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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Oligarchy
Immigration
Pull Factors
Terrorism
2. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Diversity
Sovereignty
Commercial Industry
Communism
3. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Nationalism
Pandemic
Nuclear
World Trade Organization
4. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Dynasty
Population Density
Equator
Homogenous
5. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Monotheism
Vegetation
Quaternary Economic Activities
Secondary Economic Activities
6. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Acid Rain
Public Policies
Democracy
Vegetation
7. The statistical characteristics of a population
Demographic Indicators
Surplus
Symbiotic
Rain Shadow Effect
8. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Acid Rain
Gross Domestic Product
Dictatorship
Archipelago
9. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Population Density
Monotheism
European Union (EU)
Hydrosphere
10. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Demographic Indicators
Homogenous
Tarifff
Republic
11. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Utilization
Tertiary Economic Activities
Erosion
Infant Mortality Rate
12. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Precipitation
Cottage Industry
Death Rate
Hurricane
13. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Tsunami
Functional Region
Nationalism
Steam Power
14. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Voting Patterns
Innovation
Renewable Resources
Columbian Exchange
15. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Cultural Convergence
Infant Mortality Rate
Command Economy
El Nino
16. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Tarifff
Population Distribution
Free Enterprise Economic System
Hemisphere
17. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Republic
World Trade
Birthrate
Capital
18. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Terrorism
Federal System
Socialism
19. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Birthrate
Unitary System
Plate Tectonics
Cultural Divergence
20. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Human Development Index
Cultural Divergence
Capitalism
Capital
21. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Population Density
Nonrenewable Resources
Mantle
Ocean Currents
22. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Atheism
Evaporation
Bubonic Plague
Islam
23. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Field Interviews
Autocracy
Nonrenewable Resources
Collective Farm
24. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Immigration
Commodity
Customs
Urban Centers
25. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Sovereignty
Lithosphere
Flood
Deficit
26. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Globalization
Biosphere
Symbiotic
Free Enterprise Economic System
27. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Pull Factors
Population Distribution
Mantle
Less Developed Country
28. Powered by a steam engine
Democracy
Dictatorship
Longitude
Steam Power
29. 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
Free Trade Zone
Equator
Literacy Rate
Fault
30. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
GPS
Republic
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Monarchy
31. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Newly Industrialized Country
Meridian
Population Distribution
Population Distribution
32. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Global Trade Patterns
Population Pyramid
Topography
Regulations
33. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
African Union (AU)
Rain Shadow Effect
GPS
Glacier
34. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Outsourcing
Perceptual Region
Westernization
Fold
35. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Water Cycle
Ocean Currents
Tertiary Economic Activities
Less Developed Country
36. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Topography
Homogenous
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Quaternary Economic Activities
37. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
Cultural Hearth
Political Boundaries
Hurricane
European Union (EU)
38. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Primary Economic Activities
Commercial Agriculture
Cottage Industry
Scarcity
39. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Flood
Scarcity
Cohesiveness
Grid System
40. Something or a company that involves more than one country
World Trade Organization
International
Communism
Water Cycle
41. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Atmosphere
Gross Domestic Product
Topography
Plate Tectonics
42. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Cultural Convergence
Free Trade Zone
Totalitarian System
Renewable Resources
43. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Infant Mortality Rate
Cohesiveness
Death Rate
Innovation
44. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Ethnic group
Civil War
Standard of living
Westernization
45. An area's original inhabitants
Aborigine
Periphaler
Ethnic Cleansing
Service Industries
46. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Lithosphere
Patterns of Settlement
Pull Factors
Pandemic
47. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Island
Demography
Windward
Terracing
48. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Civil War
Weather
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Totalitarian System
49. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Water Cycle
More Developed Country
Dynasty
Autocracy
50. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Capitalism
Service Industries
Infrastructure
Free Enterprise Economic System