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Category 1 : 1 Question: What is the transfer of heat in the atmosphere by the upward motion of air? Answer: convection Back to the Board
Category 1 : 2 Question: What is a periodic climatic change that causes the waters off the west coast of South America to warm? Answer: El Nino Back to the Board
Category 1 : 3 Question: What is the name for the warming trend that occurs when gases in the atmosphere trap solar energy? Answer: greenhouse effect Back to the Board
Category 1 : 4 Question: What are the 2 most significant factors in defining different climates? Answer: temperature and precipitation Back to the Board
Category 1 : 5 Question: What is the total of knowledge, shared attitudes, and behaviors of the members of a specific group of people? Answer: culture Back to the Board
Category 2 : 1 Question: What term describes the spread of ideas and customs from one society to another? Answer: diffusion Back to the Board
Category 2 : 2 Question: What is it called when members of one society decide to adopt a custom that they observe in another society? Answer: acculturation Back to the Board
Category 2 : 3 Question: What is the name for a religion that involves the belief in many gods? Answer: Polytheistic Back to the Board
Category 2 : 4 Question: What is a version of a language that includes changes related to class, region, or other cultural changes called? Answer: a dialect Back to the Board
Category 2 : 5 Question: What is the type of government where a king, queen, or ruling family holds political power? Answer: Monarchy Back to the Board
Category 3 : 1 Question: What type of government allows citizens, or their elected representatives, to hold all political power? Answer: Democracy Back to the Board
Category 3 : 2 Question: What is the name for a group of people with a common culture living in a specific location? Answer: Nation Back to the Board
Category 3 : 3 Question: What type of government holds all or nearly all of the political power and means of production? Answer: Communist Back to the Board
Category 3 : 4 Question: What term describes an independent unit occupying a specific area and controlling its internal and external affairs? Answer: state Back to the Board
Category 3 : 5 Question: What term describes a city, along with its suburbs and exurbs? Answer: a metropolitan area Back to the Board
Category 4 : 1 Question: What term describes the dramatic rise in the number of cities and the resultant lifestyle changes? Answer: Urbanization Back to the Board
Category 4 : 2 Question: What mountains are being compared in the following: Mountain 1 is about 80 million years old and rise much higher than Mountain 2. Answer: Mountain 1: Rockies Mountain 2: Appalachians Back to the Board
Category 4 : 3 Question: Name 2 of the 3 lanforms not shared by the US and Canada. Answer: GulfAtlantic coastal plain, Piedmont, and Interior Highlands Back to the Board
Category 4 : 4 Question: What route in the US and Canada is one of the world’s most important shipping routes? Answer: Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway Back to the Board
Category 4 : 5 Question: What is the key feature of a representative democracy? Answer: people elect officials to represent them Back to the Board
Category 5 : 1 Question: What is the name for corporations that are involved in business worldwide? Answer: multinationals Back to the Board
Category 5 : 2 Question: What field do most Americans work in. It includes jobs like info processing, finance, and medicine. Answer: Service Industry Back to the Board
Category 5 : 3 Question: What is the term for a region that includes several large cities, their suburbs, and nearby towns? Answer: Megalopolis Back to the Board
Category 5 : 4 Question: What is the name for an economy that no longer relies on manufacturing for its income? Answer: postindustrial economy Back to the Board
Category 5 : 5 Question: What kind of industry are most Canadians employed in? Answer: Service Back to the Board