APUG unit 4 vocab Flashcards
Which of the following terms refers to an individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over land? This concept often leads to defense of the land.
Territoriality
Which of the following is true for landlocked States?
They are at a commercial and strategic disadvantage.
A region that historically is caught between stronger colliding external forces. The region is often fractured and splintered politically and ethnically. This an example of a(n)
shatterbelt
Which type of gerrymandering is designed to elect minority candidates?
Stacked
Exclaves are often created for which of the following reasons?
To create political boundaries that attempt to unite ethnic groups in nearby regions under the control of one government in order to decrease conflict in a region.
The process of redrawing voting district boundaries in order to give one political party or group an electoral advantage is called
gerrymandering
A former boundary line that is still visible and marked by some cultural landscape feature is a(n)
relic boundary
A piece of undeveloped property is adjacent to a residential neighborhood. The city government wants to build a jail on the property but the local community objects to the land-use. Which of the following terms best exemplifies this dispute?
Functional/operational dispute
A boundary that is drawn after the development of a cultural landscape is a(n)
subsequent boundary
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is referred to as
self-determination.
The policy of a state wanting to add territory from another State inhabited by people who have cultural links to their own State is
irredentism
All of the following tend to be centripetal forces within a country except
regionalism
Culturally defined political boundaries, such as those determined by the spatial patterns of religion or language, are called ________________________.
consequent
The main purpose of the European Union is to
create an economic free trade zone for member countries.
What is a politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and recognized by a large percentage of the international community?
state
The presence of centrifugal forces within a country has lead many central governments to transfer central government power to regional or local governments. This process is called
devolution
A boundary forced upon existing cultural landscapes, a country, or a people by a conquering or colonizing power is called a(n)
superimposed boundary
This type of political framework has a central government but each of the sub-national entities has representation and influence in the government process.
federal
Which of the following entities has increasingly gained both economic and political power on a global scale in the 21st century via the process of globalization?
Transnational corparations
The exercise of state power over people and territory, and being recognized by other international states, refers to
sovereignty
A state whose territory closely corresponds to an ethnicity that has become a nationality is a
nation-state
What is it called when three or more states cooperate in order to promote shared objectives in the areas of defense, economy or cultural cooperation?
supranationalism
Two neighbors disagree about the color, material and size of a fence between their properties. Which of the following terms best illustrates this dispute?
Positional/locational dispute
Which type of boundary uses lines of latitude and longitude and not existing physical features?
geometric boundary
Unitary states usually have all of the following characteristics except?
Multiple provinces with strong regional governments.
Which of the following terms identifies the type of regions such as Native American or American Indian Reservations?
semi autonomous regions
In contrast to a state, a nation
is a cultural concept implying a group of people occupying a particular territory and unified by shared beliefs.
When Africa and India regained their freedom after colonialism by the British which process did each area go through?
decolonization
A national group that aspires to become a nation-state but lacks the territory is a
stateless nation
The Kurdish populations stretch across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, which concept best represents this population?
multistate naiton
The policy by a country to establish settlements in an area and impose its political, economic and cultural principles there is called
colonialism
This sub field of geography studies the political, economic and strategic significance of geography?
geopolitics
In Africa private investors and foreign governments have leased farmland for large-scale commercial farming. Usually much of the food produced is bound for wealthier nations. This practice is an example of _____________________________.
neocolonialism
Every 10 years in the US a count of the population affects the political boundaries in states and each states representatives in Congress. Which term best identifies this activity?
census
This type of boundary line is established before an area is well populated.
Antecedent boundaries.
