HUG vocab chap 8

Question 1

territoriality

Answer 1

creating ownership over defined space

Question 2

centripetal force

Answer 2

force that tends to unify people

Question 3

centrifugal force

Answer 3

force that tends to pull people apart

Question 4

political geography

Answer 4

study of human political organization of the earth at various geography scales

Question 5

stateless nation

Answer 5

when a nation doesn’t have a state to call it’s own

Question 6

multi state nation

Answer 6

nation that stretches across multiples states

Question 7

state

Answer 7

area organized into political unit and ruled by established government

Question 8

microstates

Answer 8

states with very small land area

Question 9

sovereignty

Answer 9

independence from control of internal affairs (a country’s right to govern themselves)

Question 10

city state

Answer 10

sovereign state that comprises a town and surrounding country side

Question 11

nation

Answer 11

large group of people who are united by common cultural characteristics or shared history

Question 12

nation state

Answer 12

state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a certain nation

Question 13

self determination

Answer 13

nations/ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Question 14

multinational state

Answer 14

state that contains multiple nations

Question 15

colony

Answer 15

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

Question 16

colonialism

Answer 16

effort by 1 country to establish settlements in a territory and impose political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory

Question 17

democracy

Answer 17

citizens elect leaders and can run for office

Question 18

anocracy

Answer 18

not fully democratic or democratic, a mix of both

Question 18

unitary state

Answer 18

most power placed in hands of central gov officials

Question 18

autocracy

Answer 18

run according to interests of ruler rather than the people

Question 18

federal state

Answer 18

strong power placed in hands of regional gov officials

Question 18

irredentism

Answer 18

movement by nation to reunite its people when they have spread across other borders

Question 18

shatterbelt

Answer 18

when a state/region is caught between stronger colliding external cultural/political forces, under persistent stress and fragmented by aggressive rivals

Question 18

weapons of mass destruction

Answer 18

nuclear, biological, chemical or other weapon that can kill/harm large number of humans or structures

Question 19

supranational organization

Answer 19

alliance between multiple states working towards common goal

Question 20

devolution

Answer 20

transfer of political power from central gov to regional gov within a state

Question 21

balkanization

Answer 21

centrifugal forces break apart a state into smaller pieces along ethnic/cultural lines

Question 22

terrorism

Answer 22

threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by nonstate actor to attain goal through fear

Question 23

boundary

Answer 23

invisible line that marks extent of state territory

Question 24

frontier

Answer 24

tangible geographic area between states where no state exercises complete political control

Question 25

gerrymandering

Answer 25

redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit party in power

Question 26

UNCLOS

Answer 26

defines rights and responsibilities of countries to use oceans and manage marine resources

Question 27

fragile states index

Answer 27

measures vulnerability of states to collapse based on security threats, economic decline, human rights violations, and social unrest

Question 28

reapportionment

Answer 28

congressional districts redrawn and seats are redistributed around states in House every 10 years