GEO CH 8

Question 1

anocracy

Answer 1

a country that is not fully autocracy or democratic; displays a mix of both

Question 2

autocracy

Answer 2

country is run according to the ruler’s interest rather than the people

Question 3

balance of power

Answer 3

a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances

Question 4

city state

Answer 4

a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding country side.

Question 5

colonialism

Answer 5

an effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory.

Question 6

colony

Answer 6

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

Question 7

compact state

Answer 7

the distance from the center to any boundary doesn’t vary significantly

Question 8

democracy

Answer 8

a country in which citizens can run for office

Question 9

elongated states

Answer 9

have a long and narrow shape

Question 10

federal state

Answer 10

strong power is allocated to units of local government

Question 11

fragmented state

Answer 11

several discontinuous pieces of territory

Question 12

frontier

Answer 12

a zone where no state exercises complete political control.

Question 13

gerrymandering

Answer 13

redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power.

Question 14

landlocked

Answer 14

lacks a direct outlet to sea because is it surrounded by other countries

Question 15

microstates

Answer 15

states with very small land area

Question 16

multinational

Answer 16

contains more than one nation

Question 17

nation

Answer 17

large group of people united by common cultural characteristics

Question 18

nation-state

Answer 18

territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular nation

Question 19

perforated state

Answer 19

a state that completely surrounds another one

Question 20

prorupted state

Answer 20

compact state with a large projecting extension

Question 21

self determination

Answer 21

nations have the right to govern themselves

Question 22

state

Answer 22

area organized into a political unit ruled by an established government that controls affairs

Question 23

terrorism

Answer 23

the threatened/actual use of illegal violence by a non-state to attain a goal through fear

Question 24

unitary state

Answer 24

power is place in central government officials

Question 25

weapon of mass destruction

Answer 25

weapon that brings harm to a large number of humans