AP Human Geo: Chapter 7

Question 1

163. Apartheid

Answer 1

Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographical areas.

Question 2

164. Balkanization

Answer 2

A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

Question 3

165. Balkanized

Answer 3

Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, longstanding antagonisms toward each other.

Question 4

166. Blockbusting

Answer 4

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood.

Question 5

167. Centripetal Force

Answer 5

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.

Question 6

168. Ethnic Cleansing

Answer 6

A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Question 7

169. Ethnicity

Answer 7

Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.

Question 8

170. Genocide

Answer 8

The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.

Question 9

171. Nationalism

Answer 9

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.

Question 10

172. Nationality

Answer 10

Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.

Question 11

173. Race

Answer 11

Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor.

Question 12

174. Racism

Answer 12

Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Question 13

175. Racist

Answer 13

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

Question 14

176. Sharecropper

Answer 14

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of crops.

Question 15

177. Triangular Slave Trade

Answer 15

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean Islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Asia.