TYPES OF POLITICAL ENTITIES
TYPES OF STATES
BOUNDARIES & BORDERS
CONFLICT AND COHESION
INTERNAL AND ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
100
What is the term for a politically organized territory with a permanent population, defined boundaries, and a government?
What is a state?
100
A country whose population is almost entirely one ethnic group of people is known as what?
What is a nation-state?
100
A boundary that follows physical features such as mountains or rivers is called what?
What is a natural/physical boundary?
100
What is the term for when countries join together for economic, political, or military goals? Give one example.
What is supranationalism?
EU, UN, NATO, ASEAN, African Union, Arctic Council, OPEC
100
What is the drawing of voting district boundaries called?
What is redistricting?
200
A group of people with a shared culture, history, and homeland is called what?
What is a nation?
200
What term describes when multiple groups of people exist within one country?
What is a multinational state?
200
Boundaries drawn before an area is heavily populated, often ignoring ethnic groups, are called what?
What are antecedent boundaries?
200
When a country breaks apart into smaller states due to internal conflict (e.g., Yugoslavia), what is this process called?
What is balkanization?
200
Manipulating district boundaries to favor one political party is known as what?
What is gerrymandering?
300
A state with limited sovereignty but still under influence of another country (e.g., Hong Kong under China) is called what?
What is a semi-autonomous region?
300
When a group of people do not have their own country (e.g., Kurds), what is it called?
What is a stateless nation?
300
Boundaries drawn by outside powers without regard to existing ethnic patterns (like those in Africa) are called what?
What are superimposed boundaries?
300
This type of border conflict happens when two countries have a dispute over how to manage the border between the two countries.
What is an operational boundary dispute?
300
According to the US Constitution, how often do we have to redraw congressional boundaries?
Every 10 years after the census.
400
This is a term for the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
What is sovereignty?
400
This is the term for a group of people that are split up among multiple different countries.
What is a multi-state nation?
400
This set of rules helps define international maritime boundaries for all countries.
UN Convention on the Law of the Seas
400
This is the term for factors that divide a country or state, pulling people apart due to differences like ethnicity, language, religion, political ideology, or economic inequality.
What are centrifugal forces?
400
What is the strategy of spreading opposing voters across many districts to dilute their influence?
What is cracking?
500
What is the term for a region that serves as a barrier between two conflicting states, often remaining politically weak and unstable?
What is a shatterbelt?
500
What term describes the movement of a state to transfer power from the central government to regional governments?
What is devolution?
500
The legal area where a state has rights to explore for and use marine resources up to 200 nautical miles from its coast is called what?
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
500
What is the connection between the political borders of Africa and the map above?
European colonial borders ignored ethnic and religious groups, which led to violence and conflict when these countries gained independence.
500
What is the strategy of concentrating opposing voters into one district to weaken their influence elsewhere?
What is packing?