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World Geography
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1. An area of land surrounded by water
Desalinization
Hydrosphere
Life Expectancy
Island
2. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Leeward
Diversity
Traditional Economy
3. A union consisting of 53 African States whose objectives are to: Accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent - Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples - Achieve p
Plate Tectonics
Minority
Grid System
African Union (AU)
4. A tax on imports or exports
Judaism
Mantle
Tarifff
GIS
5. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Nationality
Tornado
Indigenous
6. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Atmosphere
Republic
Welfare
Physical Geography
7. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Oligarchy
Clan
Ethnic group
Patterns of Settlement
8. A religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions & beliefs & and practices based on Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha
Urbanization
Buddhism
Islam
Phenomenon
9. The movement of people into one country from another
Dynasty
Minority
Elevation
Immigration
10. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Steam Power
Ecotourism
Drought
Megalopolis
11. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Drought
Precipitation
Connectivity
Homogenous
12. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Lithosphere
Doldrums
Monsoon
Democracy
13. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Globalization
El Nino
Surplus
Physical Geography
14. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Erosion
Dictatorship
Genocide
Theocracy
15. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Eutrophication
Totalitarian System
Free Enterprise Economic System
Nationalism
16. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Atheism
Vegetation
Plate Tectonics
17. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Megalopolis
Public Policies
Regulations
Spatial Diffusion
18. Belief in one God
Erosion
Monotheism
Eutrophication
Refugee
19. An area's original inhabitants
Life Expectancy
Nationality
Tertiary Economic Activities
Aborigine
20. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Ethnic group
Death Rate
Columbian Exchange
Pull Factors
21. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Socialism
Geopolitical
Elevation
Dynasty
22. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Atmosphere
Genocide
Bubonic Plague
Ecosystem
23. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Population Distribution
Manufacturing
El Nino
Subcontinent
24. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Water Cycle
Telecommunications
Human Development Index
Aborigine
25. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Homogenous
Dictatorship
Vegetation
Innovation
26. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Latitude
Ocean Currents
Nuclear
Formal Region
27. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Subsistence Farming
El Nino
Federal System
E-commerce
28. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Ecotourism
Unitary System
Latitude
29. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Buddhism
Capitalism
Judaism
30. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Tornado
Standard of living
Lithosphere
Patriotism
31. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Standard of living
Scarcity
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Human Geography
32. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Genocide
Biosphere
Weather
Flood
33. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Windward
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Weather
E-commerce
34. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Atheism
Population Distribution
Traditional Economy
Relative Location
35. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Functional Region
Megalopolis
Connectivity
Erosion
36. A business that employs workers in their homes
Cottage Industry
Terracing
Autocracy
Earthquakes
37. Native to a place
Longitude
Symbiotic
Indigenous
Dynasty
38. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Secondary Economic Activities
Customs
Earthquakes
Less Developed Country
39. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Leeward
Columbian Exchange
Isthmus
Hinduism
40. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Terrorism
Sikhism
Gross Domestic Product
Sovereignty
41. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Unitary System
Primary Economic Activities
Field Interviews
Less Developed Country
42. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Symbiotic
Human Geography
Cottage Industry
Phenomenon
43. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
European Union (EU)
Continent
Natural Disaster
Nonrenewable Resources
44. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Demography
Formal Region
Hinduism
Global Trade Patterns
45. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Republic
Fault
Death Rate
Region
46. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
North American Free Trade Agreement
Regulations
Drought
Relative Location
47. One who flees his or her home for safety
Refugee
Latitude
Political Boundaries
Russification
48. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Ecotourism
Vegetation
Glacier
Island
49. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Service Industries
Nationalism
E-commerce
Globalization
50. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Renewable Resources
Death Rate
Acid Rain
Indigenous