APHG Unit 4 Practice Quiz

A ________ is a group of people with a common political identity and a ________ is a country with recognized borders.

• territory, state

• nation, territory

• state, nation

• nation, state

________ governments are organized into a geographically based hierarchy of local government agencies

With its system of regional provinces, Canada is an example of a(n)

• microstate

• electoral state

• federal state

• regional state

The drawing of new voting districts is called

• reapportionment

• gerrymandering

• reelection

• redrawing

• discretization

When voting districts are redrawn in such a way that they purposely favor a political party, the have been

• vetoed

• redistricted

• gerrymandered

• reelected

Indonesia is an example of what kind of state?

• elongated

• compact

• fragmented

• prorupted

Afghanistan is a landlocked country

• True

• False

In Antartica, geometric political border do little to organize a vast

• borderland

• frontier

• tundra

• territory

• continent

Centripetal forces pull countries apart, while centrifugal forces bind them together

• True

• False

When one country exerts political, economic, or social influence over another without the aid of official government institutions, it is called

• dominance

• imperialism

• colonialism

• federalism

• territorialism