APHG Unit 4 Review

Which of the following describes a unitary form of governance?

• Stronger states and transnational corporations indirectly control weaker states.

• A state has a strong central government with no power given to regions

• A collection of independent communities shares government services

• A state’s more powerful central government shares power with its regions

• A sense of unity, often derived from ethnic or cultural traits, binds a country together

What do the states represented above have in common?

• They are all federal states

• They are all formerly communist states

• They are all mega states

• They are all unitary states

• They are all ethnic states

Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of a state?

• A common language

• An organized economy and circulation system

• Political sovereignty

• A permanent resident population

• Defined boundaries

Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by

• seventeenth-century European explorers

• European colonial powers in the late-nineteenth century

• the Bandung Conference of 1955

• decolonization movements of the 1950s and 1960s

• UN peacekeeping missions in the 1950s and 1960s

Which of the following best describes the role of the federal state in a country’s political organization?

• To act as a system of defense that protects subnational states from threats emerging outside of the country’s international borders

• To act as a single centralized economy for a collection of subnational states allied for a common purpose

• To act as an overarching government for a collection of subnational states allied for a common purpose

• To act as a strong centralized administration that eliminates the need for self-governing subnational or local governments

• To act as a virtual public-service provider that eliminates the need for self-governing subnational or local governments

Which of the following terms refers to an area of instability located between regions with opposing political and cultural values?

• Rimland

• Heartland

• Shatter belt

• Enclave

• Chokepoint

The provisions of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea give coastal countries navigational and economic sovereignty over which of the following zones?

• Twelve-nautical-mile territorial sea zone

• Export processing zone (EPZ)

• 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone

• Twenty-four-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone

• Empowerment zone

What do we call forces that unite people or states?

This map shows two states and the different regions within them. Each of these regions are made up of a different nation of people and are looking for more local authority in their territory. What is that process called?

• revolution

• centrifugal forces

• devolution

• centripetal forces

• gerrymandering

The former international border between East Germany and West Germany is best described as

• an open border

• a demilitarized zone

• a relict boundary

• an antecedent boundary

• a geometric boundary