Political Geography Review

Elbridge Gerry came up with the concept of ___ to redraw voting districts that give one political party an advantage.

• salamandering

• gerrymandering

• legislative redistricting

• electoral college

A country with two or more ethnic groups living within in it is referred to as a ___.

• Nation State
• Balkan State
• National State
• Multinational State

A country that is not full autocratic or fully democratic is referred to as a ___.

• Republic
• Dictatorship
• Anocracy
• Monarchy

A group of people who share a common culture and identity as a cohesive group is a called a ___.

• Nation State
• Nation
• Country
• Sovereign State

The concept that an ethnic group would have the right to govern themselves.

• Balkanization
• Self-Determination
• Sovereignty
• Anocracy

Ancient Greece was a collection of ____ states.

• island
• city
• compact
• elongated

Country ran is run according to the interests of its ruler rather than its people is called a ____.

• Autocracy
• Anocracy
• Democracy
• Constitutional Monarchy

What does NATO stand for?

• North Atlantic Trade Organization
• North American Trade Organization
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• North Alaskan Trade Organization

Another word to describe a historical boundary is ___.

• Relic
• Geometric
• Old
• Subsequent

Japan would be an example of a ______.

• Compact State
• Nation-State
• Multinational State
• Perforated States