APUG unit 4 vocab

Question 1

Which of the following terms refers to an individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over land? This concept often leads to defense of the land.

Answer 1

Territoriality

Question 2

Which of the following is true for landlocked States?

Answer 2

They are at a commercial and strategic disadvantage.

Question 3

A region that historically is caught between stronger colliding external forces. The region is often fractured and splintered politically and ethnically. This an example of a(n)

Answer 3

shatterbelt

Question 4

Which type of gerrymandering is designed to elect minority candidates?

Answer 4

Stacked

Question 5

Exclaves are often created for which of the following reasons?

Answer 5

To create political boundaries that attempt to unite ethnic groups in nearby regions under the control of one government in order to decrease conflict in a region.

Question 6

The process of redrawing voting district boundaries in order to give one political party or group an electoral advantage is called

Answer 6

gerrymandering

Question 7

A former boundary line that is still visible and marked by some cultural landscape feature is a(n)

Answer 7

relic boundary

Question 8

A piece of undeveloped property is adjacent to a residential neighborhood. The city government wants to build a jail on the property but the local community objects to the land-use. Which of the following terms best exemplifies this dispute?

Answer 8

Functional/operational dispute

Question 9

A boundary that is drawn after the development of a cultural landscape is a(n)

Answer 9

subsequent boundary

Question 10

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves is referred to as

Answer 10

self-determination.

Question 11

The policy of a state wanting to add territory from another State inhabited by people who have cultural links to their own State is

Answer 11

irredentism

Question 12

All of the following tend to be centripetal forces within a country except

Answer 12

regionalism

Question 13

Culturally defined political boundaries, such as those determined by the spatial patterns of religion or language, are called ________________________.

Answer 13

consequent

Question 14

The main purpose of the European Union is to

Answer 14

create an economic free trade zone for member countries.

Question 15

What is a politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and recognized by a large percentage of the international community?

Answer 15

state

Question 16

The presence of centrifugal forces within a country has lead many central governments to transfer central government power to regional or local governments. This process is called

Answer 16

devolution

Question 17

A boundary forced upon existing cultural landscapes, a country, or a people by a conquering or colonizing power is called a(n)

Answer 17

superimposed boundary

Question 18

This type of political framework has a central government but each of the sub-national entities has representation and influence in the government process.

Answer 18

federal

Question 19

Which of the following entities has increasingly gained both economic and political power on a global scale in the 21st century via the process of globalization?

Answer 19

Transnational corparations

Question 20

The exercise of state power over people and territory, and being recognized by other international states, refers to

Answer 20

sovereignty

Question 21

A state whose territory closely corresponds to an ethnicity that has become a nationality is a

Answer 21

nation-state

Question 22

What is it called when three or more states cooperate in order to promote shared objectives in the areas of defense, economy or cultural cooperation?

Answer 22

supranationalism

Question 23

Two neighbors disagree about the color, material and size of a fence between their properties. Which of the following terms best illustrates this dispute?

Answer 23

Positional/locational dispute

Question 24

Which type of boundary uses lines of latitude and longitude and not existing physical features?

Answer 24

geometric boundary

Question 25

Unitary states usually have all of the following characteristics except?

Answer 25

Multiple provinces with strong regional governments.

Question 26

Which of the following terms identifies the type of regions such as Native American or American Indian Reservations?

Answer 26

semi autonomous regions

Question 27

In contrast to a state, a nation

Answer 27

is a cultural concept implying a group of people occupying a particular territory and unified by shared beliefs.

Question 28

When Africa and India regained their freedom after colonialism by the British which process did each area go through?

Answer 28

decolonization

Question 29

A national group that aspires to become a nation-state but lacks the territory is a

Answer 29

stateless nation

Question 30

The Kurdish populations stretch across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, which concept best represents this population?

Answer 30

multistate naiton

Question 31

The policy by a country to establish settlements in an area and impose its political, economic and cultural principles there is called

Answer 31

colonialism

Question 32

This sub field of geography studies the political, economic and strategic significance of geography?

Answer 32

geopolitics

Question 33

In Africa private investors and foreign governments have leased farmland for large-scale commercial farming. Usually much of the food produced is bound for wealthier nations. This practice is an example of _____________________________.

Answer 33

neocolonialism

Question 34

Every 10 years in the US a count of the population affects the political boundaries in states and each states representatives in Congress. Which term best identifies this activity?

Answer 34

census

Question 35

This type of boundary line is established before an area is well populated.

Answer 35

Antecedent boundaries.