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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Less Developed Country
Hydrosphere
Commercial Industry
Communism
2. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Commercial Industry
Demographic Indicators
Capital
Oral Tradition
3. 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
Precipitation
Sovereignty
Continental Drift
Tornado
4. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Human Development Index
Globalization
Aborigine
Formal Region
5. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Oligarchy
Cultural Hearth
Plate Tectonics
Archipelago
6. One who flees his or her home for safety
Refugee
Natural Disaster
Vegetation
Polytheism
7. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Federal System
Sikhism
Spatial Diffusion
Latitude
8. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Dynasty
Subsistence Farming
Outsourcing
Embargo
9. System of government in which a small group holds power
Oligarchy
Newly Industrialized Country
Nuclear
Nationalism
10. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Deficit
Clan
Aerial Photographs
11. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Republic
Longitude
Perceptual Region
Elevation
12. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Perceptual Region
Earthquakes
Monsoon
Capital
13. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Continental Drift
Demography
Precipitation
Nationalism
14. The movement of people into one country from another
Unitary System
Immigration
Aborigine
GIS
15. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
Communism
European Union (EU)
Ocean Currents
Periphaler
16. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Commercial Agriculture
Nonrenewable Resources
Internet
World Trade
17. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Tertiary Economic Activities
Innovation
International
Nationalism
18. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Globalization
Climate
Ethnic Cleansing
Population Distribution
19. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Ecotourism
Life Expectancy
Domestic
Drought
20. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Public Policies
Ethnic group
Sikhism
Push Factors
21. Location in relation to other places
Federal System
Relative Location
Nuclear
Dictatorship
22. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Voting Patterns
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Columbian Exchange
Population Density
23. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Subcontinent
Global Warming
Connectivity
Columbian Exchange
24. (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
Periphaler
Civil War
Monsoon
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
25. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Country
Patriotism
Functional Region
26. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Cultural Divergence
Industrialization
Atheism
Distribution
27. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Monotheism
European Union (EU)
Phenomenon
Genocide
28. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Human Development Index
Flood
Topography
Ideology
29. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Indigenous
Vertical Climate Zones
Westernization
30. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Secondary Economic Activities
Totalitarian System
Sikhism
Natural Disaster
31. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population Pyramid
Subsidized
Hydrosphere
Fault
32. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Democracy
Less Developed Country
Regulations
Glacier
33. 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
Hydrosphere
Ethnic group
Market Economy
Eutrophication
34. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Vertical Climate Zones
Suburb
Cultural Convergence
Hinduism
35. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Hinduism
Connectivity
Cultural Hearth
Greenhouse Effect
36. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Grid System
Monarchy
Equator
United Nations (UN)
37. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Nonrenewable Resources
Gross Domestic Product
Longitude
38. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Birthrate
Prime Meridian
Atheism
Scarcity
39. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Aborigine
Symbiotic
Commercial Agriculture
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
40. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
World Trade
Secondary Economic Activities
Demography
Global Warming
41. Use: the act of using
Urbanization
Columbian Exchange
Utilization
Mantle
42. The study of Earth's physical features
Plate Tectonics
Physical Geography
Cohesiveness
Hurricane
43. A large and densely populated urban area
Terracing
Urban Centers
Windward
Minority
44. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Commercial Industry
Ethnic group
Outsourcing
Cottage Industry
45. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Nonrenewable Resources
Market Economy
Relative Location
Telecommunications
46. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Voting Patterns
Pull Factors
Perceptual Region
E-commerce
47. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Phenomenon
Capital
Tsunami
Domestic
48. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Atheism
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Demography
Dynasty
49. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Continent
Ocean Currents
Steam Power
United Nations (UN)
50. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Commercial Industry
Demography
E-commerce
Archipelago