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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Functional Region
Population Pyramid
Westernization
Birthrate
2. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Socialism
Homogenous
Clan
European Union (EU)
3. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Minority
Minority
Sovereignty
Vertical Climate Zones
4. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
African Union (AU)
Proximity
Commercial Industry
Equator
5. One who flees his or her home for safety
Refugee
World Trade Organization
Death Rate
Renewable Resources
6. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Absolute Location
Ecosystem
Manufacturing
Rain Shadow Effect
7. Location in relation to other places
Hemisphere
Renewable Resources
Relative Location
Island
8. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Public Policies
Homogenous
Political Boundaries
Distribution
9. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Market Economy
Socioeconomic Status
Symbiotic
Cultural Hearth
10. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Oligarchy
Functional Region
Democracy
Minority
11. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Diversity
Atmosphere
Socioeconomic Status
Ethnic Cleansing
12. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Subcontinent
Aborigine
Russification
Atheism
13. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Telecommunications
Desalinization
Weather
Mantle
14. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Secondary Economic Activities
Multiculturalism
More Developed Country
Continental Drift
15. Weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time
Infrastructure
Climate
Biosphere
Atheism
16. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Standard of living
Sikhism
World Trade
17. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Newly Industrialized Country
Less Developed Country
Domestic
Geopolitical
18. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Flood
Spatial Diffusion
Vertical Climate Zones
Autocracy
19. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Eutrophication
Water Cycle
El Nino
Meridian
20. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Ecosystem
Culture
Greenhouse Effect
Scarcity
21. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Acid Rain
Sikhism
Sustainable Development
Public Policies
22. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Utilization
Push Factors
Aborigine
Cultural Divergence
23. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Atheism
Sustainable Development
Glacier
Absolute Location
24. Taking photos of the ground from an elevated position on a plane or satellite
Plate Tectonics
Aerial Photographs
Commodity
Sustainable Development
25. (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
Lithosphere
Physical Geography
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Ecotourism
26. A tax on imports or exports
Telecommunications
Theocracy
Outsourcing
Tarifff
27. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Market Economy
Birthrate
Embargo
Weather
28. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
International
Scarcity
Weather
Terrorism
29. The state or quality of being connected or connective; the benefits of global connectivity
Socioeconomic Status
Suburb
Connectivity
Theocracy
30. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Meridian
Megalopolis
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Earthquakes
31. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Doldrums
Immigration
Natural Disaster
Collective Farm
32. Factors that induce people to leave residences
Topography
Push Factors
Theocracy
Equator
33. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Longitude
Totalitarian System
Doldrums
Mantle
34. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Desalinization
Prime Meridian
Subcontinent
Minority
35. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Internet
Ocean Currents
Democracy
Greenhouse Effect
36. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Clan
Socialism
Leeward
Desalinization
37. 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
Ethnic group
United Nations (UN)
Culture
Christianity
38. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Terrorism
Theocracy
Fault
Rain Shadow Effect
39. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
Socialism
Oligarchy
Continental Drift
Lithosphere
40. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Erosion
Nationality
Scarcity
Central American Free Trade Agreement
41. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Nuclear
Region
Civil War
Central American Free Trade Agreement
42. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Steam Power
Field Interviews
Climate
Voting Patterns
43. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Plate Tectonics
Distribution
Atheism
Demography
44. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Russification
Buddhism
Meridian
Commodity
45. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Tornado
GIS
Hinduism
Water Cycle
46. A system of ideas and ideals & esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political policy; the ideas and manner of thinking of a group social class & or individual
Deficit
Capitalism
Ideology
Perceptual Region
47. A natural resource which cannot be produced & grown & generated & or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Urban Centers
Communism
Westernization
48. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Capitalism
Regulations
Autocracy
Monsoon
49. The movement of people into one country from another
Human Geography
Physical Geography
Immigration
Meridian
50. The ownership and management of companies & factories & etc...for the activity of providing goods and services for financial gain
Commercial Industry
Commodity
Patterns of Settlement
Fold