Chapter 8 Politcal Geography

Question 1

Anocracy

Answer 1

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic - mix of the two

Question 2

Autocracy

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Balance of power

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Boundary

Answer 4

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

Question 5

City-state

Answer 5

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate surrounding countryside

Question 6

Colonialism

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Colony

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Compact state

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Democracy

Answer 9

A country in which its citizens elect leaders and can run for office

Question 10

Elongated state

Answer 10

A state with long, narrow shape

Question 11

Federal state

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Fragmented state

Answer 12

A state that includes serval discontinuous pieces of territory

Question 13

Frontier

Answer 13

A zone separating two states in which neither states excesses political control

Question 14

Gerrymandering

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Landlocked state

Answer 15

A state that does not have access to the sea

Question 16

Micro state

Answer 16

A apostate the encompasses a very small land area

Question 17

Multiethnic state

Answer 17

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

Question 18

Multinational state

Answer 18

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

Nation-state

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Perforated state

Answer 20

A state that completely surrounds another

Question 21

Prorupted state

Answer 21

An otherwise compact state with large projecting extension

Question 22

Self-determination

Answer 22

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Question 23

Sovereignty

Answer 23

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

Question 24

State

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Terrorism

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Unitary state

Answer 26

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