Boundaries
What is the name for a boundary that no longer functions as an international border? The Berlin Wall between East and West Germany is an example of this type of boundary.
Relic boundary
Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of a state?
(A) A common language
(B) An organized economy and circulation system
(C) Political sovereignty
(D) A permanent resident population
(E) Defined boundaries
(A) A common language
What is the name for political redistricting that produces unusually shaped districts to create a political advantage?
Gerrymandering
Which supranational organization is an international organization that is responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and harmonizing the actions of nations?
United Nations
Which of the following can be an example of a centrifugal political force?
(A) Homogeneous ethnic population
(B) Strong central government
(C) Variation of language within the country
(D) Shift to tertiary economy
(E) Concentrated ownership of media
(C) Variation of language within the country
This is an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the midpoint between two places and is most commonly associated with water boundaries. The boundary between New York and New Jersey along the Hudson River is an example.
Median-line principle
Historically, Iceland had only one period of human migration. The country has never been invaded and possesses a common culture and language. As a result, Iceland is regarded as a good example of which type of political entity?
Nation-state
What is the set of economic and political strategies by which wealthy and powerful countries indirectly maintain or extend their influence over less wealthy areas?
Neocolonialism
Which current supranational organization began as a central core area of six countries that formed a regional trading bloc in the 1950s to lower or remove tariffs that hindered trade? It has 27 members today.
European Union
Canada, Russia, Norway, Denmark, and the United States all claim the right to extract natural resources out to the edge of their continental shelf beyond their exclusive economic zones in which region of the world?
Arctic Ocean
What is the name for a boundary that has regular, often perfectly straight, lines drawn without regard for an area’s physical or cultural features? Some of the boundaries drawn in Africa as a result of the Berlin Conference are an example.
Geometric boundary
In the United States House of Representatives there are a fixed number of 435 seats divided among the states based upon each state’s relative population size. Changes in the number of representatives affect politics at which scale?
National
What is defined as a subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has some degree of, but not complete, self-government?
Semiautonomous region
In 1994, the United States, Canada, and Mexico put into effect a multinational trade zone in which most tariffs were eliminated. What name was given to this regional supranational organization?
NAFTA
What could be seen as a threat to a state’s sovereignty at the national scale, while holding a region together at the global scale?
Supranationalism
What is the name for a boundary that is placed on an area without regard to existing boundaries? The partition of India in 1947 and some of the borders drawn at the Berlin Conference are examples of this type of boundary.
Superimposed boundary
A state with a large land area and multiple ethnic groups would most likely choose which form of state governance?
Federal
What is the name for a region of continuing and persistent fragmentation due to devolution and centrifugal forces?
Shatter belt
Which supranational organization is an intergovernmental military alliance among 29 North American and European countries with the purpose of guaranteeing the freedom and security of its members?
NATO
Estimated to number 30–45 million people, this group is one of the best-known stateless nations. Their historic territory is now divided among Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. They have sought independence through political and military means, but so far they have been unsuccessful.
Kurds
What is the name for a boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing cultural differences, such as those determined by the spatial patterns of religion or language?
Consequent
How often are boundaries of congressional districts of the United States redrawn?
Every 10 years
This is the process of a region or country breaking up into smaller, often hostile, political units. It is named for a region in southeastern Europe where this process has occurred numerous times throughout history, such as the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Balkanization
The provisions of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea give coastal countries navigational and economic sovereignty over their territorial waters. Territorial waters extend how many miles from a state’s coast?
12 miles
What semi-autonomous region was created in Canada in 1999 to recognize the territorial rights of indigenous people?
Nunavut