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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Monarchy
Global Warming
Absolute Location
Homogenous
2. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Population Density
Hurricane
Precipitation
Perceptual Region
3. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Evaporation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Cultural Convergence
Birthrate
4. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Fault
Windward
Demographic Indicators
Formal Region
5. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Prime Meridian
Commercial Agriculture
Grid System
6. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Latitude
Oral Tradition
Renewable Resources
Infrastructure
7. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Acid Rain
Perceptual Region
Christianity
Cultural Convergence
8. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Hydrosphere
Newly Industrialized Country
Cottage Industry
Human Geography
9. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Clan
Field Interviews
Diversity
Innovation
10. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Greenhouse Effect
Command Economy
Collective Farm
Outsourcing
11. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Capital
Traditional Economy
Life Expectancy
Population Pyramid
12. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Functional Region
Desalinization
Refugee
Fault
13. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Death Rate
African Union (AU)
Regulations
Topography
14. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Fault
Ideology
Life Expectancy
Domestic
15. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Topography
Prime Meridian
Literacy Rate
GIS
16. The force of bringing group members closer together
Quaternary Economic Activities
Cohesiveness
More Developed Country
Distribution
17. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Sustainable Development
Domestic
Scarcity
Life Expectancy
18. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Nuclear
Unitary System
Glacier
Leeward
19. An area's original inhabitants
Aborigine
Sustainable Development
Secondary Economic Activities
Islam
20. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Natural Disaster
Secondary Economic Activities
Literacy Rate
Equator
21. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Columbian Exchange
Spatial Diffusion
Ideology
Meridian
22. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Nonrenewable Resources
Westernization
Welfare
Tsunami
23. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Internet
Subsidized
Quaternary Economic Activities
Subsistence Farming
24. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Vegetation
Flood
Less Developed Country
25. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Islam
Manufacturing
Aerial Photographs
Precipitation
26. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Embargo
Global Trade Patterns
Atmosphere
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
27. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Push Factors
Erosion
Relative Location
Manufacturing
28. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Telecommunications
Proximity
Aborigine
Earthquakes
29. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Urbanization
Hurricane
Climate
Sovereignty
30. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Population Density
Cottage Industry
Geopolitical
Vegetation
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
Rain Shadow Effect
Death Rate
Ideology
Customs
32. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Cultural Divergence
GIS
Phenomenon
Service Industries
33. A business that employs workers in their homes
Rain Shadow Effect
Perceptual Region
Cottage Industry
Evaporation
34. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Hinduism
Prime Meridian
Innovation
Infant Mortality Rate
35. The statistical characteristics of a population
Oligarchy
Socioeconomic Status
Demographic Indicators
Death Rate
36. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Pandemic
Public Policies
Phenomenon
Vertical Climate Zones
37. Belief in one God
Pull Factors
Monotheism
Global Trade Patterns
Eutrophication
38. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Industrialization
Fold
Totalitarian System
Natural Disaster
39. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Global Warming
Public Policies
Ecotourism
North American Free Trade Agreement
40. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Unitary System
Atheism
Periphaler
Capitalism
41. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Periphaler
Natural Disaster
Infrastructure
Proximity
42. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Death Rate
Ocean Currents
Socialism
North American Free Trade Agreement
43. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Formal Region
Prime Meridian
Hinduism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
44. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Population Distribution
Columbian Exchange
Free Enterprise Economic System
Fold
45. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Population Distribution
Infant Mortality Rate
Atheism
Ecotourism
46. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Physical Geography
Cultural Hearth
Immigration
47. Powered by a steam engine
Diversity
Acid Rain
Life Expectancy
Steam Power
48. Outlying communities around a city
Suburb
Gross Domestic Product
Ideology
Internet
49. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Innovation
Manufacturing
Spatial Diffusion
Deficit
50. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Symbiotic
Unitary System
Biome
Indigenous