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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A ban on trade
Innovation
Clan
Steam Power
Embargo
2. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Greenhouse Effect
Relative Location
Cultural Divergence
Precipitation
3. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Terrorism
Weather
Multiculturalism
Population Distribution
4. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Drought
Atmosphere
Refugee
Desalinization
5. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Physical Geography
Political Boundaries
Megalopolis
Manufacturing
6. The belief that there is no God
Atheism
Infant Mortality Rate
Russification
Terracing
7. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Hurricane
Command Economy
Urbanization
Spatial Diffusion
8. The sector of the economy that consists intellectual activities such as government & culture & libraries & scientific research & education
Quaternary Economic Activities
Regulations
Vegetation
GIS
9. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Water Cycle
Cultural Convergence
Ecosystem
Capitalism
10. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Surplus
Genocide
Ecotourism
Megalopolis
11. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
World Trade
Free Enterprise Economic System
Relative Location
Vertical Climate Zones
12. A socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world whose economies have not yet reached First World status but have outpaced their developing counterparts
Erosion
Climate
Newly Industrialized Country
Primary Economic Activities
13. 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
Natural Disaster
Lithosphere
Push Factors
Russification
14. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Oligarchy
Demography
Death Rate
Cottage Industry
15. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Population Distribution
Absolute Location
Cultural Divergence
Theocracy
16. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Atheism
Monotheism
Patterns of Settlement
Prime Meridian
17. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Elevation
Push Factors
GIS
18. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Megalopolis
Perceptual Region
Scarcity
Public Policies
19. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Manufacturing
Desalinization
El Nino
Minority
20. An area's original inhabitants
Greenhouse Effect
Death Rate
Cultural Divergence
Aborigine
21. Belief in multiple Gods
Capital
Socioeconomic Status
Regulations
Polytheism
22. Migration FROM a location
Emigration
Regulations
Phenomenon
More Developed Country
23. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Utilization
Meridian
Standard of living
24. A ban on trade
Socialism
Embargo
Biome
Terrorism
25. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Polytheism
Functional Region
Multiculturalism
Ecosystem
26. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Global Trade Patterns
Republic
Russification
Infrastructure
27. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Pandemic
Subsidized
Secondary Economic Activities
Infrastructure
28. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Less Developed Country
Patriotism
Ecotourism
Welfare
29. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Formal Region
Tarifff
Population Distribution
Vertical Climate Zones
30. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Judaism
Socioeconomic Status
Greenhouse Effect
Precipitation
31. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Commercial Agriculture
Demographic Indicators
Service Industries
Plate Tectonics
32. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Dynasty
Scarcity
Russification
33. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Nuclear
Outsourcing
Fault
Climate
34. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Evaporation
Island
Field Interviews
Refugee
35. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement
Gross Domestic Product
Region
Dynasty
36. (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
Greenhouse Effect
Region
Secondary Economic Activities
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
37. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Fold
Dictatorship
Russification
Nationality
38. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Nationalism
El Nino
Mantle
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
39. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Nonrenewable Resources
Periphaler
Primary Economic Activities
40. 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
Leeward
El Nino
Judaism
Free Enterprise Economic System
41. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Deficit
Subcontinent
Atmosphere
Human Development Index
42. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Oral Tradition
Deficit
Spatial Diffusion
North American Free Trade Agreement
43. The statistical characteristics of a population
Less Developed Country
Homogenous
Demographic Indicators
Bubonic Plague
44. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Life Expectancy
Subsistence Farming
Proximity
Global Trade Patterns
45. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Ethnic group
Vertical Climate Zones
Surplus
Global Warming
46. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Continental Drift
Civil War
Glacier
Phenomenon
47. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Genocide
Free Trade Zone
Free Enterprise Economic System
Commercial Industry
48. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Geopolitical
Islam
Federal System
Death Rate
49. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Oligarchy
Relative Location
Utilization
Sikhism
50. Selling and buying on the internet
Tsunami
E-commerce
Culture
Tsunami