Chapter 8-9 Test

Question 0

The borders around Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico are best described as what?

Answer 0

Geometric

Question 1

What type of government does the US have: federal or unitary?

Answer 1

Federal

Question 2

What is gerrymandering?

Answer 2

When political boundaries are redrawn to help one political party

Question 3

Name the 5 different shapes that states come in.

Answer 3

Compact, Prorupted, Elongated, Fragmented, Perforated

Question 4

Name 4 different supranational organizations.

Answer 4

UN, EU, NATO, COMECON

Question 5

Which states in the US could be considered exclaves?

Answer 5

Alaska and Hawaii

Question 6

Give an example of a perforated state.

Answer 6

South Africa (perforated= “swiss cheese state”)

Question 7

What was the purpose of the Berlin conference of 1884?

Answer 7

To settle land disputes in Africa btwn. colonizing countries

Question 8

What major factor led to the split of India and Pakistan in the 1940s?

Answer 8

Religion

Question 9

What was the OPEC Oil Crisis?

Answer 9

When the oil-producing countries of the world cut off our oil supply

Question 10

The 4 Asian Tigers/Dragons are South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and —.

Answer 10

Chaerin

Just kidding, it’s Singapore

Question 11

What are the stages in Rostow’s “Modernization Model”?

Answer 11

1: Traditional Society
2: Preconditions for Takeoff
3: Takeoff
4: Drive to maturity
5: Age of mass consumption

Question 12

About what percentage of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels?

Answer 12

About 84% (btwn. 82-86%)

Question 13

What is GNI PPP?

Answer 13

Gross National Product Purchasing Power Parity (a comparison of the buying power of people in different countries)

Question 14

Which kinds of forces bring people of a country together?

Answer 14

Centripetal

Question 15

What is an enclave?

Answer 15

A country, or part of one, found completely within another country (like Lesotho)

Question 16

What is a DMZ?

Answer 16

A demilitarized zone (a region btwn. two countries that neither military is about to cross)

Question 17

What is geopolitics?

Answer 17

A study of the interplay btwn. politics and different territories of the world

Question 18

What do you call a section of a state that extends towards a resource?

Answer 18

A proruption

Question 19

Name two countries that are good examples of nation-states.

Answer 19

Japan and Denmark

Question 20

Which of the following types of government would best define a dictatorship: democratic, anocratic, or autocratic?

Answer 20

Autocratic

Question 21

The Wallerstien model separates the world into which two groups?

Answer 21

The Core (developed countries in N. Hemisphere) and the Periphery (the developing countries everywhere else)

Question 22

What do you call the process by which control is handed from a central government to smaller local governments?

Answer 22

Devolution

Question 23

The United Nations Law of the Sea states that countries can control resources out to — miles from their shores.

Answer 23

200

Question 24

Why did most African nations not join the UN until the 1960s?

Answer 24

They weren't yet independent, they were still colonized

Question 25

What are the Millennium Development Goals?

Answer 25

Eradicate extreme poverty and disease; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability (phew

Question 26

What is an LDC? What is an MDC?

Answer 26

Less Developed Country; Most Developed Country

Question 27

What does per capita GNI measure?

Answer 27

The wealth, not the distribution (so a little tiny group of people can be loaded and the rest starving because there is still a lot of wealth, it just doesn't belong to everyone)

Question 28

What three consumer goods are good indicators of development?

Answer 28

Motor vehicles, telephones, and computers

Question 29

What is the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?

Answer 29

A measurement of the extent of each country's gender inequality, conducted by the UN

Question 30

What are the three principle types of consumption of coal, petroleum, and natural gas?

Answer 30

Businesses, homes, and transportation

Question 31

What is OPEC?

Answer 31

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (they have all of the oil) (and they control all of your minds) (and no, Isabella, Turkey is not a member of OPEC)

Question 32

What is a cartel?

Answer 32

When organizations work together to increase the price of something

Question 33

Know the difference between the Self-Sufficiency Model and the International Trade Approach (Rostow's model).

Answer 33

In the book lies all the answers.

Question 34

Know the difference between the theory and the reality behind using loans for infrastructure projects in LDCs.

Answer 34

THE BOOK KNOWS ALL