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World Geography
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1. (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
Demography
Nuclear
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Prime Meridian
2. 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
Desalinization
Newly Industrialized Country
Ethnic group
Patterns of Settlement
3. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
Fold
North American Free Trade Agreement
Equator
Christianity
4. A tax on imports or exports
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Tarifff
Leeward
Newly Industrialized Country
5. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Homogenous
Christianity
Judaism
Dynasty
6. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Industrialization
Voting Patterns
Free Trade Zone
Secondary Economic Activities
7. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Socialism
Command Economy
Columbian Exchange
Monsoon
8. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Island
Demographic Indicators
Newly Industrialized Country
Bubonic Plague
9. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Socioeconomic Status
Hinduism
Customs
Spatial Diffusion
10. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Emigration
Human Development Index
Political Boundaries
Command Economy
11. A religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions & beliefs & and practices based on Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha
Buddhism
Collective Farm
Formal Region
Terracing
12. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Hurricane
Island
Sustainable Development
Elevation
13. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Newly Industrialized Country
Natural Disaster
Christianity
Monotheism
14. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
More Developed Country
Island
Distribution
Sovereignty
15. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Immigration
Earthquakes
Terrorism
Population Pyramid
16. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Plate Tectonics
Equator
Free Enterprise Economic System
Commercial Industry
17. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Minority
Clan
Geopolitical
Nationalism
18. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Cultural Convergence
Cottage Industry
Terracing
Republic
19. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Civil War
Prime Meridian
Death Rate
Industrialization
20. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Functional Region
Topography
Precipitation
Greenhouse Effect
21. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Market Economy
Autocracy
Rain Shadow Effect
Cultural Hearth
22. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Oral Tradition
Phenomenon
Tertiary Economic Activities
Globalization
23. 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
Nationalism
Unitary System
Newly Industrialized Country
Acid Rain
24. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Vegetation
Deficit
Diversity
El Nino
25. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
International
Urbanization
Fault
Ocean Currents
26. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
GIS
Distribution
Capital
Hurricane
27. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Voting Patterns
Fault
Regulations
Lithosphere
28. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Dynasty
Capital
Isthmus
Atmosphere
29. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Biome
Spatial Diffusion
Totalitarian System
Oligarchy
30. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Flood
Monsoon
Mantle
Traditional Economy
31. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Renewable Resources
Bubonic Plague
El Nino
Commodity
32. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Manufacturing
Atheism
Secondary Economic Activities
Drought
33. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Pandemic
Cultural Hearth
Ecosystem
Utilization
34. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Regulations
Desalinization
Hemisphere
Distribution
35. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
World Trade Organization
Oral Tradition
Pull Factors
Continent
36. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
El Nino
Scarcity
Communism
Formal Region
37. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Windward
Weather
Tornado
Infant Mortality Rate
38. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Relative Location
Steam Power
Archipelago
39. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Voting Patterns
Terrorism
Demography
Secondary Economic Activities
40. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Cottage Industry
Renewable Resources
Meridian
Innovation
41. A system of ideas and ideals & esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political policy; the ideas and manner of thinking of a group social class & or individual
Ideology
Islam
Ocean Currents
Aerial Photographs
42. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Suburb
Russification
Formal Region
Symbiotic
43. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Population Distribution
Christianity
Topography
Refugee
44. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Commercial Agriculture
Autocracy
Greenhouse Effect
Birthrate
45. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Genocide
Continental Drift
Sustainable Development
Water Cycle
46. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Collective Farm
Indigenous
Windward
Life Expectancy
47. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Tsunami
Standard of living
Vertical Climate Zones
Symbiotic
48. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
Tornado
Sikhism
Hurricane
Voting Patterns
49. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Glacier
Tsunami
Desalinization
Archipelago
50. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Federal System
Free Enterprise Economic System
Oligarchy
Latitude