APHG Ch 8 Vocab Rvw

Question 1

Right of a state to defend sovereign territory

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Territorial integrity

Question 2

Tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, and cultural attributes

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Nation

Question 3

Places where core & periphery processes both occur

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Semi-periphery

Question 4

Moving power from the central government to regional governments

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Devolution

Question 5

Wallerstein's 3-tiered structure that says social change in developing world is linked to world economic activities

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World-systems theory

Question 6

Political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or arc

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Geometric boundary

Question 7

The European Union is an example of...

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3+ nation-states cooperating for shared objectives

Question 8

A vertical plane dividing one state from another

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Boundary

Question 9

Forces that tend to unify a country

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Centripetal

Question 10

Having a recognized right to control a territory both politically & militarily

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Sovereignty

Question 11

Nation-state w/ a centralized govt & have power over the whole nation-state

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Unitary

Question 12

Spatial organization of political governance

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Political geography

Question 13

Kurds & Palestinians are an example of what?

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stateless nation

Question 14

Forces that tend to divide a country

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Centrifugal

Question 15

Process to move districts according to population shifts

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Reapportionment

Question 16

Processes that have higher education/salary levels and more technology

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Core

Question 17

Processes that have lower education/salary levels and less technology

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Periphery

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