Unit 4 Quiz: POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

A state with control over its internal affairs has

• centripetal forces

• nationality.  

• suffrage.  

• sovereignty

Which of the following is considered a sovereign state?

• India

• Hong Kong

• Antarctica

• Puerto Rico

The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is

• Antarctica

• Greenland

• Siberia

• The Arctic

Korea is a good example of

• Nation-state

• Colony

• Nation divided between more than one state

• Sovereign state

The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were

• city-states

• nation-states

• empires

• colonies

A frontier, in contrast to a boundary

• is a region of ethnic conflict.

• has become a more common means to separate states.

• is an area rather than a line.

• separates two states.

A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states include all EXECPT

• Lakes

• Mountains

• Latitude lines

• Deserts

This type of state can provide for efficiency in administration

• compact

• prorupt

• elongated

• perforated

Fragmented states can help create which type of forces within a state?

• geographic

• nationalistic

• centrifugal

• centripetal

A country with this shape can provide access to a resource, or it can separate two countries that would otherwise share a boundary.

• compact

• prorupted

• perforated

• elongated