Unit 4 Essential Vocab Quiz

A state that posses sole authority over land and people within its boundary and has international recognition from other states

• sovereignty

• territoriality

• defined boundaries

• Berlin conference

A branch of analysis of human geography concerned with the spatial analysis of political systems

• political geography

• territoriality

• territorial sea

• sovereignty

When a treaty or written agreement identifies the limits or boundaries of an area

• defined boundaries

• demarcated boundaries

• equitable infrastructure

• relic boundaries

When voting districts are drawn so as to concentrate all the opposition party into one district, thereby creating an unnecessarily large majority while also ensuring that it cannot win elsewhere.

• cracking

• territoriality

• packing

• reapportionment

Water beyond 200 nautical miles from the coast of a country and is outside the jurisdiction of any country; open to all states whether landlocked or coastal, incudes rights to fish and mineral resources in deep seabed

• territorial seas

• international waters (high seas)

• Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

• Contiguous Waters

When voting districts are drawn so as to divide opposition votes into many districts, thus diluting the oppositions vote so that it does not form a majority in any district.

• packing

• reapportionment

• redistricting

• cracking

Water that is 12 nautical miles from the coast of a country in which they have exclusive fishing rights, but there is right of innocent passage with challenge to military and research vessels permitted

• territorial sea

• international waters (high seas)

• Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

• contiguous seas

When a majority ethnic group controls the state, and minority ethnic groups are economically, politically, and culturally marginalized creating a centrifugal force and desire to separate from the state

• sovereignty

• ethnic separatism

• ethnic cleansing

• irredentism

Conference that led to the colonial partitioning of Africa; overrode most existing forms of African autonomy and self-government, formed boundaries that have mostly stayed in place causing conflict

• political geography

• territoriality

• Berlin Conference

• UN Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS)

The construction and improvement of foundational services such as access to energy sources throughout the country; leads to economic growth and improvements in quality of life

• uneven development

• defined boundaries

• irredentism

• equitable infrastructure