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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Biome
Connectivity
Climate
Culture
2. A ban on trade
Oral Tradition
Embargo
Sovereignty
Life Expectancy
3. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Telecommunications
Aborigine
Customs
Urban Centers
4. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Ethnic group
Distribution
Cultural Hearth
Equator
5. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Hurricane
Monarchy
Renewable Resources
Water Cycle
6. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
Oral Tradition
Drought
Cottage Industry
7. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Culture
Innovation
Indigenous
Demographic Indicators
8. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Totalitarian System
More Developed Country
Phenomenon
Ecotourism
9. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Aerial Photographs
Symbiotic
Infrastructure
Customs
10. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Pandemic
Communism
Emigration
Telecommunications
11. Love for or devotion to one's country
Patriotism
Megalopolis
Cottage Industry
Surplus
12. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Death Rate
Dictatorship
GIS
Service Industries
13. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
United Nations (UN)
Death Rate
Totalitarian System
Demography
14. A localized & violently destructive windstorm occurring over land & and characterized by a long & funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris
Tornado
Isthmus
Monotheism
Terrorism
15. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Emigration
Surplus
Westernization
Elevation
16. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Windward
Greenhouse Effect
Oligarchy
Global Warming
17. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Hemisphere
Renewable Resources
Homogenous
Capital
18. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Topography
Pull Factors
Dynasty
Patterns of Settlement
19. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Death Rate
Socioeconomic Status
Collective Farm
Quaternary Economic Activities
20. An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land
Sovereignty
Flood
Push Factors
Oral Tradition
21. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Public Policies
Cultural Convergence
Absolute Location
Scarcity
22. 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
Human Development Index
Ethnic group
Indigenous
Primary Economic Activities
23. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Nationalism
Bubonic Plague
Geopolitical
Emigration
24. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Free Enterprise Economic System
Infrastructure
Birthrate
Theocracy
25. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Push Factors
Region
Topography
Drought
26. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Doldrums
Columbian Exchange
Monotheism
Equator
27. The force of bringing group members closer together
Human Geography
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Phenomenon
Cohesiveness
28. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Fault
Mantle
Political Boundaries
Less Developed Country
29. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Terracing
Collective Farm
Innovation
Death Rate
30. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Perceptual Region
Meridian
Elevation
Global Warming
31. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Elevation
Cultural Divergence
Republic
Socialism
32. Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake
Tsunami
Less Developed Country
Suburb
Urban Centers
33. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Embargo
Cottage Industry
Multiculturalism
Grid System
34. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Patriotism
Secondary Economic Activities
Subcontinent
Sovereignty
35. Use: the act of using
Distribution
Terrorism
Suburb
Utilization
36. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
Population Distribution
GPS
North American Free Trade Agreement
Ideology
37. Native to a place
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Eutrophication
Indigenous
Tsunami
38. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Market Economy
Infant Mortality Rate
GIS
Continent
39. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Region
Life Expectancy
Biome
Fold
40. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Russification
Spatial Diffusion
Prime Meridian
Ecotourism
41. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Manufacturing
Phenomenon
Aerial Photographs
Human Development Index
42. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Hinduism
Hemisphere
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Phenomenon
43. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Symbiotic
Death Rate
Capital
Globalization
44. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Biome
Ecotourism
Pandemic
GIS
45. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Cultural Convergence
Tertiary Economic Activities
Life Expectancy
Archipelago
46. A place united by a specific characteristics
Region
Secondary Economic Activities
Aborigine
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
47. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Socioeconomic Status
Diversity
Less Developed Country
Less Developed Country
48. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Topography
Proximity
Biome
Human Development Index
49. Belief in one God
Monotheism
Atheism
Cultural Hearth
Public Policies
50. Belief in one God
Monotheism
Natural Disaster
Monsoon
Symbiotic