Unit 4: Political Geography

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

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

Who was the developer of the Heartland Theory

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

Extreme patriotism or love for one's country.

• Pride
• Nationalism
• Patriotism
• Power

NAFTA is way of avoiding conflict in North America by eliminating _________ & _________. 

• tariffs, dictators
• tariffs, quotas
• quotas, sales tax
• quotas, income tax

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

• Susequent
• Cultural
• Superimposed
• Antecedent

The UN is an example of what?

• Military alliance
• Multinational state
• Confederation
• Supranational organization

In the Heartland-Rimland model, what constitutes the heartland?

• Much of Europe as it is highly developed and stable and is therefore the largest threat to the world.
• Much of the Middle East as it contains the largest oil reserves in the world.
• Much of Russia as it contains the largest concentration of the best agricultural land in the world.
• Much of Russia as it is largely uninhabited land that has a fair amount of resources for the claiming.