AP Human Geography Political Vocabulary Review

A region where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established.

• Frontier
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State
• Satellite State

A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

• Frontier
• Satellite States
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State

Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.

• Slav State
• Imperialist State
• Buffer State
• Satellite State

A state with only one nation within its borders

• Stateless-Nation
• Nation-State
• Ethnocentric Nation
• Statehood

a state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• United States
• Multi-Cultural State
• Multi-Ethnic State
• Nation-State

a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.

• Nation-State
• City-State
• Stateless Nation
• National State

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

• Self-determination
• Nationalism
• Predestination
• Nation-State

Which of the following would best fit the description of a State?

• Alabama
• Hawaii
• The South
• Japan

Who was the developer of the Heartland Theory

• Nicolas Spykman
• Friedrich Ratzel
• Halford Mackinder
• James Monroe

Who developed the Organic State Theory?

• Friedrich Ratzel
• Halford Mackinder
• Nicolas Spykman
• James Monroe