political geography bingo vocab

Question 1

boundary

Answer 1

vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below and the airspace above the surface

Question 2

centrifugal

Answer 2

forces that tend to divide a country

Question 3

centripetal

Answer 3

forces that tend to unify a country

Question 4

colonialism

Answer 4

Colonizer takes over another place

Question 5

core

Answer 5

higher education, higher salaries, and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery

Question 6

critical geopolitics

Answer 6

Focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians

Question 7

democracy

Answer 7

government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign

Question 8

deterritorialization

Answer 8

the movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states

Question 9

devolution

Answer 9

the process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength

Question 10

federal

Answer 10

a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state

Question 11

geometric boundary

Answer 11

political boundary defined as a straight line or an arc

Question 12

gerrymandering

Answer 12

manipulate the boundaries of an area so as to favor one party

Question 13

heartland theory

Answer 13

Political power is based in the heart of Eurasia

Question 14

majority-minority districts

Answer 14

majority of the population is from the minority ethnicities

Question 15

mercantilism

Answer 15

Associated with a promotion of commercialism and trade

Question 16

multinational state

Answer 16

state with more than one nation

Question 17

multi-state nation

Answer 17

nation with more than one state

Question 18

nation

Answer 18

encompasses all citizens of a state; bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes

Question 19

nation-state

Answer 19

A nation with a defined boundary

Question 20

periphery

Answer 20

lower education, lower salaries, and less technology, and generate less wealth than core

Question 21

physical-political boundary

Answer 21

political boundary defined by a prominent physical feature

Question 22

reapportionment

Answer 22

process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts

Question 23

reterritorialization

Answer 23

Give back power and territory

Question 24

semi-periphery

Answer 24

places where core and periphery processes are both occurring places

Question 25

sovereignty

Answer 25

supreme power or authority; the right to rule

Question 26

state

Answer 26

defined territory, permanent population, government, recognized by other states

Question 27

stateless nation

Answer 27

a nation without a state

Question 28

supranational organization

Answer 28

3 or more nation-states promote shared objectives EX European Union

Question 29

territorial integrity

Answer 29

the right of a state to defend sovereign territory

Question 30

territoriality

Answer 30

sense of property or attachment toward its territory; determination to keep it in-voidable and strongly defended

Question 31

unilateralism

Answer 31

world order in which one state is in a position of dominance

Question 32

unitary

Answer 32

a nation-state that has a centralized government

Question 33

world systems theory

Answer 33

social change in the developing world is inextricably linked to the economic activities of the developed world

Question 34

Political geography

Answer 34

The study of the political organization of the world

Question 35

Decolonization

Answer 35

First wave focused on the decolonization of the americas and the second wave second wave was focused on decolonization of Africa and Asia

Question 36

Capitalist world economy

Answer 36

More than the sum of its parts it is composed of dots but we must also understand the whole

Question 37

Immanuel wallersteins world systems theory

Answer 37

1 the world had one market and a global division of labor
2 everything takes place within the context of the world economy
3 the world economy has a three tier structure

Question 38

Capitalism

Answer 38

People, corporations, and states produce goods and services and exchange them in the world market with the goal of achieving profit

Question 39

Geopolitical world order

Answer 39

Temporary periods of stability in how politics are conducted

Question 40

Electoral geography

Answer 40

A states electoral system is part of its spatial organization of government

Question 41

Geopolitics

Answer 41

The interplay among geography power politics and international relations