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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The value of goods and services created within a country in a year
Continental Drift
Surplus
Gross Domestic Product
Commercial Agriculture
2. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Fault
Embargo
Traditional Economy
Central American Free Trade Agreement
3. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
Climate
Patterns of Settlement
Public Policies
North American Free Trade Agreement
4. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Homogenous
Cultural Convergence
Nonrenewable Resources
Field Interviews
5. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Indigenous
Voting Patterns
Global Warming
Dictatorship
6. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Oral Tradition
Continental Drift
Glacier
Sikhism
7. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Capitalism
World Trade Organization
Relative Location
8. A religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions & beliefs & and practices based on Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha
Judaism
Buddhism
Immigration
Embargo
9. 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
Monsoon
African Union (AU)
Polytheism
Nonrenewable Resources
10. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Perceptual Region
Indigenous
Command Economy
Precipitation
11. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Continental Drift
Surplus
Gross Domestic Product
12. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Free Enterprise Economic System
Human Development Index
Prime Meridian
Archipelago
13. The study of Earth's physical features
Drought
Physical Geography
World Trade Organization
Hinduism
14. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Archipelago
Renewable Resources
Push Factors
Vegetation
15. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Sustainable Development
Indigenous
Eutrophication
Urbanization
16. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Plate Tectonics
Phenomenon
Doldrums
Terracing
17. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Dictatorship
Population Distribution
Mantle
Connectivity
18. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Meridian
Cottage Industry
Islam
Gross Domestic Product
19. Native to a place
Continent
Ecosystem
Indigenous
Flood
20. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Rain Shadow Effect
Newly Industrialized Country
Ideology
Demographic Indicators
21. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Democracy
Evaporation
Capital
Secondary Economic Activities
22. Belief in one God
Cottage Industry
Capitalism
Monotheism
Grid System
23. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Sikhism
Vegetation
Cultural Hearth
Commodity
24. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Human Development Index
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Spatial Diffusion
Perceptual Region
25. 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
Rain Shadow Effect
Gross Domestic Product
Physical Geography
26. Native to a place
Megalopolis
Democracy
Indigenous
Sustainable Development
27. 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
Nationalism
Globalization
Vegetation
Tornado
28. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Subsidized
Deficit
Meridian
Terracing
29. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Weather
Longitude
Biome
Life Expectancy
30. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Longitude
Unitary System
Death Rate
Ecotourism
31. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
United Nations (UN)
Industrialization
Ethnic group
Glacier
32. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Bubonic Plague
Continental Drift
Demographic Indicators
Commercial Agriculture
33. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Gross Domestic Product
World Trade Organization
Demographic Indicators
Quaternary Economic Activities
34. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Topography
Totalitarian System
Literacy Rate
Free Enterprise Economic System
35. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Grid System
Suburb
Acid Rain
Doldrums
36. The movement of people into one country from another
Socioeconomic Status
Bubonic Plague
Immigration
Absolute Location
37. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
Weather
Subsistence Farming
World Trade Organization
38. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Prime Meridian
Life Expectancy
Culture
Atmosphere
39. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Literacy Rate
Isthmus
Buddhism
Functional Region
40. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Deficit
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Collective Farm
World Trade
41. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Subsistence Farming
Prime Meridian
Natural Disaster
Diversity
42. Outlying communities around a city
Republic
Suburb
Emigration
Oral Tradition
43. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Infrastructure
Glacier
Surplus
Longitude
44. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Newly Industrialized Country
Clan
United Nations (UN)
45. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Russification
Sikhism
Field Interviews
Tarifff
46. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
E-commerce
Climate
Dictatorship
Earthquakes
47. A place united by a specific characteristics
Terracing
Region
Buddhism
Pull Factors
48. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Welfare
Homogenous
Infant Mortality Rate
Terracing
49. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Latitude
Clan
GIS
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
50. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Russification
World Trade Organization
Geopolitical
Nationality