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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Nuclear
Eutrophication
Erosion
Life Expectancy
2. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Birthrate
Field Interviews
Isthmus
Nuclear
3. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Tertiary Economic Activities
Symbiotic
Terracing
Nationalism
4. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Infant Mortality Rate
Nationality
Innovation
Geopolitical
5. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
Capital
Minority
Life Expectancy
Demography
6. Dry area found on the leeward side of a mountain range
Subsistence Farming
Rain Shadow Effect
Command Economy
Demography
7. The movement of people from rural areas into cities
Urbanization
Embargo
Less Developed Country
Globalization
8. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Geopolitical
Distribution
Welfare
Perceptual Region
9. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Earthquakes
Mantle
Acid Rain
Manufacturing
10. The part of the Earth where life exists
Biosphere
Equator
Literacy Rate
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
11. A similar climatic condition on the Earth such as communities or plants & animals & and soil organisms
Biome
Island
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Windward
12. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Gross Domestic Product
European Union (EU)
Birthrate
Equator
13. A sociological group that does not make up a politically dominate voting majority of the total population of a given society
Civil War
Terrorism
Minority
Patterns of Settlement
14. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Suburb
Culture
Meridian
Phenomenon
15. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Embargo
Dynasty
Population Density
Clan
16. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Tornado
Unitary System
Doldrums
Immigration
17. A rule or directive made and maintained by an authority
Eutrophication
Regulations
Commercial Industry
Evaporation
18. The average number of years an individual can be expected to live given current conditions
Life Expectancy
Steam Power
Ecotourism
Outsourcing
19. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Greenhouse Effect
Patterns of Settlement
Terrorism
Renewable Resources
20. A region defined by popular feelings and images rater than by objective data
Minority
Water Cycle
Commodity
Perceptual Region
21. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Judaism
More Developed Country
Diversity
22. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Manufacturing
Geopolitical
Refugee
Bubonic Plague
23. Facing away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
Indigenous
Public Policies
Tarifff
Leeward
24. Self-rule
Scarcity
Sovereignty
Dictatorship
Elevation
25. A ban on trade
Drought
Embargo
Pull Factors
Socialism
26. Goods produced for sale
Commodity
Free Enterprise Economic System
Federal System
Command Economy
27. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Dictatorship
Outsourcing
Spatial Diffusion
Christianity
28. All the plants or plant life of a place & taken as a whole
Atmosphere
Lithosphere
Archipelago
Vegetation
29. Belief in multiple Gods
Isthmus
Patriotism
Tertiary Economic Activities
Polytheism
30. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Federal System
Embargo
Push Factors
Acid Rain
31. Powered by a steam engine
Steam Power
Cottage Industry
Latitude
Subcontinent
32. The expelling from a country or killing of rival ethnic groups
Monsoon
Life Expectancy
Ethnic Cleansing
Region
33. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Field Interviews
Civil War
Geopolitical
Desalinization
34. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Civil War
Drought
Dictatorship
Refugee
35. The height of a location above sea level
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Elevation
Tornado
Spatial Diffusion
36. Use: the act of using
Cottage Industry
Utilization
African Union (AU)
Leeward
37. The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface & generally through agriculture & mining & fishing & or forestry
Tornado
Primary Economic Activities
Service Industries
Polytheism
38. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount
Deficit
Windward
Democracy
Christianity
39. The health & happiness & and fortunes of a person or group
Precipitation
Welfare
Bubonic Plague
Central American Free Trade Agreement
40. In Asia & seasonal winds that brings warm & moist air from the oceans in summer and cold & dry air from inland in winter
Culture
Monsoon
Demographic Indicators
Less Developed Country
41. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Republic
Prime Meridian
Civil War
Death Rate
42. A business that employs workers in their homes
Cottage Industry
Infant Mortality Rate
Primary Economic Activities
Westernization
43. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Patterns of Settlement
Islam
Sovereignty
World Trade Organization
44. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Water Cycle
Vertical Climate Zones
Buddhism
Utilization
45. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
Voting Patterns
Nuclear
Ocean Currents
Greenhouse Effect
46. Business that provides a service instead of making goods
Secondary Economic Activities
Federal System
Service Industries
El Nino
47. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Gross Domestic Product
Phenomenon
Homogenous
Rain Shadow Effect
48. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Oligarchy
Literacy Rate
Infrastructure
Demography
49. Of the same or similar kind or nature
Phenomenon
Homogenous
Nationalism
Free Trade Zone
50. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope
Russification
Vertical Climate Zones
Periphaler
Globalization