AP Human Geo: Chapter 8

Question 1

178. Anocracy

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A country that us bit fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a ix of the two types.

Question 2

179. Autocracy

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A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

Question 3

180. Balance of Power

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A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.

Question 4

181. Boundary

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An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.

Question 5

182. City-State

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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

Question 6

183. Colonialism

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An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

Question 7

184. Colony

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A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.

Question 8

185. Compact State

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A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.

Question 9

186. Democracy

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A country in which citizens elect leader and can run for office.

Question 10

187. Elongated State

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A state with a long, narrow shape.

Question 11

188. Federal State

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An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

Question 12

189. Fragmented State

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A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.

Question 13

190. Frontier

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A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.

Question 14

191. Gerrymandering

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The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Question 15

192. Landlocked State

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A state that does not have direct outlet to the sea.q

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193. Microstate

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A state the encompasses a very small land area.

Question 17

194. Multiethnic State

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A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

Question 18

195. Multination State

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A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

Question 19

196. Nation-State

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

Question 20

197. Perforated State

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A state that completely surround another one.

Question 21

198. Prorupted State

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An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.

Question 22

199. Self-Determination

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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Question 23

200. Sovereignty

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Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Question 24

201. State

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An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Question 25

202. Terrorism

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The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.

Question 26

203. Unitary State

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An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government official.