Basic geography OP

Question 1

Oasis

Answer 1

Place in the desert where water can be found

Question 2

Oligarchy

Answer 2

Government in which a small group of people rule

Question 3

One-child policy

Answer 3

China’s family planning policy; under this law, many married couples are only allowed to have one child

Question 4

Oni

Answer 4

Yoruba religious leader

Question 5

Opportunity cost

Answer 5

Cost of what you have to give up when making a choice

Question 6

Orbit

Answer 6

Path one object makes as it circles around another

Question 7

Outback

Answer 7

A sparsely inhabited region of Australia with low plateaus and plains

Question 8

Outsourcing

Answer 8

Sending tasks to be done by workers outside a company

Question 9

Overgrazing

Answer 9

So much grazing that plants are killed

Question 10

Ozone layer

Answer 10

Layer of the atmosphere that filters out most of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays

Question 11

Pacific island countries trade agreement (PICTA)

Answer 11

Agreement intended to form a free-trade area among the nations

Question 12

Pacific islands Forum

Answer 12

Intergovernmental organizations that aims to increase cooperation between and represent the interests of Pacific countries

Question 13

Pack ice

Answer 13

Seasonal ice that floats on water rather than being attached to land

Question 14

Pan Africanism

Answer 14

Political and social movement that sought to unite black Africans across the globe

Question 15

Pan Arabism

Answer 15

Idea that all Arabic-speaking countries should cooperate and join together

Question 16

Parliament

Answer 16

British legislature

Question 17

Parliamentary democracy

Answer 17

A democracy in which Parliament chooses the government

Question 18

Parliamentary system

Answer 18

System of government in which voters elect

representatives to the legislature, which then selects the Prime Minister

Question 19

Partition

Answer 19

Splitting a country into two states

Question 20

Patricians

Answer 20

Wealthy aristocrats in ancient Rome

Question 21

Pax Romana

Answer 21

Period of stability in the Roman empire under Augustus

Question 22

Peninsula

Answer 22

Area of land almost completely surrounded by water but connected to a mainland

Question 23

Period

Answer 23

Length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time

Question 24

Permafrost

Answer 24

Permanently frozen soil

Question 25

Perspective

Answer 25

A technique that allows artists to display a three-dimensional space on a flat surface