Political
Entities
Entities
A group of people who have a common cultural heritage, a set of beliefs and values that unify them, a traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland, and a desire to establish their own state or express self-rule in another way.
What is a nation?
An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state is known as a/an __________ _____.
What is a centripetal force?
Method of counting the population of a nation, state, or other geographic region. It records information about the population's characteristics such as age, gender, and occupation.
What is the census?
This type of boundary preceded the development of the cultural landscape.
What is an antecedent boundary?
A state's ________ _____ extends 12 nautical miles from its coast.
What is a territorial sea?
The Kurdish people have no independent political entity. They are a/an _______
What is a stateless nation?
Regionalism is a _________ force.
What is centrifugal?
The process of re-drawing political voting districts to favor one party.
What is gerrymandering?
This is a boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but evidence of it still exists on the landscape.
What is a relic boundary?
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction is known as a _____ _____. An example is the Strait of Hormuz.
What is a choke point?
A region that is endangered by local conflicts within the states or between countries in the region.
What is a shatterbelt?
High pollution and unequal access to clean water act as _________ forces.
What is centrifugal?
Packing and cracking are the two main _________ __ ______________.
What is methods of gerrymandering?
The boundary along the United States and Canada on the 49th parallel is an example of a _________ ________.
What is a geometric boundary?
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials is known as a ________ state. For example, China.
What is unitary?
The fragmentation of a larger sovereign state into smaller, ethnically similar states.
What is balkanization?
National is a _________ force. It becomes a _________ force when it turns into ethnonationalism.
What is centripetal, centrifugal?
Process of allocating legislative seats among voting districts so that each legislator represents approximately the same amount of people.
What is reapportionment?
The boundary between India and Pakistan, created for religious reasons, is an example of a __________ ________.
What is a consequent boundary?
In which nautical zone do resources of the territory belong to the country and foreign ships can pass through without permission?
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
Greenland is not its own state. It is considered a/an _________ _________.
What is an autonomous region?
Governments attempt to build _______ _______ throughout their populations in several ways by unifying institutions, nationalism and patriotism, acceptance of rules or laws, and the promotion of political equality, and customs and rituals based on citizenship.
What is political identity/unity?
When voters of the opposing party are scattered and divided among many districts to make it harder for them to win a majority, it is known as _________.
What is cracking?
The Berlin Conference created _______ (name a result).
What is the Scramble for Africa, landlocked states, cultural conflicts, superimposed boundaries, neocolonialism, colonialism, imperialism?
A modern example of __________ is Russia's claim that the Eastern Ukrainian territories that border Russia are actually ethnically Russian, therefore according to Russia, these areas should be apart of Russian territory.
What is irredentism?