Political Geography Test 1

state with more than one nation within its borders

• sovereignty

• microstate

• state

• multinational state

a state made of a city and surroundings

• multinational state

• microstate

• city-state

• state

how groups control people, land, and resources of an area

• self-determination

• territorial waters

• international waters

• territoriality

area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that had control over its internal and foreign affairs

• state

• city-state

• microstate

• multinational state

the areas of the sea that are not under the jurisdiction of any country

• territorial waters

• international waters

• territoriality

• shatterbelt

law establishing state rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth’s seas and oceans and their recourses

• sovereignty

• law of the sea

• microstate

• state

area in which resources found up to 200 nautical miles offshore belong exclusively to the geographically bordering country

• exclusive economic zone

• contiguous zone

• territorial waters

• self-determination

very small state

• multinational state

• state

• microstate

• city-state

ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its international affairs by other states

• sovereignty

• microstate

• city-state

• state

between 12 and 24 nautical miles from shore, a state may enforce laws concerning pollution, taxation, customs, and immigration

• contiguous zone

• chokepoints

• territorial waters

• exclusive economic zone