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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A union consisting of 53 African States whose objectives are to: Accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent - Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples - Achieve p
African Union (AU)
Customs
Islam
Desalinization
2. Powered by a steam engine
Nationalism
Steam Power
Traditional Economy
Vegetation
3. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Republic
Rain Shadow Effect
Customs
Commercial Industry
4. Nearness in space & time & or relationship
Cultural Hearth
Collective Farm
Proximity
Unitary System
5. The movement of people into one country from another
Ocean Currents
North American Free Trade Agreement
Immigration
Grid System
6. An international body that oversees trade agreements and settles trade disputes among countries
Steam Power
Civil War
Oligarchy
World Trade Organization
7. The number of births per year for every 1000 people
Climate
GIS
Sustainable Development
Birthrate
8. The watery areas of the earth & including ocean & lakes & rivers & and other bodies of water
Topography
Nonrenewable Resources
Hydrosphere
Theocracy
9. System of government in which a small group holds power
Human Geography
Nationalism
Oligarchy
Vertical Climate Zones
10. Love for or devotion to one's country
Diversity
Traditional Economy
Spatial Diffusion
Patriotism
11. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Earthquakes
Isthmus
Atheism
Commercial Industry
12. Support (an organization or activity) financially
Connectivity
Subsidized
Lithosphere
Cultural Divergence
13. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Natural Disaster
Ethnic group
Dictatorship
Republic
14. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Domestic
Cultural Convergence
Meridian
Outsourcing
15. Economic system in which economic decisions about production and distribution are made by some central authority
Erosion
Public Policies
Command Economy
Birthrate
16. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
El Nino
Theocracy
Steam Power
Fault
17. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
Monsoon
United Nations (UN)
Isthmus
E-commerce
18. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Continental Drift
Population Pyramid
Infrastructure
Russification
19. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Sustainable Development
Christianity
Subsistence Farming
Aborigine
20. A socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world whose economies have not yet reached First World status but have outpaced their developing counterparts
Climate
Newly Industrialized Country
Telecommunications
Socioeconomic Status
21. The part of the Earth where life exists
Clan
Population Density
Water Cycle
Biosphere
22. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Death Rate
Patriotism
Regulations
Desalinization
23. A line that forms the boundary of an ara: a perimeter - the other most part or region within a precise boundary
Periphaler
Fault
Political Boundaries
Prime Meridian
24. Stories passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Bubonic Plague
Monarchy
Deficit
Oral Tradition
25. A country that is at a relatively early stage in the process of economic development
Life Expectancy
Tornado
Less Developed Country
Continental Drift
26. The number of deaths per year for every 1000 people
Plate Tectonics
Death Rate
Ethnic group
Standard of living
27. 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
Urbanization
Ethnic Cleansing
Nationality
28. A government in which all key powers are given to the national or central government
Death Rate
Monsoon
Connectivity
Unitary System
29. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure & consisting of dense & hot rock
Capital
Greenhouse Effect
Tornado
Mantle
30. The areas where the climate changes by altitude
Culture
Vertical Climate Zones
North American Free Trade Agreement
Utilization
31. A system that determines the precise position of something on Earth through a series of satellites & tracking stations & and receivers
Ocean Currents
GPS
Geopolitical
Voting Patterns
32. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Precipitation
Relative Location
Erosion
Continental Drift
33. Something or a company that involves more than one country
International
Ecosystem
Hydrosphere
Tornado
34. Transition from an agricultural society to one based on industry
Global Warming
Continent
Urban Centers
Industrialization
35. Use: the act of using
Topography
Connectivity
El Nino
Utilization
36. Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
GIS
Pandemic
Monotheism
Drought
37. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Polytheism
Nationalism
World Trade
Primary Economic Activities
38. A union consisting of 53 African States whose objectives are to: Accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of the continent - Promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples - Achieve p
African Union (AU)
Climate
Perceptual Region
Human Development Index
39. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Manufacturing
Mantle
Market Economy
Eutrophication
40. Half of a sphere or globe & as in the earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Hemisphere
Earthquakes
Aerial Photographs
Commodity
41. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Commodity
Standard of living
Megalopolis
Urbanization
42. Fieldwork that involves conducting research in the community by distributing questionnaires & taking photographs & recording observations & interviewing citizens & and collecting samples. Primary sources of information
Political Boundaries
Command Economy
Field Interviews
Ethnic Cleansing
43. Government in which a single individual possesses the power and authority to rule
Monsoon
Absolute Location
Vertical Climate Zones
Autocracy
44. (OPEC) a collective of countries founded in 1960 that choose to collaborate in order to manage the exportation of their crude oil to the rest of the world
Cohesiveness
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Fault
Innovation
45. The frequent repetition of an act; to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Latitude
Atheism
Customs
Genocide
46. Level of income and education
Westernization
Human Geography
Demography
Socioeconomic Status
47. Belief in multiple Gods
Urbanization
Terrorism
Polytheism
Nationalism
48. Resources that have an unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans
Renewable Resources
Biosphere
Human Development Index
Totalitarian System
49. An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for it
Eutrophication
Capitalism
Hydrosphere
Republic
50. Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Lithosphere
Earthquakes
Vertical Climate Zones