Human Geography, Unit 4, Quiz 1

an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs

• state

• sovereignty

• colony

• nation-state

independence from control of its internal affairs by other states

• microstates

• soverignty

• nation-state

• colony

state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity

• self-determination

• colony

• microstate

• nation-state

concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

• self-determination

• colony

• sovereignty

• nation-state

territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent

• state

• colony

• microstate

• nation-state

state that contains more than one ethnicity

• multiethnic state

• multinational state

States may establish research stations for scientific investigations but no military activity is permitted

• Antarctic Treaty

• Law of the Sea

• colonialism

• frontier

invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory

• colonialism

• boundary

• frontier

• self-determination

A branch of geography that deals with the boundaries, divisions, and possessions of countries.

• Cultural geography

• Political geography

• Population geography

An indigenous ethnic group characterized by the language, a common culture and shared ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.

• Scots

• Basques

• Kurds