Political Geography

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a nation-state?

• A city with political & economic control over the surrounding countryside

• A sovereign state with subjects who are relatively homogeneous(language, culture, etc)

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnics groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

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What is the definition of a multinational state?

• A city with political & economic control over the surrounding countryside

• A sovereign state with subjects who are relatively homogeneous(language, culture, etc)

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnics groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

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What is a multistate nation?

• A city with political & economic control over the surrounding countryside

• A sovereign state with subjects who are relatively homogeneous(language, culture, etc)

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnics groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

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What is a stateless nation?

• When an ethnicity has history of self-determination but does not have a recognized state

• A state that contains 2 or more ethnics groups with a history of self-determination, that have agreed to coexist as one state, while remaining culturally distinct.

• Regions that have a certain degree of autonomy from an external power. These areas have power over their own affairs & are geographically distant from the country.

• Regions that have some control over their own affairs, however, another state also controls the regions.

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What is an autonomous region?

• When an ethnicity has a history of self-determination but does not have a recognized state

• Regions that have a certain degree of autonomy from external power. These areas have power over their own affairs & are geographically distant from the country.

• Regions that have some control over their own affairs, however, another state also controls the regions.

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

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What is a semi-autonomous region?

• Regions that have a certain degree of autonomy from external power. These areas have power over their own affairs & are geographically distant from the country.

• Regions that have some control over their own affairs, however, another state also controls the regions.

• When an ethnicity has a history of self-determination but does not have a recognized state

• A nation that stretches over many states and has multiple cultural identities.

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What is neocolonialism?

• The practice of using economic or political influence influence by a more developed country to control a less developed country indirectly

• Process when a state breaks up due to ethnic conflicts

• The establishment of a settlement in another territory to gain political, economic, and cultural control over a region

• A right to govern themselves. The state takes care of internal and external affairs.

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What is a choke point?

• The practice of using economic or political influence influence by a more developed country to control a less developed country indirectly

• A region that is caught between larger, external powers who are fighting (doesn't have to be physical)

• The establishment of a settlement in another territory to gain political, economic, and cultural control over a region

• A geological area on land or sea that has to be passed to reach a new destination.

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What is a shatterbelt?

• The practice of using economic or political influence influence by a more developed country to control a less developed country indirectly

• A region that is caught between larger, external powers who are fighting (doesn't have to be physical)

• The establishment of a settlement in another territory to gain political, economic, and cultural control over a region

• A geological area on land or sea that has to be passed to reach a new destination.

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What is a subsequent boundary?

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• A straight line that sometimes follows longitude and latitude

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

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What is a geometric boundary?

• Boundaries that no longer exists but still impact cultural landscape

• A straight line that sometimes follows longitude and latitude

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

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What is an antecedent boundary?

• Boundaries that no longer exists but still impact cultural landscape

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• A boundary that follows major geographic features like deserts, mountains, and bodies of water

• A political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings

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What is a relic boundary?

• Boundaries that no longer exists but still impact cultural landscape.

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• Boundaries that are put place by a foreign state

• A boundary that divides different ethnic groups by physical features.

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What is a superimposed boundary?

• Boundaries that no longer exists but still impact cultural landscape.

• Boundaries that are put place by a foreign state

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• A boundary that divides different ethnic groups by physical features.

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What is a consequent boundary?

• Boundaries that no longer exists but still impact cultural landscape.

• A boundary that develops along with the cultural landscape, language, religious, and ethnic breaks.

• Boundaries that are put place by a foreign state

• A boundary that divides different ethnic groups by physical features.

Multiple Choice

Which type of boundary dispute is this: The original boundary has shifted causing people to question the original boundary

• Definitional Boundary Dispute

• Locational Boundary Dispute

• Operational Boundary Dispute

• Allocational Boundary Dispute

Multiple Choice

Which type of boundary dispute is this: When two countries disagree on a major issue involving the border

• Definitional Boundary Dispute

• Locational Boundary Dispute

• Operational Boundary Dispute

• Allocational Boundary Dispute

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Which type of boundary dispute is this: The dispute is over the use of what is on or in the boundary *not how it's being operated**

• Definitional Boundary Dispute

• Locational Boundary Dispute

• Operational Boundary Dispute

• Allocational Boundary Dispute

Multiple Choice

This is an international treaty signed in 1982. It defines the rights and responsibilities of nations i their use of the world's oceans.

• Magna Carta

• United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea

• United Nations Declaration of Rights

• Treaty of Versailles

Multiple Choice

How many nautical miles of territorial sea is each country entitled to?

• 12-nautical miles

• 24-nautical miles

• 200 nautical-miles

• 52-nautical miles

Multiple Choice

This is an area where a country has sovereign rights to explore, exploit, conserve, and manage natural resources.

• Exclusive Environmental Zone

• UNCLOS

• High Seas

• Exclusive Economic Zone

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What shape is this state?

• Elongated

• Landlocked

• Perforated

• Prorupted

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What shape is this state?

• Compact

• Elongated

• Fragmented

• Prorupted

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What shape is this state?

• Compact

• Elgonated

• Fragmented

• Perforated

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What shape is this state?

• Compact

• Fragmented

• Prorupted

• Perforated

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What shape is this state?

• Compact

• Elongated

• Fragmented

• Landlocked

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What shape is this state?

• Compact

• Elongated

• Fragmented

• Perforated