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Political Geography Vocabulary

Total questions: 89

Worksheet time: 45mins

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Class
Date
1.

What were the first states to evolve in Mesopotamia known as?

a)

nation-state

b)

state

c)

city-state

d)

enclave

e)

multinational state

2.

European states established colonies in places in the world like Africa and Asia. This is an example of:

a)

nationalism

b)

colonialism

c)

imperialism

d)

separatism

e)

terrorism

3.

Which statement is true about colonies?

a)

Earth's land was once made up of many colonies, but today only a few remain.

b)

Earth's land was once only made up of a few colonies, but today it is made up of many colonies.

c)

Easter Island is considered a colony on the U.S. State Department list of colonies.

d)

A colony is a country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination.

e)

There have always been only a few colonies on Earth.

4.

In World War II the _____ was bipolar between the Soviet Union and the United States.

a)

competition

b)

balance of power

c)

power

d)

relationship

e)

balance of competition

5.

Which one is a form of gerrymandering?

a)

major vote

b)

saved vote

c)

excess vote

d)

physical vote

e)

simple vote

6.

The Commonwealth includes the United Kingdom and 52 other states that were once ______.

a)

British colonies

b)

African colonies

c)

Asian countries

d)

American states

e)

Regional organizations

7.

Independence from control of its internal affairs by other states is

a)

self-determination

b)

compeition

c)

reunification

d)

sovereignty

e)

secession

8.

What is the smallest MICROSTATE in the United Nations?

a)

St, Lucia

b)

Moldova

c)

Maldives

d)

Malta

e)

Grenada

9.

Deserts, mountains, and water are physical elements that serve as ______ boundaries.

a)

Ethnographic

b)

Cultural

c)

Physical

d)

Geometric

e)

Subsequent

10.

What standardizes the territorial limits for most countries at 12 nautical miles?

a)

The Law of the Sea

b)

Unitary State

c)

Landlocked state Law

d)

Planned Capital cities

e)

European Base Law

11.

Geometric and ethnic boundaries are types of ___ boundaries.

a)

Cultural

b)

Physical

c)

Natural

d)

Antecedent

e)

Water

12.

The boundary with Canada and the northern United States is what kind of boundary?

a)

Ethnic

b)

Geometric

c)

Water

d)

Mountain

e)

Desert

13.

____ is to incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city.

a)

annexation

b)

boundary

c)

relic

d)

geometric

e)

enunciation

14.

What is a disagreement between states over the control of surface area?

a)

boundary disputes

b)

boundary

c)

annexation

d)

balance of power

e)

subsequent

15.

What completely surrounds an individual state to mark the outer limits of its territorial control and to give it a distinctive shape?

a)

frontier

b)

boundary

c)

annexation

d)

relic

e)

geometric

16.

What is a political boundary that existed before the cultural landscape emerged and stayed in a place while people moved into occupy the surroundings?

a)

geometric

b)

antecedent

c)

subsequent

d)

relic

e)

cultural

17.

What developed with the evolution of the culture of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes?

a)

subsequent

b)

antecedent

c)

consequent

d)

superimposed

e)

relic

18.

What is a boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language?

a)

subsequent

b)

antecedent

c)

superimposed

d)

consequent

e)

geometric

19.

What is a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape?

a)

superimposed

b)

antecedent

c)

consequent

d)

relic

e)

geometric

20.

What is a boundary that has ceased to function but can still be detected on the cultural landscape?

a)

antecedent

b)

superimposed

c)

geometric

d)

relic

e)

natural

21.

What is the action of fixing the boundary or limits of something?

a)

demarcation

b)

bufferstate

c)

delimitation

d)

natural

e)

geometric

22.

What is a phase in which the boundary is visibly marked on the landscape by a fence, line, sign, wall or other means?

a)

demarcation

b)

delimitation

c)

bufferstate

d)

geometric

e)

relic

23.

Nepal and Bhutan act as a ____ between China and India.

a)

buffer state

b)

city-state

c)

nation-state

d)

state

e)

colony

24.

What is a form of an international organization that brings several autonomous states together for a common purpose?

a)

compact state

b)

confederation

c)

antecedent

d)

core region

e)

periphery region

25.

This regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period?

a)

Core regions

b)

Conference of Berlin

c)

Conference of Europe

d)

Conference of Africa

e)

Devolution

26.

What regions have have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows?

a)

periphery regions

b)

core regions

c)

colonize regions

d)

regionals

e)

states

27.

Africa, Asia, Latin America, and all the other places that primarily make their living from local resources and support the economic core are ____.

a)

core regions

b)

periphery regions

c)

colony regions

d)

city regions

e)

no regions

28.

The "undoing of colonialism" is ____.

a)

devolution

b)

decolonization

c)

domino

d)

colony

e)

evolution

29.

What is he statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level?

a)

Devolution

b)

Evolution

c)

Decolonization

d)

Enclave

e)

Exclave

30.

If one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect this is called what?

a)

creation theory

b)

communism theory

c)

domino theory

d)

influence theory

e)

the theory

31.

What considers the physical characteristics of a territory directly affect the population and the election decision of people?

a)

Domino theory

b)

Enclave

c)

Exclave

d)

Electoral geography

e)

Voting geography

32.

What is an enclave?

a)

land surrounded by another country

b)

an island

c)

a place where no one is different

d)

a group of similar people

e)

an exclave

33.

What is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically conterminous with it because of surrounding foreign territory?

a)

exclave

b)

enclave

c)

ethnic enclave

d)

european union

e)

DMZ

34.

What is a a geographical area where a particular ethnic group is spatially clustered?

a)

ethnic enclave

b)

ethnic group

c)

ethnic land

d)

ethnic exclave

e)

ethnic area

35.

What country is not in the European Union?

a)

Denmark

b)

Cyprus

c)

Sweden

d)

Switzerland

e)

France

36.

The United States is an example of a

a)

unitary state

b)

federal state

c)

government

d)

state

e)

enclave

37.

what is a capital that is deliberately located, or relocated, to a specific region within a country?

a)

frontier

b)

forward-thrust capital

c)

federal state

d)

geopolitics

e)

landlocked state

38.

What is the study of the interplay between international political relations and the territorial/environmental context in which they occur?

a)

politics

b)

geopolitics

c)

gerrymandering

d)

frontier

e)

manifest destiny

39.

The theory created by Mackinder was called

a)

Rimland theory

b)

Heartland theory

c)

Geopolitic theory

d)

Imperialistic theory

e)

Manifest theory

40.

What theory countered the heartland theory?

a)

heartland theory

b)

rimland theory

c)

iron theory

d)

imperialistic theory

e)

microstatic theory

41.

What is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?

a)

imperialism

b)

frontier

c)

terrorism

d)

compacted state

e)

nation-state

42.

Which one is not a international organization?

a)

UNESCO

b)

Nations of Security

c)

United Nations

d)

World Bank

e)

Commonwealth of Nations

43.

What country was not considered to be behind the iron curtain?

a)

Poland

b)

Czechoslovakia

c)

Hungary

d)

India

e)

Romania

44.

What is a policy of advocating the restoration to a country of any territory formerly belonging to it?

a)

imperialism

b)

manifest destiny

c)

imperialistic

d)

irredentism

e)

micro-state

45.

What is a sovereign state entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas?

a)

landlocked state

b)

nation-state

c)

state

d)

federal state

e)

country

46.

What country is manifest destiny apart of?

a)

United Kingdom

b)

Germany

c)

United States

d)

Canada

e)

Mexico

47.

What is also called the equidistance method?

a)

manifest destiny

b)

median-line principle

c)

multiple capitals

d)

iron curtain

e)

mid-line principle

48.

What is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state?

a)

provinces

b)

states

c)

secession

d)

nations

e)

countries

49.

What is the reason for being; a unifying or centripetal force that can unify a people?

a)

Raison d'etre

b)

reapportionment

c)

separatism

d)

state

e)

reason to be

50.

What was the electoral college apportionment during the 2000 presidential election was still based on the 1990 census results an example of?

a)

separatism

b)

sovereignty

c)

secession

d)

reapportionment

e)

regional autonomy

51.

What is decentralization of governance to outlying regions?

a)

autonomy

b)

regional autonomy

c)

secession

d)

separatism

e)

satellite state

52.

What is refers to a country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country?

a)

satellite state

b)

state

c)

nation-state

d)

territorial state

e)

satellite

53.

What is the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state?

a)

secession

b)

separatism

c)

state

d)

supernationalism

e)

sovereignty

54.

What is the advocacy or practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender?

a)

state

b)

separatism

c)

secession

d)

supernational

e)

territorial disputes

55.

What is a politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by a significant portion of the international community?

a)

sovereignty

b)

state

c)

country

d)

nation

e)

area

56.

what is an alliance involving 3 or more countries for their mutual benefit?

a)

supernationalist organization

b)

supernationalism

c)

sovereignty

d)

satellite state

e)

secession

57.

What are three or more states to promote shared objectives?

a)

organizations

b)

supernational organizations

c)

terrotorial dispute

d)

compact

e)

supernationalism

58.

Territorial disputes are

a)

disagreements between states over the control of surface area

b)

not having enough resources in an area

c)

conflict between people of different religions

d)

unable to travel to another area

e)

not having enough people in an area

59.

What is a state that posses a roughly circular shape from which the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions?

a)

fragmented

b)

prorupt

c)

compact

d)

perforated

e)

elongated

60.

What is is being separated by water of another country, difficult to unify, govern., communicate?

a)

fragmented

b)

compact

c)

prorupt

d)

perforated

e)

created

61.

What are states with a long, narrow shape?

a)

fragmented

b)

compact

c)

prorupt

d)

perforated

e)

elongated

62.

What is an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension?

a)

prorupted state

b)

nation

c)

fragmented

d)

compact

e)

perforated

63.

What is a state that completely surrounds another?

a)

perforated

b)

elongated

c)

fragmented

d)

compact

e)

prorupted state

64.

What is a state whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided or under the control of a group of religious leaders?

a)

theocracy

b)

democracy

c)

republic

d)

dictatorship

e)

aristocracy

65.

What is state where laws are administered uniformly by one central government?

a)

nation-state

b)

theocracy

c)

united states

d)

unitary state

e)

country

66.

What is the idea that people are the ultimate sovereign-that is the people, the nation, have the ultimate say over what happens within the state?

a)

democracy

b)

republic

c)

democracy

d)

theocracy

e)

aristocracy

67.

What is a state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people and is exercised through elected representatives elected by them?

a)

democracy

b)

monarchy

c)

republic

d)

aristocracy

e)

theocracy

68.

Which is not one an example of a monarchy?

a)

UK

b)

Netherlands

c)

United States

d)

Spain

e)

Sweden

69.

What is a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility?

a)

aristocracy

b)

democracy

c)

monarchy

d)

dictatorship

e)

theocracy

70.

What is a form of autocracy where power is not inherited, but is acquired by force ?

a)

dictatorship

b)

monarchy

c)

democracy

d)

reunification

e)

organic theory

71.

What is a a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy?

a)

democratic republic

b)

democracy

c)

reunification

d)

organic theory

e)

dictatorship

72.

What is a system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs?

a)

traditional economic system

b)

market economic system

c)

command economic system

d)

mixed economic system

e)

none

73.

What is a system that is a key feature of any communist society?

a)

command economic system

b)

mixed economic system

c)

traditional economic system

d)

market economic system

e)

none

74.

What is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand?

a)

command economic system

b)

market economic system

c)

mixed economic system

d)

traditional economic system

e)

none

75.

What is a system that combines characteristics of market, command and traditional economies?

a)

mixed economic system

b)

market economic system

c)

command economic system

d)

traditional economic system

e)

none

76.

What is restoration of political unity to a place or group, especially a divided territory?

a)

lebensraum

b)

reunification

c)

organic theory

d)

monarchy

e)

dictatorship

77.

What is the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany?

a)

lebensraum

b)

reunification

c)

organic theory

d)

dictatorship

e)

opec

78.

What theory was coined Friedrich Ratzel?

a)

organic theory

b)

heartland theory

c)

rimland theory

d)

none

e)

ratzel theory

79.

Which country is not in OPEC?

a)

Iran

b)

India

c)

Iraq

d)

Saudia Arabia

e)

Angola

80.

Which country is not in APEC?

a)

Indonesia

b)

India

c)

Japan

d)

Peru

e)

Hong Kong

81.

Which country is not in NATO?

a)

France

b)

Germany

c)

Norway

d)

Netherlands

e)

India

82.

What is the treaty entered into by the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

a)

NAFTA

b)

NATO

c)

APEC

d)

OPEC

e)

NATA

83.

What is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims?

a)

terrorism

b)

democracy

c)

colonialism

d)

communism

e)

confederation

84.

What was the European Union known as in 1957?

a)

European Colonies

b)

European Community

c)

European people

d)

European area

e)

European Union

85.

What is a line or border separating two countries?

a)

enclave

b)

frontier

c)

iron curtain

d)

colony

e)

line

86.

What is an area from which weapons and military forces have been removed?

a)

DMZ

b)

EEZ

c)

electoral geography

d)

DDZ

e)

FMZ

87.

What is an area of coastal water and seabed within a certain distance of a country's coastline?

a)

EEX

b)

EEZ

c)

DMZ

d)

DEZ

e)

none

88.

Which country does not have multiple capitals?

a)

Chile

b)

Yemen

c)

France

d)

Malaysia

e)

Bolivia

89.

What is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land?

a)

planned capital cities

b)

multiple capitals

c)

capital cities

d)

unknown cities

e)

micro-state

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