Political Geography Review

1. Which of the following is not required for a state to exist?

• A permanent population
• Access to a river or ocean
• A sovereign government
• Recognition from other countries
• Borders marking territorial limits

2. A nation is a group of people who share all of the following, except:

• religion
• education
• language
• ethnicity

4. Why isn't the United States a nation-state?

• We have a very large land area.
• We have a culturally diverse population.
• We are lacking complete sovereignty.
• We are too dependent on other countries.

5. Most Kurds live in the border regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey because they still lack a state of their own. As a result, they are the largest modern example of a:

• multinational state
• autonomous region
• stateless nation
• nation-state

6. The country of Brazil is broken up into 26 states and 1 federal district using ___.

• internal boundaries
• international boundaries
• intermittent boundaries
• imitation boundaries

8. The boundary between Alaska and Canada follows 141*W longitude. This would make the border a/an ___.

• Physical boundary
• Ethnic boundary
• Geometric boundary
• Relic boundary

9. The Great Lakes between the United States and Canada are an example of a/an ___.

• Physical boundary
• Ethnic boundary
• Geometric boundary
• Relic boundary

10. India's historical division into 3 separate countries (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) due to religious differences is an example of ___ being drawn.

• Physical boundaries
• Ethnic boundaries
• Geometric boundaries
• Relic boundaries

11. The Berlin Wall once stood as a divide between East and West Germany. When the wall came down in 1989, those states combined. This is an example of a ___.

• Physical boundary
• Ethnic boundary
• Geometric boundary
• Relic boundary

12. The Law of the Sea states that a country's territorial rights extend ___ miles off the coastline while their resource rights extend ___ miles out to sea.

• 6; 100
• 12; 200
• 18; 300
• 24; 400