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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Subsistence Farming
Less Developed Country
Longitude
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
2. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Domestic
Christianity
Totalitarian System
Command Economy
3. Used in farming to cultivate sloped land - decreases erosion and surface run-off
Physical Geography
Domestic
Prime Meridian
Terracing
4. The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources
Immigration
Scarcity
Megalopolis
Polytheism
5. The effect of a natural hazard like a flood & tornado & hurricane & volcanic eruption earthquake & landslide & or tsunami which leads to financial & environmental & or human losses
Eutrophication
Sustainable Development
Cottage Industry
Natural Disaster
6. One of seven large landmasses on the Earth
Ethnic Cleansing
Continent
Autocracy
Demographic Indicators
7. The demarcation line that separates countries from each other or states or provinces within each country
Glacier
Grid System
Terracing
Political Boundaries
8. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Prime Meridian
Population Density
Leeward
Political Boundaries
9. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer
Population Density
Ethnic group
Command Economy
Judaism
10. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Sovereignty
United Nations (UN)
Equator
Judaism
11. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Steam Power
Doldrums
Totalitarian System
Dynasty
12. The statistical characteristics of a population
Push Factors
Demographic Indicators
Topography
Tertiary Economic Activities
13. A factor of production that is not wanted for itself & but for its ability to help in producing other goods
North American Free Trade Agreement
Capital
Precipitation
Meridian
14. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Desalinization
Functional Region
Monarchy
Less Developed Country
15. The second largest religion and the belief of Allah & which is articulated in the Qur'an was brought by the Prophet Muhammad
Subsistence Farming
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Islam
Theocracy
16. Level of income and education
Socioeconomic Status
North American Free Trade Agreement
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Islam
17. Location in relation to other places
Newly Industrialized Country
Connectivity
More Developed Country
Relative Location
18. Native to a place
Absolute Location
Indigenous
Infrastructure
Hurricane
19. Also called cultural geography; the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments
Human Geography
Judaism
Continental Drift
Free Trade Zone
20. An economic system based on free enterprise & in which businesses are privately owned & and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
Market Economy
Region
Distribution
Deficit
21. An area's original inhabitants
Physical Geography
Aborigine
Functional Region
Clan
22. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Natural Disaster
Genocide
Commercial Agriculture
Islam
23. Moisture that falls to the earth as rain & hail & sleet & or snow
Geopolitical
Precipitation
GIS
Greenhouse Effect
24. 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
Demography
Monotheism
Innovation
Ideology
25. Level of income and education
Globalization
Buddhism
Elevation
Socioeconomic Status
26. 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
Desalinization
Ethnic group
Homogenous
Precipitation
27. Migration FROM a location
Emigration
Free Enterprise Economic System
Secondary Economic Activities
Culture
28. A frequent windless area near the Equator
Nonrenewable Resources
Doldrums
Capital
Telecommunications
29. The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the Prime Meridian
Demography
Longitude
Formal Region
Subsistence Farming
30. The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat & thereby warming the earth
Population Distribution
Greenhouse Effect
Standard of living
Service Industries
31. An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand
Gross Domestic Product
Perceptual Region
Greenhouse Effect
Surplus
32. The part of the Earth where life exists
Autocracy
Biosphere
Demography
Global Warming
33. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Latitude
International
Clan
Topography
34. The production of crops for sale & crops intended for widespread distribution to wholesaler or retail outlets
Political Boundaries
Outsourcing
Islam
Commercial Agriculture
35. Belief in multiple Gods
Polytheism
Command Economy
Secondary Economic Activities
Nuclear
36. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Civil War
Relative Location
Newly Industrialized Country
Megalopolis
37. Gradual warming of the earth and its atmosphere that may be caused in part by pollution and an increase in the greenhouse effect
Biome
Global Warming
Steam Power
Manufacturing
38. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Cultural Divergence
Prime Meridian
More Developed Country
Embargo
39. Goods produced for sale
Subcontinent
Renewable Resources
Commodity
Climate
40. Large landmass that is part of a continent but still distinct from it & such as India
Subcontinent
Domestic
Cottage Industry
Commercial Industry
41. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Doldrums
Mantle
Weather
Pandemic
42. 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
Welfare
Biosphere
Phenomenon
43. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
Ecosystem
Patterns of Settlement
Manufacturing
Leeward
44. The height of a location above sea level
Elevation
Clan
Glacier
Voting Patterns
45. A large and densely populated urban area
Flood
Urban Centers
Terracing
Population Distribution
46. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
More Developed Country
Physical Geography
Subsistence Farming
Population Distribution
47. System of government in which a small group holds power
Phenomenon
Traditional Economy
E-commerce
Oligarchy
48. 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
Continental Drift
Acid Rain
Autocracy
49. A ruling house or continuing family of rulers & especially in China
Dynasty
Rain Shadow Effect
Aerial Photographs
Free Enterprise Economic System
50. Use: the act of using
Life Expectancy
Utilization
Free Enterprise Economic System
United Nations (UN)