AP HUG 4.1-4.5 Review

A straight line boundary is known as a _____ boundary.

• Consequent
• Geometric
• Subsequent
• Natural

State that has freedom over its own affairs has 

• centrifugal forces
• nationalism
• sovereignty
• pluralism

The world's largest state is

• China
• Canada
• United States
• Russia

What type of boundary differentiates a cultural divide?

• Consequent
• Subsequent
• Antecedent
• Geometric

An area organized into a independent political unit is a 

• colony
• territory
• satellite
• State

Japan would be an example of a ______.

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

A state is a synonym for a

• territory

• country

• unit

• member

Taiwan can be considered a sovereign state because

• the Nationalist party rules both China and Taiwan.

• China recognizes its sovereignty.

• its government carries on diplomatic relations with many other countries.

• its size meets the minimum geographic requirement for independence.

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

• Balkanization
• Apartheid
  Apartheid
• Nationalism
• Ethnic Cleansing

A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

• Frontier
• Satellite States
• Shatterbelt
• Buffer State