APHG Chapter 8 Quiz 1/2 (World and Boundaries/Capitals)

The political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries.

• Balkinization

• Nation-State

• Supranational Organization

• Containment

A region controlled by a city and that has sovereignty

• nation

• city-state

• nation-state

• satellite state

the idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect.

• Rimland Theory

• Organic Theory

• Domino Theory

• Heartland Theory

the study that analyzes geography, history and social science with reference to international politics

• World System's Theory

• Balkinization

• Imperialism

• Geopolitics

piece of territory that is surrounded by another political unit of which it is not a part (landlocked within the country which surrounds them).

• enclave

• exclave

bounded (non-island) piece of territory that is part of a state but lies separated from it by territory of another state

• enclave

• exclave

a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources

• Geometric boundaries

• Forward Capital

• Exclusive economic zones

• Law of the Sea

a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons

• nation

• city-state

• capital

• forward capital

boundaries, formed by rivers, mountains, etc

• natural boundaries

• geometric boundaries

• militarized boundaries

• international boundaries

The belief of Halford MacKinder that the interior of Eurasia provided a likely base for world conquest.

• Heartland Theory

• Rimland Theory

• Organic Theory

• Domino Theory