Unit 4 Chapter 8 Intro to Statehood

Human Geography AP

Unit 4 Chapter 8 Political Geography

Intro to Statehood

Open Ended

Bell Ringer: What are the differences in a border between states and a border between countries?

¿Cuáles son las diferencias en una frontera entre estados y una frontera entre países?

Part One

Distribution of States

Multiple Choice

An area organized into a independent political unit is a

• colony

• territory

• satellite

• state

Multiple Choice

State that has freedom over its own affairs has

• centrifugal forces

• nationalism

• sovereignty

• pluralism

Multiple Choice

Denmark is a good example of a nation-state because

• nearly all Danes speak Danish and live in Denmark.

• Danish and German nationalities intermingle in Schleswig-Holstein.

• the people living on the Faeroe islands, which are controlled by Denmark, speak Faeroese.

• Denmark consolidated its boundaries by giving Greenland to Norway.

Multiple Choice

A state that encompasses a very small land area

• Island state

• Megastate

• Ministate

• Microstate

Multiple Choice

Extreme patriotism or love for one's country.

• Pride

• Nationalism

• Patriotism

• Power

Multiple Choice

A state with only one nation within its borders

• Stateless-Nation

• Nation-State

• Ethnocentric Nation

• Statehood