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World Geography
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1. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Immigration
Urbanization
Population Distribution
Public Policies
2. An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles
Indigenous
Terracing
Meridian
Commercial Industry
3. Native to a place
Market Economy
Cultural Hearth
Scarcity
Indigenous
4. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Voting Patterns
Evaporation
Market Economy
Scarcity
5. Surface land areas of the earth's crust & including continents and ocean basins
Perceptual Region
Lithosphere
Nonrenewable Resources
GPS
6. 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
Voting Patterns
Cohesiveness
Formal Region
Ethnic group
7. Use: the act of using
European Union (EU)
Global Trade Patterns
Leeward
Utilization
8. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Fault
More Developed Country
Ocean Currents
World Trade
9. 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
Atheism
Patriotism
Republic
10. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Weather
Tornado
Islam
Aborigine
11. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Socioeconomic Status
Subsistence Farming
Primary Economic Activities
Totalitarian System
12. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Perceptual Region
More Developed Country
Tsunami
Public Policies
13. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Quaternary Economic Activities
Capital
Global Trade Patterns
Russification
14. A center where cultures developed from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Cultural Hearth
Patriotism
European Union (EU)
Hemisphere
15. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Equator
Quaternary Economic Activities
Outsourcing
Subsidized
16. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Genocide
Quaternary Economic Activities
Tertiary Economic Activities
African Union (AU)
17. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Leeward
Less Developed Country
North American Free Trade Agreement
Acid Rain
18. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
United Nations (UN)
Monotheism
Death Rate
Dynasty
19. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
Hydrosphere
Equator
North American Free Trade Agreement
Genocide
20. A system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide
Grid System
Monotheism
Internet
Urban Centers
21. 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
Traditional Economy
Ideology
Literacy Rate
Pandemic
22. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Manufacturing
Greenhouse Effect
Subsidized
Ocean Currents
23. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Customs
Gross Domestic Product
Latitude
Secondary Economic Activities
24. 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
Tornado
Public Policies
World Trade
Physical Geography
25. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Capitalism
Command Economy
Emigration
26. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Russification
Homogenous
Commercial Industry
Hydrosphere
27. Under communism & a large & state-owned farm on which farmers received wages plus a share of products and profits; also called a kolkhoz
Primary Economic Activities
Industrialization
Free Trade Zone
Collective Farm
28. An area's original inhabitants
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Patterns of Settlement
Aborigine
Customs
29. A formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue
Voting Patterns
Population Density
Republic
Monotheism
30. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Subsidized
Global Trade Patterns
Sikhism
Elevation
31. The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth
Subsidized
Population Pyramid
Theocracy
Plate Tectonics
32. Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean
Precipitation
Water Cycle
Megalopolis
Subcontinent
33. A form of government in which all political power is passed down to an individual
Newly Industrialized Country
Quaternary Economic Activities
Functional Region
Monarchy
34. A central point and the surrounding territory linked to it
Dictatorship
Functional Region
Globalization
Ethnic group
35. Goods produced for sale
Commodity
Archipelago
Patriotism
Communism
36. Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action (or inaction) taken by the state with regard to a particular issue; laws
Public Policies
Commercial Industry
World Trade Organization
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
37. Selling and buying on the internet
Absolute Location
E-commerce
Refugee
Innovation
38. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
United Nations (UN)
Customs
Ecotourism
Cultural Divergence
39. Tribal community or large group of people related to one another
Capital
Plate Tectonics
Tertiary Economic Activities
Clan
40. The height of a location above sea level
Death Rate
Urbanization
Sikhism
Elevation
41. A disease circulating mainly among small rodents and their fleas. Without treatment & the plague kills about 2/3 infected humans within 4 days
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Political Boundaries
Nuclear
Bubonic Plague
42. The exact position of a place on the earth's surface
Demographic Indicators
Geopolitical
Market Economy
Absolute Location
43. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Ecotourism
El Nino
Periphaler
Perceptual Region
44. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Utilization
Nonrenewable Resources
Democracy
Unitary System
45. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Clan
El Nino
Indigenous
Minority
46. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Cultural Convergence
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Spatial Diffusion
Functional Region
47. The variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region or in the world as a whole
Ethnic group
Sovereignty
Island
Diversity
48. The height of a location above sea level
Collective Farm
Greenhouse Effect
Doldrums
Elevation
49. Love for or devotion to one's country
Ocean Currents
Patriotism
Human Geography
Ethnic Cleansing
50. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Symbiotic
E-commerce
Human Development Index
Republic