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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Cultural Hearth
African Union (AU)
Tornado
Elevation
2. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Glacier
Latitude
3. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
International
Nationality
Gross Domestic Product
Aerial Photographs
4. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
More Developed Country
Surplus
Russification
Unitary System
5. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Isthmus
Vertical Climate Zones
Pandemic
6. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Steam Power
Phenomenon
Polytheism
Absolute Location
7. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Nationality
Commercial Industry
Perceptual Region
Outsourcing
8. The movement of people into one country from another
Immigration
Commodity
Cottage Industry
Nonrenewable Resources
9. Belief in multiple Gods
Distribution
Polytheism
Utilization
Commercial Industry
10. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
United Nations (UN)
Islam
Plate Tectonics
Market Economy
11. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Equator
Public Policies
Socialism
Gross Domestic Product
12. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Greenhouse Effect
Pull Factors
Connectivity
Tornado
13. The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups
Terracing
Ethnic Cleansing
Continent
Ethnic group
14. Powered by a steam engine
Steam Power
World Trade
Ocean Currents
Doldrums
15. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Symbiotic
Ecosystem
Glacier
GIS
16. A place united by a specific characteristics
Collective Farm
Public Policies
Region
Drought
17. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
More Developed Country
Unitary System
Culture
Water Cycle
18. Outlying communities around a city
Mantle
Suburb
Domestic
Command Economy
19. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
European Union (EU)
Utilization
Cultural Convergence
Socioeconomic Status
20. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Tarifff
Monarchy
Patriotism
European Union (EU)
21. Use: the act of using
Tarifff
Utilization
Precipitation
Service Industries
22. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Tsunami
Urbanization
Phenomenon
Russification
23. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
Hydrosphere
Death Rate
Elevation
24. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Pandemic
Tornado
Atmosphere
Federal System
25. A ban on trade
Spatial Diffusion
Embargo
Nuclear
Plate Tectonics
26. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Standard of living
Erosion
Subcontinent
Islam
27. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Industrialization
Longitude
Archipelago
Cohesiveness
28. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Region
Tarifff
Public Policies
Secondary Economic Activities
29. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Unitary System
Fold
United Nations (UN)
GPS
30. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Deficit
Water Cycle
Pandemic
Ethnic Cleansing
31. 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
Internet
World Trade
Ideology
Tsunami
32. Something or a company that involves more than one country
International
Ecotourism
Hurricane
Erosion
33. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
African Union (AU)
World Trade Organization
Sikhism
Civil War
34. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Symbiotic
Republic
Political Boundaries
Cohesiveness
35. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Judaism
GPS
Meridian
Eutrophication
36. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Natural Disaster
Traditional Economy
Embargo
Ethnic group
37. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Homogenous
Birthrate
Tarifff
Functional Region
38. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Vertical Climate Zones
Terracing
Hemisphere
Tsunami
39. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Global Warming
Earthquakes
Free Trade Zone
Deficit
40. A large and densely populated urban area
Population Density
Multiculturalism
Urban Centers
Oral Tradition
41. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Commercial Industry
Functional Region
Service Industries
Internet
42. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Connectivity
Population Pyramid
Public Policies
Island
43. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Regulations
Nationalism
Capitalism
Democracy
44. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Evaporation
Theocracy
Human Development Index
Dictatorship
45. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Phenomenon
Scarcity
Human Geography
Doldrums
46. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Windward
Vertical Climate Zones
Emigration
Atheism
47. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Earthquakes
Distribution
Bubonic Plague
Democracy
48. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Standard of living
Socialism
Columbian Exchange
Voting Patterns
49. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Drought
Plate Tectonics
Megalopolis
Glacier
50. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Socioeconomic Status
Islam
International
Welfare