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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cultural Divergence
Life Expectancy
Monsoon
Leeward
2. A 'super-city' that is made up of several large and small cities such as the area between Boston and Washington D.C.
Global Warming
Megalopolis
Republic
Relative Location
3. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Population Pyramid
Distribution
African Union (AU)
GPS
4. The movement of people into one country from another
Oral Tradition
Immigration
Diversity
Tornado
5. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Communism
Urbanization
Periphaler
Less Developed Country
6. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Physical Geography
El Nino
Subsidized
Nationalism
7. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Sikhism
Literacy Rate
Capitalism
Megalopolis
8. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Genocide
Secondary Economic Activities
Ideology
Less Developed Country
9. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Nationality
World Trade Organization
Ethnic Cleansing
Customs
10. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Scarcity
Commercial Agriculture
Earthquakes
El Nino
11. Communications over a distance by cable & telegraph & telephone & or broadcasting
Outsourcing
Polytheism
Urban Centers
Telecommunications
12. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Regulations
Indigenous
Latitude
Service Industries
13. An area's original inhabitants
Monarchy
Judaism
Nuclear
Aborigine
14. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Steam Power
Globalization
Global Trade Patterns
Literacy Rate
15. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Infant Mortality Rate
Weather
Russification
Urbanization
16. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Outsourcing
United Nations (UN)
Island
Weather
17. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Standard of living
Rain Shadow Effect
Hemisphere
Connectivity
18. 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
Command Economy
Communism
Earthquakes
Tornado
19. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Oligarchy
Ecotourism
Pandemic
Manufacturing
20. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Ideology
Primary Economic Activities
Phenomenon
Birthrate
21. Migration FROM a location
Emigration
Domestic
Subcontinent
Tsunami
22. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Monsoon
Hemisphere
Nationality
Sikhism
23. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Homogenous
Death Rate
Nationalism
Fault
24. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Leeward
Pull Factors
Meridian
Proximity
25. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Doldrums
Global Warming
Population Distribution
Renewable Resources
26. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Atheism
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
El Nino
Patriotism
27. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Pandemic
Tertiary Economic Activities
Aborigine
Internet
28. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Capital
Eutrophication
Command Economy
Christianity
29. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Nationalism
Scarcity
Islam
Nonrenewable Resources
30. Selling and buying on the internet
E-commerce
Westernization
Doldrums
Subsidized
31. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Multiculturalism
Nonrenewable Resources
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Life Expectancy
32. A place united by a specific characteristics
Christianity
Relative Location
Region
More Developed Country
33. The movement of people into one country from another
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Prime Meridian
Manufacturing
Immigration
34. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Desalinization
Subsistence Farming
Rain Shadow Effect
Terracing
35. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Internet
Life Expectancy
Human Geography
Scarcity
36. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Newly Industrialized Country
Commercial Agriculture
Sustainable Development
Sikhism
37. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Formal Region
Global Warming
Innovation
Nationality
38. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Primary Economic Activities
Secondary Economic Activities
E-commerce
Continental Drift
39. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Patterns of Settlement
Topography
Emigration
Commercial Industry
40. Self-rule
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Rain Shadow Effect
Pull Factors
Sovereignty
41. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Elevation
Pandemic
Equator
Patriotism
42. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Voting Patterns
Regulations
Infrastructure
Functional Region
43. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Totalitarian System
World Trade Organization
Terracing
Island
44. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Collective Farm
Manufacturing
Global Trade Patterns
Culture
45. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Global Trade Patterns
Topography
Christianity
Desalinization
46. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Outsourcing
Evaporation
Cohesiveness
47. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Commercial Agriculture
Urbanization
Sustainable Development
Manufacturing
48. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Monotheism
Voting Patterns
Commercial Industry
Urbanization
49. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Pull Factors
Evaporation
Autocracy
Customs
50. A socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world whose economies have not yet reached First World status but have outpaced their developing counterparts
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Country
Theocracy
Archipelago