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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
International
Renewable Resources
Pull Factors
GPS
2. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Atheism
Megalopolis
Symbiotic
Culture
3. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Population Density
Manufacturing
Terrorism
Infant Mortality Rate
4. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Hinduism
Traditional Economy
Windward
Functional Region
5. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
European Union (EU)
Proximity
Urban Centers
Hinduism
6. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Market Economy
Distribution
Distribution
7. The effect of a natural hazard like a flood & tornado & hurricane & volcanic eruption earthquake & landslide & or tsunami which leads to financial & environmental & or human losses
Fault
World Trade
Natural Disaster
World Trade
8. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Gross Domestic Product
Socialism
Autocracy
Plate Tectonics
9. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Columbian Exchange
Federal System
Tsunami
Vegetation
10. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Periphaler
GPS
More Developed Country
Grid System
11. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Windward
Pull Factors
Biome
Urbanization
12. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Pandemic
Monotheism
Longitude
Westernization
13. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Phenomenon
Infrastructure
Oral Tradition
Drought
14. Of the same or similar kind or nature
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Russification
Homogenous
Commercial Agriculture
15. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Commodity
United Nations (UN)
Atheism
Infrastructure
16. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Immigration
Monsoon
Westernization
Regulations
17. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Climate
Welfare
Cultural Divergence
Population Distribution
18. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Outsourcing
Gross Domestic Product
Commercial Industry
Ethnic Cleansing
19. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Continent
Human Development Index
Industrialization
Socialism
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
Ocean Currents
Emigration
Free Trade Zone
Command Economy
21. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Autocracy
Formal Region
Desalinization
Terrorism
22. 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
Republic
Tornado
Autocracy
Patriotism
23. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Literacy Rate
Eutrophication
Customs
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
24. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Unitary System
Geopolitical
Lithosphere
Doldrums
25. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Functional Region
Global Trade Patterns
Acid Rain
Fault
26. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Climate
Internet
Death Rate
Hurricane
27. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Renewable Resources
Windward
Nuclear
Sovereignty
28. 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
Elevation
Atheism
Commercial Agriculture
African Union (AU)
29. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Continental Drift
Standard of living
Ecosystem
GIS
30. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Islam
Theocracy
Drought
Region
31. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Tertiary Economic Activities
Nonrenewable Resources
Leeward
Periphaler
32. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement
Infant Mortality Rate
Cultural Hearth
Nonrenewable Resources
33. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Push Factors
Symbiotic
Flood
Immigration
34. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Republic
Sovereignty
Scarcity
Island
35. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Global Trade Patterns
More Developed Country
Commodity
Columbian Exchange
36. The height of a location above sea level
Latitude
Elevation
Grid System
Suburb
37. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Fold
More Developed Country
Vertical Climate Zones
Less Developed Country
38. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Population Pyramid
Public Policies
Standard of living
Sikhism
39. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Evaporation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Earthquakes
Population Pyramid
40. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Archipelago
Nationality
Totalitarian System
Formal Region
41. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Relative Location
Capitalism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Collective Farm
42. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
Urban Centers
Weather
Commercial Agriculture
43. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Cohesiveness
Christianity
Plate Tectonics
Cultural Divergence
44. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
African Union (AU)
Tornado
North American Free Trade Agreement
Free Trade Zone
45. The belief that there is no God
Natural Disaster
Vegetation
Atheism
Internet
46. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Utilization
Fault
Island
Industrialization
47. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Rain Shadow Effect
Telecommunications
Population Distribution
Topography
48. Outlying communities around a city
Push Factors
Leeward
Emigration
Suburb
49. (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
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hemisphere
Republic
Terrorism
50. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Monsoon
Republic
Equator
Nonrenewable Resources