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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
United Nations (UN)
Islam
Vertical Climate Zones
Command Economy
2. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Doldrums
Life Expectancy
Archipelago
Aerial Photographs
3. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Periphaler
Precipitation
Service Industries
Spatial Diffusion
4. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Spatial Diffusion
Rain Shadow Effect
Telecommunications
Nuclear
5. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Archipelago
Tsunami
Spatial Diffusion
Weather
6. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Patriotism
Dynasty
North American Free Trade Agreement
Cultural Hearth
7. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
European Union (EU)
Ocean Currents
Diversity
8. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Glacier
Terrorism
Traditional Economy
Atmosphere
9. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Refugee
Subcontinent
Theocracy
Infrastructure
10. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Culture
Infant Mortality Rate
Steam Power
Population Distribution
11. The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups
Deficit
African Union (AU)
Ethnic Cleansing
Cohesiveness
12. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Nationalism
Dictatorship
Windward
Distribution
13. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Commercial Agriculture
Death Rate
Vegetation
Monsoon
14. A place united by a specific characteristics
Regulations
Region
Public Policies
African Union (AU)
15. The statistical characteristics of a population
Mantle
Demographic Indicators
Flood
Monotheism
16. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Dynasty
Judaism
Cohesiveness
Prime Meridian
17. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Homogenous
Infrastructure
Christianity
Phenomenon
18. 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
African Union (AU)
GIS
Newly Industrialized Country
Hydrosphere
19. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
United Nations (UN)
Cottage Industry
Bubonic Plague
Global Trade Patterns
20. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Periphaler
Proximity
Earthquakes
Cultural Hearth
21. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Connectivity
Nonrenewable Resources
Bubonic Plague
Functional Region
22. Use: the act of using
Megalopolis
Democracy
Utilization
Internet
23. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Voting Patterns
Acid Rain
Domestic
Demographic Indicators
24. An area's original inhabitants
Primary Economic Activities
Greenhouse Effect
Aborigine
Urban Centers
25. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Vertical Climate Zones
Commercial Agriculture
Archipelago
Dictatorship
26. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Ocean Currents
Monsoon
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
27. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Federal System
Unitary System
Fault
Eutrophication
28. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Birthrate
Relative Location
Fault
Secondary Economic Activities
29. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Nationalism
GIS
United Nations (UN)
Urban Centers
30. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Monarchy
Market Economy
Population Pyramid
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
31. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Socialism
Monotheism
Functional Region
Domestic
32. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Phenomenon
Subsistence Farming
Monarchy
Free Enterprise Economic System
33. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Prime Meridian
Bubonic Plague
Innovation
European Union (EU)
34. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Plate Tectonics
Surplus
GPS
Diversity
35. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Meridian
Isthmus
Civil War
Welfare
36. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Secondary Economic Activities
Continental Drift
Genocide
Surplus
37. The study of Earth's physical features
Ethnic Cleansing
Terrorism
Physical Geography
Utilization
38. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Perceptual Region
Birthrate
Birthrate
Polytheism
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
Columbian Exchange
Republic
Federal System
40. Something or a company that involves more than one country
Autocracy
Renewable Resources
Cultural Hearth
International
41. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Ecosystem
Human Development Index
Dictatorship
Megalopolis
42. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
Totalitarian System
Genocide
Evaporation
43. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Internet
GIS
Columbian Exchange
Monarchy
44. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Clan
Tornado
Monarchy
Homogenous
45. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Archipelago
Infant Mortality Rate
Prime Meridian
Minority
46. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Emigration
Nonrenewable Resources
Topography
Sovereignty
47. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Life Expectancy
Monarchy
Megalopolis
Birthrate
48. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Acid Rain
Welfare
Symbiotic
Renewable Resources
49. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Weather
Homogenous
Diversity
Vegetation
50. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Tarifff
Democracy
Desalinization
Subcontinent