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Unit 4 Group 3 Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The box would best be titled “_________________________.”

a)

Reasons for Functional Disputes

b)

Reasons for Positional Disputes

c)

Reasons for Resource Disputes

d)

Reasons for Territorial Disputes

e)

Reasons for Allocational Disputes

2.

The photograph on the left best matches which of the following concepts?

a)

Frontier

b)

Periphery

c)

Core Area

d)

Hinterland

e)

Buffer State

3.

The photograph on the right best matches which of the following concepts?

a)

Frontier

b)

Periphery

c)

Core Area

d)

Hinterland

e)

Buffer State

4.

In 1939 geography Mark Jefferson proposed the Law of ___________, defined as being, "at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant." In addition to size and economic influence, he argued that ___________ will usually have precedence in all other aspects of its country's society, such as being a center of politics, media, culture and education and receive most internal migration. What vocabulary concept best matches the blanks?

a)

Forward Capital

b)

Primate City

c)

Satellite State

d)

Buffer State

e)

Annexed Territory

5.

Which of the following countries was both a satellite state AND a buffer state for the Soviet Union (“USSR”)?

a)

Yugoslavia

b)

Ukraine

c)

Greece

d)

Albania

e)

Poland

6.

The statements in the box best justify which of the following political actions?

a)

Annexation of a frontier zone

b)

The creation of a new forward capital

c)

Territory expansion justified by irredentism

d)

Control of a satellite state or buffer zone

e)

Resolution of a positional dispute

7.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it said it wanted to reunite the German minority living in Poland with Germany. This is an example of:

a)

Functional dispute

b)

Irredentism

c)

Sovereignty

d)

Positional dispute

e)

Forward capital

8.

Written documents, often historical treaties, can include language that each state interprets differently.


For example in 1825, Britain and Russia signed a treaty to establish claims in what today is Alaska.


The treaty stated: “the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last-mentioned point, the line shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude.”


The vague phrase about the mountains was indefinite. This best demonstrates which of the following vocabulary concepts?

a)

Functional Disputes

b)

Positional Disputes

c)

Resource Disputes

d)

Territorial Disputes

e)

Allocational Disputes

9.

Antarctica is governed internationally through the Antarctic Treaty system. The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959 by 12 countries whose scientists had been active in and around Antarctica at the time.


Among the original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty were seven countries – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom – with territorial claims to parts of Antarctica, some overlapping.


Some Treaty Parties do not recognise territorial claims and others maintain that they reserve the right to make a claim.

www.antarctica.gov.au


The above describes the governance of Earth’s last __________, a territory with no permanent population or single system of government.

a)

Hinterland

b)

Core Areas

c)

Periphery

d)

Autonomous Region

e)

Frontier

10.

The Soviet Union was a federation of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). The first Republics were established shortly after the October Revolution of 1917.


The criteria for establishing new republics were as follows:

1) to be located on the periphery of the Soviet Union so as to be able to exercise their alleged right to secession, 2) be economically strong enough to survive on their own upon secession, and 3), be named after the dominant ethnic group which should consist of at least one million people.


In addition, the Soviet Union wielded heavy political influence over its neighbors, such as Poland and East Germany. While they were never included in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, these republics acted as buffer states protecting the USSR from western Europe. These allies were collectively called ____?

a)

Buffer Zone

b)

Satellite States

c)

Annexed Territory

d)

Frontier Zone

e)

Sovereign States