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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Civil War
Functional Region
Latitude
Emigration
2. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Monsoon
Greenhouse Effect
Bubonic Plague
Doldrums
3. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Global Warming
Grid System
Demography
Precipitation
4. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Fault
Democracy
Desalinization
Elevation
5. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Islam
Subsistence Farming
Free Enterprise Economic System
Homogenous
6. Level of income and education
Absolute Location
European Union (EU)
Socioeconomic Status
Push Factors
7. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Perceptual Region
Population Distribution
Political Boundaries
Aborigine
8. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Westernization
Bubonic Plague
Innovation
Surplus
9. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Cultural Divergence
Phenomenon
Water Cycle
Public Policies
10. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Steam Power
Surplus
Weather
Homogenous
11. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
World Trade Organization
Population Distribution
Nationality
Topography
12. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Homogenous
Doldrums
Longitude
Hurricane
13. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Biome
Distribution
Internet
Unitary System
14. Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Flood
Cultural Convergence
Minority
Nationality
15. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Earthquakes
Cottage Industry
Outsourcing
Manufacturing
16. The sector of the economy that consists intellectual activities such as government & culture & libraries & scientific research & education
Global Warming
Urban Centers
Quaternary Economic Activities
Command Economy
17. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Demography
Functional Region
Socialism
Atmosphere
18. Belief in multiple Gods
Topography
Mantle
Polytheism
Culture
19. Love for or devotion to one's country
Patriotism
Embargo
World Trade Organization
Multiculturalism
20. Pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries
Longitude
Doldrums
Domestic
United Nations (UN)
21. The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance north and south of the equator
Proximity
Utilization
Latitude
Hydrosphere
22. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Atheism
Welfare
Dictatorship
Russification
23. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Spatial Diffusion
Push Factors
International
Relative Location
24. The height of a location above sea level
Vertical Climate Zones
Hemisphere
Elevation
Subcontinent
25. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Global Warming
Isthmus
Polytheism
Democracy
26. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Atheism
Autocracy
Welfare
Hurricane
27. A business that employs workers in their homes
Dynasty
Monarchy
More Developed Country
Cottage Industry
28. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Doldrums
Desalinization
Formal Region
Periphaler
29. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
GIS
Urban Centers
Standard of living
Patterns of Settlement
30. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Dictatorship
Infant Mortality Rate
Theocracy
Welfare
31. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Islam
Proximity
Voting Patterns
European Union (EU)
32. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Diversity
Immigration
Surplus
Deficit
33. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Emigration
Pull Factors
Literacy Rate
Region
34. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Newly Industrialized Country
Hinduism
North American Free Trade Agreement
Terrorism
35. A bend in layers or rock & sometimes caused by plate movement
Tornado
Fold
Topography
World Trade
36. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
E-commerce
Greenhouse Effect
Genocide
Population Density
37. Way of life of a group of people who share beliefs and similar customs
Culture
Infant Mortality Rate
Water Cycle
Public Policies
38. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Welfare
Columbian Exchange
39. The appreciation & acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures & applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place & usually at the organizational level
Multiculturalism
More Developed Country
GPS
Scarcity
40. The statistical characteristics of a population
Columbian Exchange
Island
Terracing
Demographic Indicators
41. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Bubonic Plague
Christianity
Mantle
Life Expectancy
42. An area's original inhabitants
Buddhism
Aborigine
Domestic
Gross Domestic Product
43. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims
Monarchy
El Nino
Terrorism
Autocracy
44. Powered by a steam engine
Culture
Absolute Location
Field Interviews
Steam Power
45. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Biosphere
Terracing
Geopolitical
Windward
46. A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15gh century by Guru Nanak
Cultural Convergence
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Sikhism
Scarcity
47. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Hemisphere
Hinduism
Biome
48. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Industrialization
Christianity
Terrorism
Monsoon
49. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Sikhism
Vertical Climate Zones
Oral Tradition
Surplus
50. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
El Nino
Demographic Indicators
Global Warming
Minority