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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Lithosphere
Multiculturalism
Primary Economic Activities
Longitude
2. The growing similarity between national cultures & including the beliefs & values & aspirations & and the preferences of consumers
Distribution
E-commerce
Cultural Convergence
Theocracy
3. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Telecommunications
Homogenous
Subsistence Farming
Nationalism
4. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Free Trade Zone
Ocean Currents
Cohesiveness
Doldrums
5. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Continental Drift
Sustainable Development
Absolute Location
Aerial Photographs
6. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
Political Boundaries
Cultural Hearth
Evaporation
7. Level of income and education
Socioeconomic Status
Global Trade Patterns
Renewable Resources
Suburb
8. Native to a place
Indigenous
Prime Meridian
Demographic Indicators
Utilization
9. System of government in which a small group holds power
United Nations (UN)
Oligarchy
Manufacturing
Immigration
10. A large and densely populated urban area
Urban Centers
Meridian
Ethnic group
Columbian Exchange
11. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Death Rate
Vegetation
Theocracy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
12. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Oligarchy
Hemisphere
Cultural Hearth
Commodity
13. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Monsoon
Judaism
Sikhism
Internet
14. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Democracy
Immigration
E-commerce
Autocracy
15. The 3rd largest religion with 1 billion believers & found primarily in South Asia and includes the belief in Karma & Dharma & and Reincarnation
Mantle
Ethnic Cleansing
United Nations (UN)
Hinduism
16. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Cultural Hearth
Birthrate
Glacier
Demography
17. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Nonrenewable Resources
Dictatorship
Polytheism
Traditional Economy
18. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Population Distribution
Acid Rain
Evaporation
Telecommunications
19. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Symbiotic
Polytheism
Water Cycle
Totalitarian System
20. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Population Distribution
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Hearth
Clan
21. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Doldrums
Russification
Political Boundaries
Cultural Convergence
22. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Cultural Divergence
Continent
Socioeconomic Status
Latitude
23. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Patterns of Settlement
Hurricane
Population Distribution
Capital
24. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Socioeconomic Status
Doldrums
Manufacturing
Internet
25. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
Prime Meridian
Connectivity
North American Free Trade Agreement
Cottage Industry
26. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Absolute Location
Push Factors
Innovation
Socioeconomic Status
27. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Aerial Photographs
Dictatorship
Glacier
Socialism
28. Love for or devotion to one's country
E-commerce
Patriotism
Human Geography
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
29. An intergovernmental military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party
Evaporation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Doldrums
Infant Mortality Rate
30. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Acid Rain
Natural Disaster
Service Industries
Spatial Diffusion
31. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Buddhism
Communism
Socialism
Global Trade Patterns
32. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
European Union (EU)
Windward
Monotheism
Demographic Indicators
33. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Command Economy
Isthmus
Renewable Resources
Ideology
34. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Free Trade Zone
Ethnic Cleansing
Gross Domestic Product
Traditional Economy
35. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Ecosystem
Monarchy
Monotheism
36. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Manufacturing
Voting Patterns
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Precipitation
37. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Minority
Ocean Currents
Proximity
Cultural Convergence
38. Goods produced for sale
Islam
Infant Mortality Rate
Human Development Index
Commodity
39. Factors that induce people to move to a new location
Buddhism
Pull Factors
Vertical Climate Zones
Infrastructure
40. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Global Warming
Sikhism
International
Functional Region
41. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Cultural Divergence
Dynasty
Free Enterprise Economic System
Water Cycle
42. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Public Policies
Dynasty
Absolute Location
43. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Commercial Industry
Topography
Leeward
Ocean Currents
44. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Dynasty
Subsidized
European Union (EU)
Diversity
45. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Ecotourism
Geopolitical
Dictatorship
Nationality
46. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Windward
Command Economy
European Union (EU)
Aerial Photographs
47. Trade among multiple countries around the world
Public Policies
Ocean Currents
World Trade
Islam
48. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Longitude
Desalinization
Primary Economic Activities
Global Trade Patterns
49. A crack or break in the earth's crust
Birthrate
Westernization
Human Geography
Fault
50. Assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western culture
Westernization
Pandemic
Embargo
Dictatorship