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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
European Union (EU)
Formal Region
Cohesiveness
Pull Factors
2. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Culture
Innovation
Biosphere
Atheism
3. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Nationality
Patterns of Settlement
Phenomenon
Tertiary Economic Activities
4. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Subsidized
Rain Shadow Effect
Water Cycle
World Trade Organization
5. When one country needs a resource or luxury item & and another country ahs it & the countries may establish a trading network
Functional Region
Pandemic
Global Trade Patterns
Scarcity
6. A group or chain of islands
Multiculturalism
Hemisphere
Culture
Archipelago
7. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Fault
Deficit
Formal Region
Megalopolis
8. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Suburb
Tsunami
Less Developed Country
Greenhouse Effect
9. Self-rule
Sovereignty
Standard of living
Totalitarian System
Cohesiveness
10. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Socialism
Erosion
Topography
Traditional Economy
11. The height of a location above sea level
Atmosphere
Indigenous
Elevation
Perceptual Region
12. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Quaternary Economic Activities
Absolute Location
Erosion
Megalopolis
13. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Scarcity
Hemisphere
Autocracy
North American Free Trade Agreement
14. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Natural Disaster
Ecosystem
Perceptual Region
Infant Mortality Rate
15. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Perceptual Region
International
Megalopolis
Monarchy
16. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Utilization
Less Developed Country
Phenomenon
Central American Free Trade Agreement
17. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Distribution
Subsistence Farming
Monotheism
Scarcity
18. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Telecommunications
Domestic
Cultural Convergence
Urban Centers
19. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
Cohesiveness
Patterns of Settlement
Connectivity
Embargo
20. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Archipelago
Push Factors
Traditional Economy
Cultural Hearth
21. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Demography
Internet
Subcontinent
World Trade
22. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Vegetation
Aborigine
Water Cycle
Culture
23. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Socialism
Rain Shadow Effect
Water Cycle
24. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Steam Power
Hurricane
Command Economy
Symbiotic
25. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Clan
Cultural Divergence
Tertiary Economic Activities
Periphaler
26. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Sikhism
Terrorism
Latitude
Pull Factors
27. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Life Expectancy
GPS
Cultural Hearth
Fold
28. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Drought
Megalopolis
Urbanization
Westernization
29. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
GPS
Geopolitical
Socialism
30. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Free Trade Zone
Service Industries
International
Patriotism
31. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Equator
Connectivity
Windward
Hurricane
32. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Fault
Region
Renewable Resources
Domestic
33. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Telecommunications
Manufacturing
Commercial Industry
Service Industries
34. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
World Trade Organization
Urban Centers
Bubonic Plague
Eutrophication
35. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Water Cycle
Monsoon
Pandemic
Spatial Diffusion
36. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Indigenous
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Capitalism
Region
37. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Cohesiveness
United Nations (UN)
Physical Geography
Socialism
38. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Grid System
Acid Rain
Multiculturalism
Customs
39. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Telecommunications
Subsidized
Civil War
Globalization
40. An area's original inhabitants
Aborigine
European Union (EU)
Life Expectancy
Doldrums
41. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Democracy
European Union (EU)
Capitalism
Population Distribution
42. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Aerial Photographs
Continental Drift
Geopolitical
Infrastructure
43. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
Periphaler
Monarchy
Commercial Industry
44. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
Domestic
Evaporation
North American Free Trade Agreement
Global Trade Patterns
45. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
Ocean Currents
Patterns of Settlement
Capital
International
46. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Bubonic Plague
Theocracy
Hinduism
Rain Shadow Effect
47. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Symbiotic
Monotheism
Pull Factors
Phenomenon
48. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Precipitation
World Trade
Terracing
Isthmus
49. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Greenhouse Effect
Connectivity
Regulations
Voting Patterns
50. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Terrorism
Internet
Topography
Domestic