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World Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing & transforming & and assembling raw materials
Monarchy
Federal System
Secondary Economic Activities
Ethnic group
2. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
World Trade
Republic
Birthrate
Demography
3. The statistical characteristics of a population
Cultural Hearth
Collective Farm
Demographic Indicators
Free Trade Zone
4. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Spatial Diffusion
Democracy
Relative Location
Dynasty
5. The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
Urban Centers
Autocracy
Desalinization
Clan
6. Powered by a steam engine
Democracy
Steam Power
Spatial Diffusion
El Nino
7. Trade agreement made in 1994 by Canada & the United States & and Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement
Steam Power
Water Cycle
Christianity
8. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
Service Industries
Collective Farm
Theocracy
Scarcity
9. A free trade agreement between the United States & Costa Rica & El Salvador & Guatemala & Honduras & Nicaragua & and later the Dominican Republic in 2004
Sovereignty
Tertiary Economic Activities
Aborigine
Central American Free Trade Agreement
10. 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
Collective Farm
Ethnic group
Refugee
Flood
11. An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
Erosion
Political Boundaries
Dictatorship
Leeward
12. 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
Oligarchy
Cultural Convergence
Westernization
13. The steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
GIS
Monsoon
Ocean Currents
Acid Rain
14. Belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
Telecommunications
Nationalism
Earthquakes
Suburb
15. The deliberate and systematic destruction & in whole or in part & of an ethnic & racial & religious & or national group
Infant Mortality Rate
Dictatorship
Genocide
Judaism
16. The renewal or improvement of an already existing technology
Cultural Divergence
Innovation
Elevation
Urban Centers
17. The meridian designated as 0 longitude
Prime Meridian
Infant Mortality Rate
Doldrums
Ocean Currents
18. Facing toward the direction from which the wind is blowing
Population Density
Rain Shadow Effect
Windward
Formal Region
19. Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind & flowing water & or glaciers
Industrialization
Free Enterprise Economic System
Emigration
Erosion
20. The complex community of interdependent living things in a given environment
Hemisphere
Plate Tectonics
Aborigine
Ecosystem
21. Process by which a body of water becomes too rich in dissolved nutrients & leading to plant growth that depletes oxygen
Eutrophication
Terrorism
Birthrate
Outsourcing
22. A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the Bible
Christianity
Glacier
Clan
Proximity
23. (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
Scarcity
Evaporation
Life Expectancy
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
24. An international organization of countries set up in 1945 in succession to the League of Nations & to promote international peace
United Nations (UN)
Indigenous
Urban Centers
Hinduism
25. The basic urban necessities like streets and utilities
Infrastructure
Functional Region
Suburb
Literacy Rate
26. Any system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Doldrums
Vegetation
Demography
Demographic Indicators
27. An organization whose goal is to unite Europe so that goods & services & and workers can move freely among member countries
European Union (EU)
Monsoon
Glacier
World Trade Organization
28. Pattern formed as the lines of latitude and longitude cross one another
Voting Patterns
Grid System
Global Warming
Cultural Hearth
29. A political system where the state & usually under the control of a single political person
Primary Economic Activities
Leeward
Totalitarian System
Greenhouse Effect
30. Of or relating to the nucleus of an atom
Tertiary Economic Activities
Nuclear
Outsourcing
Genocide
31. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface
Distribution
Voting Patterns
Quaternary Economic Activities
Pull Factors
32. Producing just enough food for a family or a village to survive
Cultural Hearth
Subsistence Farming
Human Geography
Continent
33. Condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time
Totalitarian System
Market Economy
Weather
Population Distribution
34. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community
Sovereignty
Aborigine
Standard of living
Global Warming
35. A war between organized groups within the same nation-state & or republic
Cohesiveness
Diversity
Traditional Economy
Civil War
36. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map & indicating their relative positions and elevations
Nationality
GIS
Topography
Vegetation
37. The relation between politics and territory and compromises the art and practice of analyzing & proscribing & forecasting & and using political power over a given territory
Windward
Tertiary Economic Activities
Geopolitical
Grid System
38. A country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development
Connectivity
Unitary System
Market Economy
More Developed Country
39. A large & powerful windstorm that forms over warm ocean waters
Prime Meridian
Subsistence Farming
Hurricane
Capitalism
40. The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for proift with minimal government regulation
Natural Disaster
Terrorism
Tarifff
Free Enterprise Economic System
41. One of the oldest monotheistic religions; it is a religion & philosophy and way of life for the Jewish people. Belief in God as the written and oral Torah
Formal Region
Cultural Convergence
Judaism
Atheism
42. A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region
Indigenous
GPS
El Nino
Cohesiveness
43. The study of Earth's physical features
Monarchy
Weather
Genocide
Physical Geography
44. The use of machines & tools & and labor to produce goods for use or sale
E-commerce
Monsoon
Manufacturing
Meridian
45. A layer of gases that surrounds the earth
Manufacturing
Subsidized
Manufacturing
Atmosphere
46. An area of a country where some normal trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in hopes of attracting new business
Totalitarian System
Distribution
Free Trade Zone
Infrastructure
47. Obtain (goods or services) from an outside supplier & esp. in place of an internal source
Embargo
Outsourcing
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Infant Mortality Rate
48. The result of the restriction of a culture from the outside cultural influences
Patriotism
Secondary Economic Activities
Cultural Divergence
Demographic Indicators
49. Tourism based on concern for the environment
Leeward
Urban Centers
Hemisphere
Ecotourism
50. The force of bringing group members closer together
Greenhouse Effect
Symbiotic
Fold
Cohesiveness