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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Subsistence Farming
Hemisphere
Terracing
GIS
2. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Civil War
Fault
Cottage Industry
Lithosphere
3. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Islam
Megalopolis
United Nations (UN)
Free Enterprise Economic System
4. A tax on imports or exports
Cultural Divergence
Biome
Market Economy
Tarifff
5. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Subsistence Farming
Latitude
Sikhism
El Nino
6. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Glacier
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Collective Farm
7. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cultural Divergence
Tarifff
Quaternary Economic Activities
Push Factors
8. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Oral Tradition
Sovereignty
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Distribution
9. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Glacier
Free Enterprise Economic System
Emigration
United Nations (UN)
10. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Buddhism
Human Geography
Population Distribution
Westernization
11. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
World Trade
Theocracy
European Union (EU)
Ideology
12. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Infrastructure
Pandemic
Oligarchy
Domestic
13. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
E-commerce
Gross Domestic Product
Theocracy
Communism
14. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Connectivity
Sikhism
Proximity
Internet
15. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Primary Economic Activities
Field Interviews
Demography
16. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Hurricane
Gross Domestic Product
Columbian Exchange
Emigration
17. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Flood
Desalinization
Immigration
Latitude
18. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Global Trade Patterns
Cultural Convergence
Demographic Indicators
Rain Shadow Effect
19. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Free Trade Zone
Free Trade Zone
Pandemic
United Nations (UN)
20. Self-rule
Federal System
Sovereignty
Oligarchy
Telecommunications
21. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Pandemic
Periphaler
Biome
Islam
22. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Demographic Indicators
Isthmus
Genocide
Archipelago
23. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Socialism
Public Policies
Leeward
Population Density
24. An area of land surrounded by water
Civil War
Island
Connectivity
Minority
25. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Globalization
Pull Factors
Meridian
Buddhism
26. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Geopolitical
Human Development Index
World Trade
Political Boundaries
27. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
World Trade Organization
Civil War
Plate Tectonics
European Union (EU)
28. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Water Cycle
World Trade
Longitude
Cultural Divergence
29. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Monarchy
Commercial Industry
Ecosystem
Quaternary Economic Activities
30. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Climate
African Union (AU)
Sovereignty
Greenhouse Effect
31. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Evaporation
Continent
Death Rate
Hurricane
32. 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
Longitude
Newly Industrialized Country
Cultural Hearth
Longitude
33. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Phenomenon
Population Distribution
Cohesiveness
Infant Mortality Rate
34. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Communism
Westernization
Hinduism
North American Free Trade Agreement
35. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Telecommunications
Republic
Hydrosphere
Commercial Agriculture
36. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Newly Industrialized Country
Population Density
Communism
Monarchy
37. The statistical characteristics of a population
Biome
Bubonic Plague
Christianity
Demographic Indicators
38. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Mantle
Lithosphere
Socialism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
39. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Less Developed Country
Distribution
Isthmus
Free Enterprise Economic System
40. 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
Patterns of Settlement
Functional Region
Windward
Judaism
41. The statistical characteristics of a population
Demographic Indicators
North American Free Trade Agreement
Theocracy
Civil War
42. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Windward
Atmosphere
Symbiotic
Nationality
43. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Innovation
Pull Factors
Fault
Russification
44. (OPEC) a collective of countries founded in 1960 that choose to collaborate in order to manage the exportation of their crude oil to the rest of the world
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Industrialization
Aborigine
Pandemic
45. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Culture
Judaism
Evaporation
Ideology
46. The study of Earth's physical features
Deficit
Vegetation
Physical Geography
Quaternary Economic Activities
47. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Deficit
Terracing
Earthquakes
Fault
48. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply
Aerial Photographs
Collective Farm
Secondary Economic Activities
Drought
49. A group of people whose members identify with each other & through a common heritage & often consisting of a common language & culture & shared religion & or an ideology
Republic
European Union (EU)
Ethnic group
Ocean Currents
50. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Diversity
Gross Domestic Product
Island