Human Geography Final Review 3

The ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states is called 

• Frontier

• Sovereignty

• Annexation

• Balkanization

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

• Autonomy

• Balkanization

• Supranationalism

• Annexation

A stateless person is someone who

• does to have nationality or citizenship.

• Is recently without a residence because of a natural disaster or fire.

• is a person who must flee from perceived persecution.

• is a criminal in their home nation.

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

• centripetal force

• centrifugal force

• Devolution

• Balkanization

Why do most large empires and multinational states break apart? 

• They share a common culture and set of laws.

• The many culturally diverse groups seek to create their own separate sovereign nations.

• Most want to break away from their old alliances and join the United Nations.

• The dynasty ends when the monarch does not have an heir to become the next ruler.

Demographic transition is the process of change in a society's 

• resources.

• population.

• gross income.

• natural resources.

What causes around a million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa each year? 

• War and famine

• High levels of farming chemicals in the water.

• Malaria carried by mosquitoes that are not killed by pesticides.

• People exposed to tuberculosis.

What is generally the motivation for people to move from one location to another? 

• People want warmer climates.

• Most people mover for better job prospects.

• Most people want to seek out lost ancestors.

• People generally want to move to rural locations.

Most people in More Developed Countries make intraregional moves to 

• urban locations.

• rural locations.

• agricultural locations.

• suburban locations.

Most refugees, asylum seekers and Internally displaced persons move because

• political upheaval like civil wars.

• they won the migration lottery and were allowed to leave their nation.

• better economic opportunities.

• to become ambassadors to other nations.