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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Longitude
Regulations
Autocracy
Standard of living
2. An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land
Tertiary Economic Activities
Rain Shadow Effect
Manufacturing
Flood
3. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Manufacturing
Ecosystem
Monotheism
Hemisphere
4. Migration FROM a location
Civil War
Emigration
Infant Mortality Rate
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
5. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Polytheism
Dictatorship
Vertical Climate Zones
Multiculturalism
6. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Quaternary Economic Activities
Minority
GPS
Clan
7. The force of bringing group members closer together
Archipelago
Sovereignty
Cohesiveness
Monsoon
8. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
European Union (EU)
Demography
Water Cycle
Hemisphere
9. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Terracing
Urbanization
Capital
Oligarchy
10. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Outsourcing
Atmosphere
Isthmus
Cohesiveness
11. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Clan
Cultural Divergence
Ecotourism
Manufacturing
12. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Urbanization
Periphaler
Clan
Culture
13. The portion of the economy concerned with transportation & communications & and utilities
Earthquakes
Market Economy
Less Developed Country
Tertiary Economic Activities
14. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Theocracy
Multiculturalism
Flood
Demographic Indicators
15. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Voting Patterns
Grid System
Elevation
Globalization
16. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
Capital
Fault
Columbian Exchange
Latitude
17. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Minority
Multiculturalism
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Communism
18. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Absolute Location
Region
GIS
Service Industries
19. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Glacier
World Trade
Continent
Global Warming
20. (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
Subsidized
Globalization
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Embargo
21. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Globalization
Diversity
Political Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
22. Outlying communities around a city
Service Industries
El Nino
Suburb
Perceptual Region
23. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Isthmus
Ocean Currents
Population Distribution
Ocean Currents
24. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Acid Rain
Grid System
Field Interviews
Secondary Economic Activities
25. An area of land surrounded by water
Free Enterprise Economic System
Island
Human Geography
Weather
26. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Population Pyramid
Desalinization
Christianity
Nuclear
27. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Cultural Hearth
Tornado
Desalinization
Telecommunications
28. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Weather
Region
Equator
Monarchy
29. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Scarcity
Oligarchy
Dynasty
Cultural Divergence
30. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Aerial Photographs
Functional Region
More Developed Country
Clan
31. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Latitude
Cultural Divergence
Multiculturalism
Atmosphere
32. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Literacy Rate
Political Boundaries
Grid System
Terracing
33. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Proximity
Monarchy
Geopolitical
34. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Equator
Absolute Location
Human Geography
Customs
35. A business that employs workers in their homes
Democracy
World Trade
Judaism
Cottage Industry
36. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Infrastructure
Christianity
Human Geography
Desalinization
37. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population Pyramid
United Nations (UN)
Secondary Economic Activities
Less Developed Country
38. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Pull Factors
Erosion
Christianity
Cultural Hearth
39. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Hurricane
Collective Farm
African Union (AU)
Columbian Exchange
40. Trade among multiple countries around the world
World Trade
Infrastructure
Less Developed Country
Regulations
41. Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Distribution
Cohesiveness
Communism
Field Interviews
42. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Primary Economic Activities
Fold
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Precipitation
43. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Capital
Westernization
Traditional Economy
Symbiotic
44. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Aerial Photographs
Civil War
Greenhouse Effect
E-commerce
45. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement
Atmosphere
Climate
Clan
46. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Erosion
Functional Region
Steam Power
Central American Free Trade Agreement
47. Form of government without a monarch in which people elect their officials
Deficit
Demographic Indicators
Atheism
Republic
48. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
El Nino
Ecosystem
Hurricane
Sovereignty
49. A frequent windless area near the Equator
El Nino
Diversity
Doldrums
Buddhism
50. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Welfare
Unitary System
GPS
Less Developed Country