Unit 4: Political Geography

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

A state with only one nation within its borders

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

A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination.

• Multi-Ethnic State

• Multi-National State

• Stateless Nation

• Nationalism

A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

• United States

• Multi-Cultural State

• Multi-Ethnic State

• Nation-State

Who was the developer of the Heartland Theory

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

The Sahara desert and Himalayan mountains are examples of which type of boundary?

• Susequent
• Cultural
• Superimposed
• Antecedent

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

• Antecedent
• Subsequent
• Geometric
• Relic

What is the military alliance set up by West Europe and the US to align against communism?

• NATO
• COMECON
• Warsaw Pact
• NAFTA

Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States?

• network television
• the flag
• the many ethnic groups living within it
• "The Star Spangled Banner"

Which challenge did many African nations face after gaining independence?

• violence from rival groups living together
• lack of education / government training to run a country 
• economy dependent on the European country that colonized them
• All of the above