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WorksheetsAPHUG Topic 4.1- Introduction To Political Geography
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
What is a state?
Area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs
A group with a common culture (think ethnicity)
A country who's population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination
Which of the following is true about states?
Occupies defined territory
Lesser degree of freedom
Permanent Population
Group of people without a state
(a) are the building blocks of the world map
Which is the largest state?
Russia
Monaco
United States
Canada
What is the smallest state?
Russia
United States
Monaco
Greenland
(a) - a group with a common culture
What is a nation-state?
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs
A defined area within a state with a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state
A country whose population possesses a substantia degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
A nation that has no state of its own but stretches' across borders of other states
Which of the following are examples of nation-states? (Select all that apply)
Denmark
United States
Slovenia
Japan
Canada
What is a stateless nation?
A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination
A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
A group with a common culture
The case of an ethnic group of people without a state
Which of the following are examples of stateless nations? (Select all that apply)
Palestinians
Canada
Basque
Russia
What is a multinational state?
The case of an ethnic group of people without a state
A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity
A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination
A area organized into a political unit and ruled by and established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs
Russia is an example of a (a) state
A (a) Is a nation that has no state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.
Which of the following are examples of multistate nations?
Korean nation
United States
Canada
Kurdistan
What is a autonomous region?
A nation that has no state of its own but stretches' across borders of other states
A defined area within a state with a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state
A country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination
The case of an ethnic group of people without a state
(a) regions have a lesser degree of freedom than autonomous regions
Which of the following is an example of a Autonomous region?
Hawaiian Islands
Aland Islands
Russia
Greenland
Which of the following is an example of a semiautonomous region?
Finland
Canada
Africa
Native American Reservations
Why do disagreements occur about the number of sovereign states?
Border disputes between two states
Historical disputes involving more than one claim to a territory
Disagreements between who owns what part of the ocean
None of the above
(a) built sand walls during the 1980's to isolate Polisario Front rebels fighting for independence
