4.2-4.2 Warm Up Quiz

Which of the following best describes how African states were created?

• African tribes created their own countries based on their cultural boundaries

• Europeans and cartographers from Europe created boundaries in Africa that disregarded the local populations

• The United Nations created boundaries to resolve tribal conflicts

• The United States worked with different ethnic groups to help them gain their independence

• Nations with self-determination created their own nation states

_______ is the process in which a state breaks down due to cultural conflicts between different ethnic groups or nations

• Self-determination

• Colonization

• Territoriality

• Devolution

• Balkanization

When a state transfers power from the national government and spreads it out to the different regional governments it is known as _________

• Devolution

• Balkanization

• Centripetal force

• Decolonization

• Self-determination

Which of the following is the best example of neocolonialism?

• A region where outside governments seek to influence a state's internal government and people to start a revolution

• Developing countries trying to fight for independence from a foreign state that has direct control over the state

• The process in which countries expand their political and economic influence through settlements and colonies

• The practice of a more developed country or multinational company trying to control or influence a less developed country

• When a state creates a colony in another state to exert their political and economic control over the people of the geographic area

Which of the following best explains the concept of a shatterbelt region?

• A region that is caught between larger external powers who are currently fighting

• A region where different cultures come into conflict with one another in a peaceful and respectful way

• Developing countries trying to fight for independence from a foreign state that has direct control over the state

• The practice of a more developed country or multinational company trying to control or influence a less developed country

• A region where outside governments seek to influence a state's internal government and people to start a revolution

The Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca are examples ________

• Neocolonialism

• Choke points

• Shatterbelt regions

• Territoriality

• Centrifugal locations

Which of the following would not be an example of a shatterbelt region?

• Israel and Palestine

• Sudan and South Sudan

• Kashmir

• Korean peninsula during the Cold War

• United States and Canada