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World Geography
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1. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Continental Drift
Hurricane
Tsunami
Russification
2. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Global Warming
Service Industries
Human Geography
Manufacturing
3. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Absolute Location
European Union (EU)
Geopolitical
Mantle
4. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Standard of living
Tarifff
Topography
Welfare
5. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Market Economy
Ideology
Commercial Agriculture
Acid Rain
6. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Free Trade Zone
Topography
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Manufacturing
7. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Industrialization
Spatial Diffusion
Collective Farm
Aborigine
8. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Symbiotic
Precipitation
Hemisphere
Quaternary Economic Activities
9. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Immigration
Culture
European Union (EU)
Globalization
10. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Regulations
El Nino
United Nations (UN)
International
11. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Urban Centers
Plate Tectonics
Infant Mortality Rate
Steam Power
12. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Sikhism
Diversity
Topography
13. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Longitude
Subcontinent
Market Economy
Russification
14. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Diversity
GIS
Domestic
15. 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
Judaism
Unitary System
Demographic Indicators
Demography
16. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Functional Region
Symbiotic
Traditional Economy
Diversity
17. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Clan
Westernization
Free Trade Zone
Utilization
18. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Spatial Diffusion
Westernization
Megalopolis
Ecosystem
19. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Subsidized
Subsidized
Capitalism
Aborigine
20. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Traditional Economy
Vegetation
Republic
Scarcity
21. An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land
Formal Region
Island
Flood
More Developed Country
22. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Greenhouse Effect
Unitary System
Monotheism
Tertiary Economic Activities
23. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Homogenous
Newly Industrialized Country
Human Geography
Customs
24. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Region
Subsidized
Multiculturalism
Free Enterprise Economic System
25. The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface & generally through agriculture & mining & fishing & or forestry
Primary Economic Activities
Ocean Currents
Continental Drift
Vertical Climate Zones
26. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Surplus
Formal Region
Desalinization
Internet
27. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Market Economy
Less Developed Country
Ecotourism
Lithosphere
28. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Prime Meridian
Domestic
Oligarchy
Periphaler
29. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Megalopolis
Functional Region
Emigration
Death Rate
30. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Dictatorship
Tsunami
Urban Centers
United Nations (UN)
31. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Autocracy
Public Policies
Proximity
World Trade Organization
32. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Symbiotic
Collective Farm
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Connectivity
33. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
World Trade
El Nino
Patterns of Settlement
Birthrate
34. A business that employs workers in their homes
Cottage Industry
Sovereignty
Acid Rain
Urbanization
35. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Minority
Federal System
Perceptual Region
Communism
36. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Dynasty
Equator
Nationalism
Regulations
37. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Rain Shadow Effect
Ecosystem
Spatial Diffusion
Cohesiveness
38. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Phenomenon
Leeward
Immigration
Capitalism
39. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Political Boundaries
Ecosystem
Internet
Deficit
40. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Infant Mortality Rate
Cohesiveness
Birthrate
Physical Geography
41. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
More Developed Country
Islam
Precipitation
Pandemic
42. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Renewable Resources
Service Industries
Ideology
Sikhism
43. Native to a place
Aerial Photographs
Indigenous
Pull Factors
Greenhouse Effect
44. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Command Economy
Traditional Economy
Hemisphere
Human Geography
45. 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
Hurricane
Phenomenon
Tornado
Functional Region
46. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Death Rate
Distribution
Push Factors
E-commerce
47. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Subcontinent
Plate Tectonics
Vegetation
Demographic Indicators
48. Location in relation to other places
Absolute Location
Greenhouse Effect
Relative Location
Nonrenewable Resources
49. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Population Distribution
Symbiotic
Distribution
Innovation
50. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Topography
Megalopolis
North American Free Trade Agreement
Indigenous