AP Human Geography Unit 4 Political Geography Review

Antecendent boundaries occurred BEFORE the present landscape was established. 

• true
• false

Conflicts often occur on borders because 

• direct, physical contact often takes place between two neighboring states
• Direct, physical contact never takes place between two neighboring states
• boundary lines are carefully drawn between different cultures
• boundary lines are invisible

The study of human political organization of the Earth

• Cultural Geography
• Ethnography
• Deography
• Political Geography

Extreme patriotism or love for one's country.

• Pride
• Nationalism
• Patriotism
• Power

NAFTA is way of avoiding conflict in North America by eliminating _________ & _________. 

• tariffs, dictators
• tariffs, quotas
• quotas, sales tax
• quotas, income tax

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

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

Balancing power between 2 states is the purpose of....

• shatterbelts
• buffer states
• EEZs
• the United Nations 

A state that encompasses a very small land area

• Island state
• Megastate
• Ministate
• Microstate

In this image if C belongs to B it is considered a ___________ of country B and a _______ of country A

• core, periphery
• enclave, exclave
• exclave, enclave
• heartland, periphery

Which characteristic do all the nations seen here share?

• All are compact
• All are landlocked
• All are federal states
• All are members of OPEC