Government
A form of government where the central government has absolute authority.
What is a unitary state government?
Mountains, lakes or rivers that separate different states or peoples.
What is a physical border?
Monaco is an example of this type of small state.
A supranational organization originally founded to help Western Europe recover after WWII, that now focuses on loosening trade restrictions and promoting political cooperation.
Who is the EU?
A state in which multiple languages are widely spoken.
What is a multilingual state?
A form of government where power is distributed between the state and local levels.
What is Federal?
This type of border is formed using a straight dividing line that ignores the nearby peoples’ physical and/or cultural differences.
What is a geometric boundary?
A country made up of mostly one ethnicity that has a history of self determination.
What is a nation-state?
A supranational organization that was founded right after WWII to discuss international issues; all but a few states worldwide are members.
Who is the UN?
A factor or attitude that has the effect of unifying people in an effort to build support for the state government.
What is a centripetal force?
A form of government where people vote in elections to select their leaders, and everyone is able to run for office.
What is a democracy?
Most African countries' current borders are examples of this type of border.
What is a superimposed border?
This type of state which the country has no coastline and no access to any bodies of water.
What is a landlocked state?
A type of organization where member countries work together on economic trade and cooperation, but don’t give up any power.
What is an international organization?
A factor or attitude that has the effect of dividing people and creating conflict.
North Korea is an example of this type of government.
Autocracy
A type of border that separates different cultures to avoid conflict
What is a consequent border?
This boundary type allows access to a recourse or separates 2 other states.
What is a prorupted state?
The UN saw an increase in membership in the early 1990s due to the end of this.
What is the Cold War?
A language that is a mix between an indigenous language and the colonizers’ language.
What is creole?
A form of government that isn’t completely democratic, but not entirely autocratic either.
This type of border overrides or changes a previously-established border.
What is a subsequent border?
A state shape where a country has a hole, with the land making up that hole belonging to a completely separate state.
What is a perforated state?
Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru make up this Latin American trade organization
Who are the Pacific Alliance?
The process in which one state is split up into multiple smaller states due to conflicts between ethnic groups is called this.
What is Balkanization?