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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Infant Mortality Rate
Global Trade Patterns
Meridian
Telecommunications
2. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Connectivity
Cultural Divergence
Culture
Theocracy
3. 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
Earthquakes
Secondary Economic Activities
Free Trade Zone
Vertical Climate Zones
4. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Democracy
Tornado
Unitary System
Market Economy
5. Self-rule
Perceptual Region
Sovereignty
Minority
Life Expectancy
6. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Patterns of Settlement
Earthquakes
Refugee
Nationality
7. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Westernization
Refugee
Terrorism
Archipelago
8. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Patriotism
Leeward
Globalization
Voting Patterns
9. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Human Development Index
Democracy
Global Trade Patterns
Christianity
10. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Collective Farm
Westernization
Capitalism
Distribution
11. The belief that there is no God
Biosphere
Infrastructure
Precipitation
Atheism
12. Form of government in which powers are divided between the national government and the state or provincial government
Atmosphere
Capital
Federal System
Bubonic Plague
13. The belief that there is no God
Absolute Location
Market Economy
Atheism
Market Economy
14. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Indigenous
Drought
Continental Drift
Demography
15. 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
Judaism
Sustainable Development
Pandemic
Relative Location
16. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Push Factors
Vertical Climate Zones
Welfare
Phenomenon
17. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Outsourcing
Unitary System
Equator
18. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Quaternary Economic Activities
Population Pyramid
Welfare
19. The study of Earth's physical features
Commercial Agriculture
Culture
Physical Geography
Ecotourism
20. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Subcontinent
Socialism
Christianity
Relative Location
21. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
Clan
Nationality
Commercial Agriculture
22. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Christianity
Natural Disaster
Secondary Economic Activities
Death Rate
23. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Human Development Index
Regulations
Civil War
United Nations (UN)
24. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Pull Factors
Megalopolis
Globalization
Doldrums
25. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Nationalism
Birthrate
Homogenous
Free Enterprise Economic System
26. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Voting Patterns
Demographic Indicators
Pull Factors
Industrialization
27. The movement of people into one country from another
Embargo
Tertiary Economic Activities
Subsidized
Immigration
28. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Ethnic group
Isthmus
Hydrosphere
Democracy
29. 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
Topography
Tornado
Socialism
Free Enterprise Economic System
30. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Subsidized
Renewable Resources
Symbiotic
Minority
31. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Newly Industrialized Country
Continental Drift
Democracy
Oral Tradition
32. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Columbian Exchange
Tarifff
Service Industries
Hinduism
33. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Grid System
Human Development Index
Hemisphere
Hurricane
34. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
International
Scarcity
Literacy Rate
Human Geography
35. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Hemisphere
Vegetation
GIS
Dictatorship
36. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Outsourcing
Buddhism
Dynasty
Evaporation
37. 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
Ethnic group
Acid Rain
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Rain Shadow Effect
38. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Water Cycle
Unitary System
Gross Domestic Product
Tertiary Economic Activities
39. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Scarcity
Fault
Pull Factors
Terrorism
40. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Outsourcing
Push Factors
Manufacturing
Latitude
41. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Less Developed Country
More Developed Country
Periphaler
GPS
42. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Glacier
Population Distribution
Meridian
Utilization
43. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Innovation
Rain Shadow Effect
Field Interviews
Refugee
44. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Hinduism
Atheism
Phenomenon
Proximity
45. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Patterns of Settlement
Fault
Telecommunications
Nuclear
46. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
North American Free Trade Agreement
Demography
Minority
Domestic
47. Belief in multiple Gods
Polytheism
Water Cycle
Christianity
Island
48. A tax on imports or exports
Service Industries
Terracing
Secondary Economic Activities
Tarifff
49. A group or chain of islands
Archipelago
Periphaler
Climate
Renewable Resources
50. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Tsunami
Gross Domestic Product
Renewable Resources
Hemisphere