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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Water Cycle
Clan
Cohesiveness
Christianity
2. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Population Density
Literacy Rate
Drought
Vegetation
3. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Aborigine
Hurricane
Eutrophication
Meridian
4. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Cultural Divergence
Emigration
World Trade
Life Expectancy
5. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Commercial Agriculture
Population Density
GIS
Drought
6. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Monsoon
Island
Aerial Photographs
Climate
7. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Continental Drift
Outsourcing
Cultural Hearth
Isthmus
8. An area's original inhabitants
Aborigine
Life Expectancy
Buddhism
Telecommunications
9. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Secondary Economic Activities
Precipitation
Rain Shadow Effect
Deficit
10. A place united by a specific characteristics
Grid System
Cohesiveness
Dynasty
Region
11. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Physical Geography
Equator
Tarifff
12. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Global Warming
More Developed Country
Socioeconomic Status
Human Geography
13. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Formal Region
Windward
Monsoon
Weather
14. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Domestic
Manufacturing
Buddhism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
15. Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Fold
Erosion
Mantle
Communism
16. 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 Agriculture
Symbiotic
Public Policies
17. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Continent
Service Industries
Innovation
Pandemic
18. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Glacier
Nationality
Windward
Public Policies
19. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Cultural Convergence
Free Trade Zone
Phenomenon
Outsourcing
20. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Oral Tradition
Birthrate
Region
Gross Domestic Product
21. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
GPS
North American Free Trade Agreement
Cultural Divergence
Secondary Economic Activities
22. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Quaternary Economic Activities
Biome
Earthquakes
Urbanization
23. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Ideology
Erosion
Socialism
Fold
24. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Earthquakes
Socialism
Tornado
Region
25. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Infant Mortality Rate
Cultural Hearth
Distribution
Hinduism
26. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Population Distribution
Atmosphere
Absolute Location
Nationality
27. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Unitary System
Leeward
Human Development Index
GIS
28. An area of land surrounded by water
Island
Connectivity
Socioeconomic Status
Urban Centers
29. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Regulations
Renewable Resources
Glacier
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
30. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Atmosphere
Federal System
Outsourcing
World Trade
31. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Glacier
Civil War
El Nino
Fold
32. 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
Tornado
Christianity
Homogenous
Cultural Convergence
33. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Terracing
Cohesiveness
Distribution
Socialism
34. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Sustainable Development
Longitude
Precipitation
Judaism
35. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Global Trade Patterns
Natural Disaster
Surplus
36. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Atheism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Primary Economic Activities
Biome
37. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Natural Disaster
Cohesiveness
Eutrophication
Plate Tectonics
38. 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
Buddhism
Bubonic Plague
Natural Disaster
Periphaler
39. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Greenhouse Effect
Renewable Resources
Greenhouse Effect
Precipitation
40. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Climate
Desalinization
Nuclear
41. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Ocean Currents
Desalinization
Outsourcing
Immigration
42. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Domestic
Gross Domestic Product
Hemisphere
Topography
43. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Minority
Precipitation
Voting Patterns
Christianity
44. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Population Density
Proximity
Homogenous
Atheism
45. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Innovation
Glacier
World Trade Organization
Dictatorship
46. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Quaternary Economic Activities
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Hurricane
Hydrosphere
47. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Surplus
Subcontinent
Monarchy
Columbian Exchange
48. Trade among multiple countries around the world
E-commerce
Infant Mortality Rate
World Trade
Telecommunications
49. 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
Topography
Continental Drift
Newly Industrialized Country
Megalopolis
50. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Primary Economic Activities
Doldrums
Human Geography
Clan