Ch. 8: Political Geography

Question 1

A permanent population and independent from control of its internal affairs by other states

Answer 1

State (or country)

Question 2

Independence from the central of its internal affairs by other states

Answer 2

Sovereignity

Question 3

Was created to maintain peace after World War II

Answer 3

UN (United Nations)

Question 4

The right to govern themselves

Answer 4

Self-determination

Question 5

A state that contains more than one ethnicity (e.g. U.S.A.)

Answer 5

Multi-ethnic state

Question 6

A state whose population is made up of two or more nation

Answer 6

Multinational state

Question 7

Territory that is legally joined to a sovereign state and is not completely self-governing

Answer 7

Colony

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Boundary

Question 9

Cultural remnants of previous frontiers and boundaries (e.g. Berlin Wall)

Answer 9

Relic/Old boundary

Question 10

Using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs

Answer 10

Geometrical boundary

Question 11

A boundary based on geographical features of the Earth’s surface

Answer 11

Physical boundary

Question 12

Drawn after existing settlement patterns already existed

Answer 12

Subsequent boundary

Question 12

Drawn around a cultural group (e.g. Nunavut)

Answer 12

Consequent boundary

Question 13

Boundaries that existed before the settlement of the land

Answer 13

Antecedent boundary

Question 14

Important narrow areas that connect two larger areas ( the Suez Canal)

Answer 14

Choke Point

Question 15

Lacks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by other states

Answer 15

Landlocked states

Question 16

Country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office

Answer 16

Democracy

Question 17

Country that is run according to the interests of the ruler

Answer 17

Autocracy

Question 18

When a country takes back land that may have previously been owned by it (e.g. Russia and Ukraine)

Answer 18

Irredentlism

Question 19

Division of the water surface of the planet info. areas determined by physical and human geography

Answer 19

Maritime boundary

Question 20

Mixture of democracy and autonomy

Answer 20

Anocracy

Question 21

Places most power in the hands of control government officials

Answer 21

Unitary state

Question 22

Autocates strong power to units of local government within the country

Answer 22

Federal state

Question 23

Redrawing voting districts to solidify power through the use of boundaries to ensure one party will not have the majority vote

Answer 23

Gerrymandering

Question 24

A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances

Answer 24

Balance of power

Question 25

To maintain bipolar balance of power in Europe

Answer 25

NATO (North Alliance Treaty Organization)

Question 26

Calls upon member states to supply troops

Answer 26

OSCE (Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe)

Question 27

Promotes social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states

Answer 27

OAS (Organization of American States )

Question 28

Founded it to end colonialism in Africa

Answer 28

AU (African Union)

Question 29

Seek economic and cultural cooperation

Answer 29

The Commonwealth

Question 30

Purpose of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea

Answer 30

Access to resources

Question 31

Countries that are internally divided and have an unstable government of a result of unrest of cross-border conflicts (e.g. North and South Korea)

Answer 31

Shatter belt

Question 32

Communities and groups of people

Answer 32

Nation

Question 33

A state whose population is only a portion of a nation (e.g. Arabia)

Answer 33

Part-Nation

Question 34

A nation that has no state or is divided into several states (e.g. Palestine)

Answer 34

stateles nation

Question 35

Popular in Mesopotamia and Greece

Answer 35

City-states

Question 36

Use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control other countries

Answer 36

Neocolonialism

Question 37

Ended the colonial era in the 20th century (can be violent)

Answer 37

Decolonialism

Question 38

European countries paid no attention to where national, language, cultural groups, or empire boundaries existed

Answer 38

Scramble for Africa (Berlin Conference)

Question 39

Portion of the state of separated from the main part of the state by another country

Answer 39

Exclave

Question 40

State surrounded by another state

Answer 40

Enclave

Question 41

Ideology that claims to express o fthe will of the people which some enemy is supposedly oppressing

Answer 41

Populism