Geography & Power
This is the study of how the world is organized and how different groups hold power over territory.
What is political geography?
This is a cultural group of people who share a common identity but do not necessarily have their own independent country.
What is a nation?
This term refers to a government’s right to control its territory and make laws without outside interference.
What is sovereignty?
Greenland is not a state, but this.
What is a nation?
What is a territory?
If the U.S. Navy blocks a foreign port to stop trade, it is exercising this specific form of power.
What is "hard power?"
This is the official word for "country."
What is a state?
The United States is an example of this type of state.
What is a federal state?
This is the primary indigenous language spoken by the people of Greenland
What is Greenlandic?
The global spread of "Hollywood" culture is a prime example of this type of power in political geography.
What is soft power?
Native Hawaiians are an example of this concept
What is a nation?
If a group of people chooses to adopt a Capitalist system instead of a Socialist one, they are exercising this right.
What is self-determination?
Greenlanders voted to establish this governing body to gain more control over their own affairs.
What is a Parliament?
This is the core reason political geographers study how the world is organized; it describes the level of control a group holds over a specific territory.
What is power?
This "state" is also an island continent.
What is Australia?
In this system, most or all of the governing power sits with a centralized government in the capital city.
What is a unitary state?
The native Greenlanders are overwhelmingly from this culture also found in Canada and Alaska.
Who are the Inuits?
It was in this year that the Greenlandic Inuit voted to establish their Parliament.
What is 1979?