Geo Unit 5: Week 1 Key Terms

What term is defined as the largest political unit and formal term for a country?

• Autonomous region

• State

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Stateless nation

Which of the following is NOT a criteria to become a State?

• Has a defined boundary

• Is recognized by other countries

• Shares a common cultural heritage

• Contains a permanent population

• Maintains sovereignty over its domestic and foreign affairs

What term is defined as a group of people who have these certain things in common?

1. Share a common cultural heritage

2. Have beliefs and values that help unify them

3. Claim a particular space based on tradition as their homeland

4. Desire to establish their own state or express self-determination in another way.

• Autonomous region

• State

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Statless nation

What term is defined as a singular nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state?

Examples: Iceland and Japan

• Autonomous region

• State

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Statless nation

What term is a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-governance and freedom from its parent state?

Example: Navajo Nation in the U.S.

• Autonomous region

• State

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Stateless nation

What term is defined as cultural groups that have no independent political entity?

Examples: Palestinians and the Kurds

• Autonomous region

• State

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Stateless nation

What type of boundary is drawn by outside powers?

• Relic boundary

• Antecedent boundary

• Superimposed boundary

• Militarized boundary

• Subsequent (ethnographic) boundary

What type of boundary is drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic, or economic differences?

• Relic boundary

• Antecedent boundary

• Superimposed boundary

• Militarized boundary

• Subsequent (ethnographic) boundary

What type of boundary no longer exists, but there is evidence of its existence on the landscape?

• Relic boundary

• Antecedent boundary

• Superimposed boundary

• Militarized boundary

• Subsequent (ethnographic) boundary

What term is defined as a region that suffers instability because it is located between two very different regions?

• Choke point

• Stateless nation

• Shatterbelt region

• Autonomous region

• Multinational state