APHG Unit 4 (Political Geography) Review

When something helps bond the people within a country, it is called a:

• Nation-State
• Centripetal Force
• Centrifugal Force
• Stateless Nation

A country where everyone is similar minded, cultured, language speaking, and have a lot of national pride would be called?

• multi-state nation
• multinational state
• nation-state
• stateless nation

The term nation-state would best fit which country?

• United States
• Israel
• Brazil
• Japan

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

Cultural identity through shared traits such as language or religion

• Race
• Ethnicity
• Habit
• Culture

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

• Antecedent
• Subsequent
• Geometric
• Relic

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

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

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

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

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 

The morphology of Namibia is best described as

• compact.
• elongated.
• prorupt(ed).
• fragmented.