APHG Unit 4: Political Geography - Quiz

The United Nations (UN) is an example of what?

• Alliance

• Multinational state

• Confederation

• Supranational organization

Boundaries established by rivers, oceans, deserts, mountains, etc. 

• Political boundaries
• Physical boundaries
• Cultural boundaries
• Geographic boundaries

A state that encompasses a very small land area

• Island state
• Megastate
• Ministate
• Microstate

In this image if C belongs to B it is considered a ___________ of country B and a _______ of country A

• core, periphery
• enclave, exclave
• exclave, enclave
• heartland, periphery

Which characteristic do all the nations seen here share?

• All are compact
• All are landlocked
• All are federal states
• All are members of OPEC

Which type of boundary would use lines of latitude and longitude?

• Antecedent
• Subsequent
• Geometric
• Relic

The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands

• Terrorism
• Communism
• Anarchism
• Republicanism

After a civil war in China between Nationalists and Communists, this state emerged and the nationalists proclaim it to be the legitimate rulers of China

• Hong Kong
• North Korea
• Taiwan
• Phillipines

The right to govern as a sovereign state

• Nation-State

• Multinational States

• Self-Determination

• Colonization

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), international waters, with no state control begins at:

• 12 Nautical Miles

• 24 Nautical Miles

• 120 Nautical Miles

• 200 Nautical Miles