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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
GPS
Theocracy
Absolute Location
Earthquakes
2. The belief that there is no God
Federal System
Welfare
Cultural Convergence
Atheism
3. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
El Nino
Quaternary Economic Activities
Oral Tradition
Ethnic group
4. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Deficit
Subsistence Farming
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Patterns of Settlement
5. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Bubonic Plague
Biosphere
Population Distribution
Lithosphere
6. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Aerial Photographs
Subcontinent
Federal System
Meridian
7. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Longitude
Socioeconomic Status
Regulations
Totalitarian System
8. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
GPS
Island
Political Boundaries
Oral Tradition
9. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Cultural Divergence
Atmosphere
Voting Patterns
Cultural Convergence
10. An area of a country where some normal trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in hopes of attracting new business
Renewable Resources
Political Boundaries
Free Trade Zone
Ethnic group
11. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
El Nino
Service Industries
Minority
Hinduism
12. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Oligarchy
Secondary Economic Activities
Cultural Convergence
Birthrate
13. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Theocracy
Socialism
Human Geography
Islam
14. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Federal System
Biosphere
Central American Free Trade Agreement
United Nations (UN)
15. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Ocean Currents
Grid System
Human Development Index
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
16. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Hinduism
Subcontinent
Global Warming
Standard of living
17. One who flees his or her home for safety
Physical Geography
Refugee
Ocean Currents
Service Industries
18. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Biome
Communism
Birthrate
Cottage Industry
19. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Prime Meridian
Mantle
Globalization
Clan
20. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Nuclear
African Union (AU)
Federal System
Fault
21. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Tarifff
North American Free Trade Agreement
Totalitarian System
22. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
World Trade
Urbanization
Island
Pandemic
23. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Demography
Equator
Infrastructure
Infant Mortality Rate
24. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Civil War
European Union (EU)
Relative Location
Tarifff
25. Use: the act of using
Emigration
Continent
Utilization
Patterns of Settlement
26. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
GPS
Equator
Population Pyramid
Precipitation
27. The part of the Earth where life exists
Connectivity
Industrialization
Biosphere
Ethnic group
28. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Dictatorship
Terrorism
Steam Power
Terracing
29. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Aborigine
Population Density
Dynasty
Subcontinent
30. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Utilization
Political Boundaries
Absolute Location
Global Trade Patterns
31. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Field Interviews
Gross Domestic Product
Immigration
Terrorism
32. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Push Factors
Infant Mortality Rate
Vertical Climate Zones
Longitude
33. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Federal System
Connectivity
Monarchy
Mantle
34. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Commercial Agriculture
Less Developed Country
African Union (AU)
Russification
35. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Death Rate
Tarifff
Birthrate
Utilization
36. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Island
Judaism
Glacier
Climate
37. 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
Political Boundaries
E-commerce
Judaism
Relative Location
38. Process of converting into vapor
Grid System
Welfare
Evaporation
Unitary System
39. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Eutrophication
Ocean Currents
Telecommunications
Traditional Economy
40. Belief in one God
Monotheism
Ecosystem
Cultural Hearth
Socioeconomic Status
41. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Diversity
Leeward
Domestic
Weather
42. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Eutrophication
Public Policies
Patriotism
Pandemic
43. The statistical characteristics of a population
Secondary Economic Activities
Buddhism
African Union (AU)
Demographic Indicators
44. System of government in which a small group holds power
Telecommunications
Nationalism
Population Distribution
Oligarchy
45. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise Economic System
GPS
Human Geography
Pull Factors
46. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Desalinization
Federal System
Natural Disaster
Manufacturing
47. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Columbian Exchange
Cultural Convergence
Functional Region
Cultural Divergence
48. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Weather
Spatial Diffusion
Phenomenon
49. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Fault
Windward
Theocracy
Gross Domestic Product
50. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Topography
Multiculturalism
E-commerce
World Trade Organization