APHG Political Unit Review

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

Boundaries established by rivers, oceans, deserts, mountains, etc. 

• Political boundaries
• Physical boundaries
• Cultural boundaries
• Geographic boundaries

Which characteristic do all the nations seen here share?

• All are compact
• All are landlocked
• All are federal states
• All are members of OPEC

Boundaries based on traits like language.

• Geometric Boundary
• Physical Boundary
• Cultural Boundary
• Linear Boundary

The map above illustrates what concept designed to give political advantage to a particular group?

• devolution
• political enclave
• gerrymandering
• cultural landscape

When something helps bond the people within a country, it is called a:

• Nation-State
• Centripetal Force
• Centrifugal Force
• Stateless Nation

Area that occupies a defined territory with a permanent population and is ruled by an established government that has control over its internal/external affairs.

• State

• Autonomous region

• nation-state

• city-state

The political authority of a state to govern itself is called

• Democracy

• Sovereignty

• Government

• International trade

Forces that tend to divide a country

• centripetal
• centrifugal
• unitary 
• federal

A country that has no access to water is a ___ country.

• Compact
• Landlocked
• Island Nation
• Elongated