Chapter 8-9 Test Flashcards
The borders around Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico are best described as what?
Geometric
What type of government does the US have: federal or unitary?
Federal
What is gerrymandering?
When political boundaries are redrawn to help one political party
Name the 5 different shapes that states come in.
Compact, Prorupted, Elongated, Fragmented, Perforated
Name 4 different supranational organizations.
UN, EU, NATO, COMECON
Which states in the US could be considered exclaves?
Alaska and Hawaii
Give an example of a perforated state.
South Africa (perforated= “swiss cheese state”)
What was the purpose of the Berlin conference of 1884?
To settle land disputes in Africa btwn. colonizing countries
What major factor led to the split of India and Pakistan in the 1940s?
Religion
What was the OPEC Oil Crisis?
When the oil-producing countries of the world cut off our oil supply
The 4 Asian Tigers/Dragons are South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and —.
Chaerin
Just kidding, it’s Singapore
What are the stages in Rostow’s “Modernization Model”?
1: Traditional Society
2: Preconditions for Takeoff
3: Takeoff
4: Drive to maturity
5: Age of mass consumption
About what percentage of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels?
About 84% (btwn. 82-86%)
What is GNI PPP?
Gross National Product Purchasing Power Parity (a comparison of the buying power of people in different countries)
Which kinds of forces bring people of a country together?
Centripetal
What is an enclave?
A country, or part of one, found completely within another country (like Lesotho)
What is a DMZ?
A demilitarized zone (a region btwn. two countries that neither military is about to cross)
What is geopolitics?
A study of the interplay btwn. politics and different territories of the world
What do you call a section of a state that extends towards a resource?
A proruption
Name two countries that are good examples of nation-states.
Japan and Denmark
Which of the following types of government would best define a dictatorship: democratic, anocratic, or autocratic?
Autocratic
The Wallerstien model separates the world into which two groups?
The Core (developed countries in N. Hemisphere) and the Periphery (the developing countries everywhere else)
What do you call the process by which control is handed from a central government to smaller local governments?
Devolution
The United Nations Law of the Sea states that countries can control resources out to — miles from their shores.
200
Why did most African nations not join the UN until the 1960s?
They weren’t yet independent, they were still colonized
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
Eradicate extreme poverty and disease; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability
(phew
What is an LDC? What is an MDC?
Less Developed Country; Most Developed Country
What does per capita GNI measure?
The wealth, not the distribution (so a little tiny group of people can be loaded and the rest starving because there is still a lot of wealth, it just doesn’t belong to everyone)
What three consumer goods are good indicators of development?
Motor vehicles, telephones, and computers
What is the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?
A measurement of the extent of each country’s gender inequality, conducted by the UN
What are the three principle types of consumption of coal, petroleum, and natural gas?
Businesses, homes, and transportation
What is OPEC?
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (they have all of the oil) (and they control all of your minds) (and no, Isabella, Turkey is not a member of OPEC)
What is a cartel?
When organizations work together to increase the price of something
Know the difference between the Self-Sufficiency Model and the International Trade Approach (Rostow’s model).
In the book lies all the answers.
Know the difference between the theory and the reality behind using loans for infrastructure projects in LDCs.
THE BOOK KNOWS ALL
