9.1
A branch of geography that deals with human governments, the boundaries, and subdivisions of political units.
What is the definition of political geography?
A state whose territory is inhabited by one ethnic group.
What is a nation-state?
A zone where no state exercises complete political control.
What is a frontier?
Citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
What is a democratic regime type?
What are the United Nations and the Cold War?
What is an area ruled by an established government that has control over its internal or external affairs?
The difference between a multiethnic and multinational state.
Why do multiethnic states have more than one ethnic group but ethnic groups in multinational states have self-government?
Types of physical boundaries.
What is a mountain, body of water, and deserts?
The definition of an autocratic regime.
Superpowers after WWII
What were the USSR (Soviet Union) and the USA?
The smallest and largest countries by land.
What are Russia (largest) and the Vatican (smallest)?
What is an example of a country with ethnic groups that have governmental autonomy?
Greenland and Denmark
Types of Geometric Boundaries.
What are a lines of latitude and longitude or straight lines on a map?
The difference between a unitary state and a federal state.
Why do unitary states have a central government but federal states have local government?
One example of a military and one example of an economic alliance in the aftermath of WWII.
What is the Warsaw Pact, COMECON, European Union, and NATO?
Requirements of sovereignty.
What is a country that controls its own domestic policies and foreign policies with no outside influences?
Controlled about 28.35% of the world's land until the 1950s.
What is the British Empire?
Types of Cultural Boundaries.
What are boundary lines based off religion, languages, ethnic differences.
What is North Korea?
Domestic Terrorism
What is the violent or criminal act committed to further ideological goals based on domestic influences?
Puerto Rico controls its own borders, and representation in the U.S. Congress but still have to follow the U.S. Constitution?
Why is Puerto Rico not sovereign?
TWO examples of a non-sovereign territory.
What is Hong Kong, Macao, Puerto Rico, and/or Greenland? (Only need 2)
Chile and Argentina.
Yukon Province and Alaska.
Ireland and Pakistan.
What is an example of a physical boundary, a geometric boundary, and an ethnic boundary?
Governments allow ethnic groups to self-govern through this state system.
What is a federal government?
One Example of a domestic terrorist group and one example of a foreign terrorist group.
What is Al-Qaeda, ISIS? (Foreign)
What is the Ku Klux Klan, or Aryan Nations, or Army of God? (Domestic)