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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Precipitation
Telecommunications
Grid System
Leeward
2. Trade among multiple countries around the world
World Trade
Continental Drift
World Trade Organization
Atmosphere
3. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Utilization
Dictatorship
Push Factors
Island
4. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Renewable Resources
Nationality
Immigration
Unitary System
5. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Buddhism
Quaternary Economic Activities
Less Developed Country
6. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Ethnic group
Nuclear
GPS
Flood
7. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Continent
Global Warming
Rain Shadow Effect
Perceptual Region
8. One who flees his or her home for safety
GPS
Ecotourism
Refugee
Sikhism
9. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
El Nino
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Homogenous
Greenhouse Effect
10. A place united by a specific characteristics
Cultural Convergence
Region
Distribution
Atmosphere
11. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Primary Economic Activities
Global Warming
Ecotourism
Commercial Industry
12. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Dynasty
Prime Meridian
Tertiary Economic Activities
Desalinization
13. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Deficit
Domestic
Pull Factors
Surplus
14. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Continental Drift
Democracy
Communism
World Trade
15. Belief in one God
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Homogenous
Christianity
Monotheism
16. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Field Interviews
Globalization
Fold
Capitalism
17. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
GIS
Refugee
Vertical Climate Zones
Indigenous
18. Self-rule
GIS
Sovereignty
Nationality
Telecommunications
19. A large and densely populated urban area
Nationalism
Urban Centers
Precipitation
Pull Factors
20. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Mantle
Oral Tradition
Less Developed Country
21. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Multiculturalism
Unitary System
Pull Factors
Ecotourism
22. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Nonrenewable Resources
Acid Rain
Telecommunications
Clan
23. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Public Policies
Regulations
Newly Industrialized Country
Primary Economic Activities
24. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Equator
Hinduism
Weather
Subcontinent
25. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Russification
Market Economy
Public Policies
International
26. A group or chain of islands
Desalinization
Archipelago
Diversity
Primary Economic Activities
27. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Ideology
Functional Region
Glacier
Hemisphere
28. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Demography
Aerial Photographs
Periphaler
Commercial Industry
29. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Homogenous
Physical Geography
Life Expectancy
Polytheism
30. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Grid System
Weather
Civil War
Ecosystem
31. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Islam
Patterns of Settlement
Meridian
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
32. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Meridian
Population Density
Tarifff
Greenhouse Effect
33. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Secondary Economic Activities
Immigration
Subsistence Farming
Outsourcing
34. (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
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hemisphere
Capitalism
Natural Disaster
35. Outlying communities around a city
Population Density
Suburb
Ecosystem
Terrorism
36. Process of converting into vapor
European Union (EU)
Evaporation
Region
Continental Drift
37. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Human Development Index
Nationality
Longitude
Quaternary Economic Activities
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
Hydrosphere
Judaism
Refugee
Human Geography
39. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Socioeconomic Status
Commercial Industry
Monarchy
Fault
40. A business that employs workers in their homes
Megalopolis
Cottage Industry
Infrastructure
Political Boundaries
41. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Megalopolis
More Developed Country
Eutrophication
Refugee
42. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Infrastructure
E-commerce
Westernization
Dictatorship
43. 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
African Union (AU)
Acid Rain
Federal System
Erosion
44. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Pull Factors
Dynasty
Global Warming
Geopolitical
45. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Cultural Hearth
Life Expectancy
Glacier
Innovation
46. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Elevation
Climate
Buddhism
Westernization
47. An area's original inhabitants
Telecommunications
Civil War
Aborigine
Subsidized
48. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Ideology
Flood
Spatial Diffusion
More Developed Country
49. An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land
Longitude
Subcontinent
Urban Centers
Flood
50. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Mantle
Cohesiveness
Customs
Proximity