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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Physical Geography
African Union (AU)
Urban Centers
Weather
2. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Global Trade Patterns
Formal Region
Patriotism
Ecotourism
3. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Ecosystem
Islam
Gross Domestic Product
Refugee
4. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Doldrums
Autocracy
African Union (AU)
Clan
5. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Surplus
World Trade Organization
Human Development Index
More Developed Country
6. Outlying communities around a city
Urbanization
Suburb
Hemisphere
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
7. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Clan
Monsoon
Continental Drift
Fault
8. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Prime Meridian
Equator
Leeward
9. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Oligarchy
Public Policies
Climate
Spatial Diffusion
10. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Infrastructure
El Nino
Telecommunications
European Union (EU)
11. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Vertical Climate Zones
Cultural Hearth
Global Warming
Free Enterprise Economic System
12. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Hemisphere
Proximity
Tsunami
Earthquakes
13. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Field Interviews
Tsunami
Ecosystem
World Trade Organization
14. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Global Warming
Literacy Rate
Primary Economic Activities
Standard of living
15. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Proximity
Capitalism
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Patterns of Settlement
16. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Welfare
Spatial Diffusion
Commodity
17. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Ocean Currents
Latitude
Manufacturing
Deficit
18. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Renewable Resources
Vertical Climate Zones
Commodity
E-commerce
19. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Subsistence Farming
Megalopolis
Civil War
Aerial Photographs
20. System of government in which a small group holds power
Buddhism
Internet
Pandemic
Oligarchy
21. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Utilization
Continental Drift
International
Ideology
22. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Columbian Exchange
Push Factors
Monarchy
Republic
23. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Judaism
Clan
Continent
24. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Immigration
Polytheism
United Nations (UN)
Service Industries
25. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Tornado
Topography
Ethnic Cleansing
Population Distribution
26. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Global Trade Patterns
Connectivity
Eutrophication
Elevation
27. Location in relation to other places
Cultural Hearth
Communism
Relative Location
Urban Centers
28. 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
Traditional Economy
Primary Economic Activities
African Union (AU)
Deficit
29. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Newly Industrialized Country
Biome
Secondary Economic Activities
Weather
30. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Meridian
Unitary System
Russification
Desalinization
31. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Minority
Steam Power
Grid System
Doldrums
32. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Outsourcing
Gross Domestic Product
Symbiotic
Vertical Climate Zones
33. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Outsourcing
Demography
Population Density
Evaporation
34. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Suburb
Christianity
Polytheism
Oral Tradition
35. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Grid System
Cottage Industry
Biosphere
Global Trade Patterns
36. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Flood
Infrastructure
Monsoon
Totalitarian System
37. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Continental Drift
Islam
Monotheism
Vertical Climate Zones
38. 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
Literacy Rate
Cohesiveness
Communism
Judaism
39. A place united by a specific characteristics
Subsidized
Patriotism
Flood
Region
40. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Tsunami
Customs
Scarcity
Market Economy
41. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Eutrophication
Indigenous
Public Policies
Urban Centers
42. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Oral Tradition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Command Economy
Grid System
43. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Windward
Plate Tectonics
Subsistence Farming
Tornado
44. 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
Cohesiveness
Surplus
Ecotourism
Free Trade Zone
45. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Natural Disaster
Life Expectancy
Voting Patterns
More Developed Country
46. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Leeward
Topography
Public Policies
Cohesiveness
47. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
Human Geography
Phenomenon
Ecosystem
48. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Nationality
Bubonic Plague
Symbiotic
Perceptual Region
49. 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
Cultural Convergence
Archipelago
Newly Industrialized Country
Cultural Divergence
50. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Minority
Monotheism
Command Economy
Lithosphere