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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Biome
Geopolitical
Westernization
Scarcity
2. Powered by a steam engine
Urbanization
Cohesiveness
Steam Power
Judaism
3. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Outsourcing
Patriotism
Commercial Industry
Nuclear
4. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Vegetation
Global Trade Patterns
Collective Farm
Hydrosphere
5. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Oral Tradition
Fault
Hydrosphere
Immigration
6. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Push Factors
Symbiotic
Rain Shadow Effect
European Union (EU)
7. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Mantle
Topography
Ocean Currents
Urbanization
8. 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
Suburb
Refugee
Emigration
Ideology
9. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Distribution
Geopolitical
Infant Mortality Rate
Republic
10. Powered by a steam engine
Renewable Resources
Oligarchy
Polytheism
Steam Power
11. The statistical characteristics of a population
Demographic Indicators
Russification
Less Developed Country
Symbiotic
12. Outlying communities around a city
Unitary System
Drought
Suburb
Population Distribution
13. A computer system that stores & organizes & analyzes & and displays geographic data
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Capital
GIS
Theocracy
14. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Vegetation
Domestic
Literacy Rate
Internet
15. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Political Boundaries
Gross Domestic Product
Climate
Latitude
16. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Atheism
Judaism
Totalitarian System
Bubonic Plague
17. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Sustainable Development
Population Density
Emigration
Earthquakes
18. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Judaism
Sikhism
Human Geography
Patriotism
19. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Absolute Location
Cultural Convergence
Quaternary Economic Activities
Lithosphere
20. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Minority
Primary Economic Activities
Monsoon
Welfare
21. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Theocracy
Indigenous
Symbiotic
Rain Shadow Effect
22. Level of income and education
Rain Shadow Effect
Genocide
Socioeconomic Status
Tsunami
23. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Absolute Location
Rain Shadow Effect
Sovereignty
Market Economy
24. 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
Indigenous
Culture
Judaism
Distribution
25. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Hemisphere
Service Industries
Refugee
Emigration
26. 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
Free Trade Zone
Commodity
Rain Shadow Effect
Water Cycle
27. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
El Nino
Windward
Cultural Hearth
North American Free Trade Agreement
28. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Gross Domestic Product
Manufacturing
Continental Drift
Oligarchy
29. A place united by a specific characteristics
Region
Dictatorship
Regulations
Welfare
30. Goods produced for sale
Public Policies
Rain Shadow Effect
Commodity
Eutrophication
31. The movement of people into one country from another
Judaism
Spatial Diffusion
Quaternary Economic Activities
Immigration
32. The part of the Earth where life exists
E-commerce
International
Biosphere
Tornado
33. 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
Columbian Exchange
Nonrenewable Resources
Evaporation
34. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
United Nations (UN)
Public Policies
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Grid System
35. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Utilization
Internet
Functional Region
Atheism
36. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Monarchy
Plate Tectonics
Physical Geography
Suburb
37. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Life Expectancy
Fold
Continental Drift
Utilization
38. Outlying communities around a city
Newly Industrialized Country
Capital
Lithosphere
Suburb
39. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Cultural Hearth
Suburb
Climate
Continental Drift
40. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Spatial Diffusion
Nuclear
European Union (EU)
Prime Meridian
41. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Multiculturalism
Regulations
Push Factors
Commercial Industry
42. A group or chain of islands
Public Policies
Grid System
Archipelago
Globalization
43. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Globalization
Erosion
Leeward
Dictatorship
44. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Commercial Industry
Welfare
Free Enterprise Economic System
Prime Meridian
45. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Region
Mantle
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Totalitarian System
46. A tax on imports or exports
Push Factors
Tarifff
Dictatorship
Subcontinent
47. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Customs
Earthquakes
Oligarchy
Subcontinent
48. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Refugee
Christianity
Terracing
Surplus
49. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Columbian Exchange
Aerial Photographs
Theocracy
Innovation
50. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Outsourcing
Utilization
Spatial Diffusion
Erosion