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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; existss in only a few parts of the world
Monarchy
Traditional Economy
Standard of living
Absolute Location
2. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Totalitarian System
Columbian Exchange
Weather
Embargo
3. Technological and economical growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area
Sikhism
Nuclear
Plate Tectonics
Sustainable Development
4. A region defined by a common characteristic & such as production of a product
Elevation
El Nino
Formal Region
Service Industries
5. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Culture
Patterns of Settlement
International
Scarcity
6. A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Population Pyramid
Primary Economic Activities
Christianity
More Developed Country
7. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Ecosystem
Patterns of Settlement
Ethnic group
Plate Tectonics
8. The percentage of people in a given place who can read and write
Elevation
Gross Domestic Product
Nuclear
Literacy Rate
9. Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the earth
Glacier
Service Industries
Free Enterprise Economic System
Christianity
10. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Diversity
Fold
Hemisphere
Population Density
11. Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids which damages buildings forests & and crops & and kills wildlife
Periphaler
Less Developed Country
Indigenous
Acid Rain
12. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Latitude
Doldrums
Genocide
Ecosystem
13. Use: the act of using
Dynasty
Subcontinent
Utilization
Subcontinent
14. Society based on equality in which workers would control industrial production
Communism
Socioeconomic Status
Traditional Economy
Fault
15. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Ecosystem
Primary Economic Activities
Civil War
Death Rate
16. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Hydrosphere
Rain Shadow Effect
Leeward
Drought
17. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Mantle
Oral Tradition
Drought
Global Warming
18. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Islam
Periphaler
El Nino
Fold
19. An imaginary line on the earth's surface equidistant from the North and South Pole which divides the earth into hemispheres
Ethnic Cleansing
El Nino
Life Expectancy
Equator
20. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
African Union (AU)
Hurricane
Globalization
Infrastructure
21. The sector of the economy that consists intellectual activities such as government & culture & libraries & scientific research & education
Autocracy
Sustainable Development
Cultural Divergence
Quaternary Economic Activities
22. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Demography
Telecommunications
Utilization
Hemisphere
23. Used of organisms (especillay of different species) living together ut not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Ecotourism
Hinduism
North American Free Trade Agreement
Symbiotic
24. The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society
Domestic
Monarchy
Infant Mortality Rate
Biosphere
25. A widespread exchange of animals & plants & culture & human populations & diseases & and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Utilization
Columbian Exchange
Dynasty
Vertical Climate Zones
26. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
World Trade Organization
Mantle
Connectivity
Flood
27. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Ideology
Outsourcing
Less Developed Country
Terrorism
28. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Subsistence Farming
Phenomenon
Distribution
Plate Tectonics
29. A business that employs workers in their homes
Hurricane
Commercial Agriculture
Westernization
Cottage Industry
30. The way the settlement is arranged and its physical appearance of the settlement
Patterns of Settlement
Commodity
Subcontinent
Connectivity
31. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Command Economy
Topography
Pull Factors
Population Density
32. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Human Geography
Islam
Terrorism
Sikhism
33. Location in relation to other places
Relative Location
Leeward
Death Rate
Phenomenon
34. Migration FROM a location
Emigration
Grid System
Island
Socialism
35. All phenomena that are not artificial; happen in nature
Distribution
Field Interviews
Utilization
Phenomenon
36. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Voting Patterns
Service Industries
Civil War
Homogenous
37. Political philosophy in which the government owns the means of production
Less Developed Country
Socialism
GPS
Geopolitical
38. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Spatial Diffusion
Scarcity
Capitalism
Traditional Economy
39. A large and densely populated urban area
Population Pyramid
Monarchy
Island
Urban Centers
40. 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
Quaternary Economic Activities
Ideology
Pandemic
International
41. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Desalinization
Less Developed Country
Subsistence Farming
Field Interviews
42. An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land
Desalinization
Water Cycle
Terracing
Flood
43. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Literacy Rate
Grid System
European Union (EU)
Phenomenon
44. Indicator of level of development for each country & constructed by United Nations & combining income & literacy & education & and life expectancy
Acid Rain
Human Development Index
African Union (AU)
Domestic
45. An area of land surrounded by water
Infant Mortality Rate
Global Trade Patterns
Grid System
Island
46. In 19th Century Russia & a government program that required everyone in the empire to speak Russian and to become a Christian
Polytheism
Ecosystem
Russification
Hinduism
47. A religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions & beliefs & and practices based on Siddhartha Gautama known as the Buddha
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Bubonic Plague
Buddhism
Monotheism
48. The pattern of population in a country & a continent & or the world
Hinduism
Population Distribution
Minority
Hinduism
49. The distribution of ideas & products & culture & technology & innovation & languages and so on across space to other people
Spatial Diffusion
Literacy Rate
United Nations (UN)
Ideology
50. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Globalization
Proximity
Political Boundaries
El Nino