime Meridian
Ecosystem
20. 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
Spatial Diffusion
Human Development Index
Judaism
Monsoon
21. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Collective Farm
Globalization
Islam
Socialism
22. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Federal System
Free Enterprise Economic System
Cohesiveness
Christianity
23. 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
More Developed Country
Newly Industrialized Country
Ideology
Terrorism
24. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Field Interviews
Atmosphere
Nationalism
Terrorism
25. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Commercial Industry
Market Economy
Free Enterprise Economic System
Atheism
26. 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
Dictatorship
Physical Geography
African Union (AU)
Steam Power
27. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Commercial Agriculture
Fold
Prime Meridian
E-commerce
28. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Population Density
Global Trade Patterns
Absolute Location
29. 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)
Monarchy
Global Warming
Customs
30. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Domestic
Tarifff
Birthrate
Global Warming
31. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Prime Meridian
Oral Tradition
Physical Geography
Christianity
32. Love for or devotion to one's country
Patriotism
Erosion
Clan
Democracy
33. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Subsistence Farming
Subcontinent
Voting Patterns
Drought
34. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Columbian Exchange
Tertiary Economic Activities
More Developed Country
Embargo
35. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Ecosystem
Immigration
Sovereignty
Glacier
36. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
Push Factors
Plate Tectonics
Vertical Climate Zones
Capital
37. A place united by a specific characteristics
Population Density
Archipelago
Region
Commodity
38. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
African Union (AU)
Islam
World Trade Organization
Collective Farm
39. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Ideology
Diversity
Ocean Currents
Bubonic Plague
40. A place united by a specific characteristics
Biosphere
Doldrums
Island
Region
41. Goods produced for sale
Demographic Indicators
Commodity
Precipitation
Human Development Index
42. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Tertiary Economic Activities
Infant Mortality Rate
Domestic
Hydrosphere
43. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Minority
Lithosphere
Dictatorship
Ideology
44. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Region
Industrialization
Megalopolis
Genocide
45. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Leeward
Ethnic group
Bubonic Plague
Desalinization
46. One who flees his or her home for safety
Tertiary Economic Activities
Windward
Greenhouse Effect
Refugee
47. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Voting Patterns
Precipitation
Hydrosphere
48. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Human Geography
Formal Region
Ecosystem
More Developed Country
49. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Flood
Perceptual Region
Desalinization
Distribution
50. Belief in multiple Gods
Cottage Industry
E-commerce
Erosion
Polytheism