Government

Question 1

dispute that involves some type of natural resource

Answer 1

Allocational (Resource) boundary dispute

Question 2

a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic

Answer 2

Anocracy

Question 3

one drawn across an area before it is well populated, that is, before most of the cultural landscape features were put in place.

Answer 3

Antecedent boundary

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Autocracy

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Boundary

Question 6

an independent but small and weak country lying between two powerful countries.

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Buffer state

Question 7

a strategic strait or canal which could be closed or blocked to stop sea traffic.

Answer 7

Choke point

Question 8

a territory that has established a mutual agreement with another state for the benefit of both parties.

Answer 8

Commonwealth

Question 9

the borders of the state are approximately equidistant from the center of the country

Answer 9

Compact state

Question 10

A boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language.

Answer 10

Consequent boundary

Question 11

the translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty (the definition) into an official cartographic representation.

Answer 11

Delimitation

Question 12

the actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers.

Answer 12

Demarcation

Question 13

a country in which the citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

Answer 13

Democracy

Question 14

the transition of an authoritarian regime (dictatorship) to a representative form of government

Answer 14

Democratization

Question 15

the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

Answer 15

DMZ

Question 16

the study of the interactions among space, place, and region and the conduct and results of elections.

Answer 16

Electoral geography

Question 17

are at least twice as long as they are wide or vice versa: they are long and skinny

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Elongated states

Question 18

a piece of territory surrounded by, but not part of, a country.

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Enclave

Question 19

an economic association established in 1957 by a number of Western European countries to promote free trade among members; often called the Common Market.

Answer 19

European Union

Question 20

a piece of national territory separated from the main body of a country by the territory of another country.

Answer 20

Exclave

Question 21

the right for a country to explore for resources up to 200 miles off of their shore

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Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Question 22

an internal organization of a state that allocated most powers to units of local government.

Answer 22

Federal State

Question 23

a capital city deliberately sited in a state’s frontier zone.

Answer 23

Forward-Thrust Capital

Question 24

a state that is in pieces that are not attached to each other.

Answer 24

Fragmented state

Question 25

a disagreement between neighboring states over policies to be applied to their common border; often induced by differing customs regulations, movement of nomadic groups, or illegal immigration or emigration.

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Functional (operational) boundary dispute

Question 26

political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or an arc.

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Geometric boundary

Question 27

to redraw voting district boundaries in such a way as to give one political party maximum electoral advantage and to reduce that of another party, to fragment voting blocks, or to achieve other nondemocratic objectives.

Answer 27

Gerrymandering

Question 28

group that includes two or more states seeking political and /or economic cooperation with each other.

Answer 28

International organization

Question 29

a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.

Answer 29

Landlocked

Question 30

law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth’s seas and oceans and their resources.

Answer 30

Law of the Sea

Question 31

when the definition of the border is not questioned but the interpretation of the border is.

Answer 31

Locational (Positional) boundary dispute

Question 32

(also called the “equidistance method”) involves drawing a line equidistant from the closest mainland points of each of two adjacent countries. The “modified median line” principle allows small adjustments in this equidistance line to account for de facto boundaries or for practical reasons such as avoiding administrative problems that would result from splitting a single oil field between two states.

Answer 32

Median-line principle

Question 33

has an entire state completely inside of its borders.

Answer 33

Perforated state

Question 34

those boundaries based on recognizable physiologic features, i.e. mountains, rivers, and lakes.

Answer 34

Physical (Natural) boundary

Question 35

has a protrusion extending out from its main base.

Answer 35

Prorupted state

Question 36

the process of allocating electoral seats to geographical areas.

Answer 36

Reapportionment

Question 37

a former boundary line that no longer functions as such is still marked by some landscape features or differences on the two sides.

Answer 37

Relic boundary

Question 38

boundary drawn after the development of the cultural landscape.

Answer 38

Subsequent boundary

Question 39

the civil right to vote.

Answer 39

Suffrage

Question 40

a boundary forced on existing cultural landscapes, a country, or a people by a conquering or colonizing power that is unconcerned about preexisting cultural patterns.

Answer 40

Superimposed boundary

Question 41

occurs when states willingly relinquish some degree of sovereignty in order to gain the benefits of belonging to a larger political-economic entity.

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Supranationalism

Question 42

relationship between a state’s geographic shape, size, relative location, and its political situation - a state’s physical shape - could be compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupted, or perforated

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Territorial morphology

Question 43

a state in which the central government dictates the degree of local or regional autonomy and the nature of local governmental units; a country with few cultural conflicts and with a strong sense of national identity.

Answer 43

Unitary state