Political Geo Vocab Quiz

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• Colonialism

• Organic Theory

• Imperialism

• Territory

Political geography is the study of geography involving geographic states, borders, and how humans identify with them.

• True

• False

The area around Eurasia and the oceans were the key to political powers

• Imperialism

• Colonialization

• Organic Theory

• Rimland Theory

The policy of extending a country's influence through diplomacy or military force to areas already developed by an indigenous society

• The Organic Theory

• Imperialism

• Colonialization

• None of these

The attempt by one country to establish settlements and impose its political, economic, and culture principles in another territory.

• United States

• Territory

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

Geographers study organizations that include many countries such as the European Union

• Supernational Scale

• Maps

• Political geography

• Country scale

Geographers study how a country geographically distributes power to it’s people; such as establishing voting districts.

• Regional

• Supernational Scale

• Global

• Local scale

Geographers study how a country’s government is organized and interacts with it’s people

• Supernational scale

• Country scale

• Regional scale

• Map scale

The UN is an example of what?

• Alliance
• Multinational state
• Confederation
• Supranational organization

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

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