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AP Human Geography Political Geography Review Chapter 8
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1
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
gerrymandering
delimitation
reapportionment
redistricting
2
As of 2005, which major European Union nation has not entered the Euro Monetary Zone?
Great Britain
Italy
France
Germany
3
The Peace of Westphalia ____________
marked the beginning of the modern state of Europe
ended the Crimean War
created West Germany after WWII
ushered in the colonial period
4
The Marshall Plan was a post-WW II endeavor by the United States to economically revive _____
Europe
Asia
Subsaharan Africa
Japan
5
A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,
is a region of ethnic conflict.
separates two states.
has become a more common means to separate states.
is an area rather than a line.
6
Which country has experienced violent devolution?
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Lithuania
7
The Kurds are a
nationality divided among more than one state
religious minority in the Middle East
trying to unite with Turkey
multinational state
8
The political economy of Canada would best be described as a
British colony.
Marxist-socialist state.
free-market parliamentary democracy.
supranational organization.
9
Most ________ states gained independence after 1940.
South Asian
African
European
East Asian
10
Boundaries of independent African states were drawn at the Berlin Conference and were drawn
along religious lines
arbitrarily
along ethnic lines
along national lines
11
The dominating colonial influence in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia was ___________
British
Dutch
Italian
French
12
A series of concrete pillars _________ the northern boundary of Kuwait with Iraq
defines
delimits
determines
demarcates
13
What proved the undoing of monarchical absolutism, its sys of patronage during Eur's rebirth?
the re-emergence of church power
growing economic and political power of merchants
colonization
an increasing population
14
Anthropologist Robert Ardery argued that humans are concerned with _________
concerned only with the securing of food.
securing weapons of war.
gaining and protecting national independence.
collecting and securing territory.
15
The boundary between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes is an example of a(n)
physical-political boundary.
mountain crest boundary.
geometric boundary.
river boundary.
16
Which of the following countries were former Communist states are now members of the EU?
Austria and Switzerland
Finland and Kazakhstan
Lithuania and Poland
Russia and Belarus
17
Wallerstein's views expressed in world systems theory hold that the global integrating force
socialism
colonial independence movements.
capitalism
nationalism
18
The present number of countries and territories in the world is around
200
300
400
175
19
Cohen’s Shatterbelt theory predicted that armed conflicts after 1950 would likely occur
along the borders of the Pivot Area and Inner Crescent.
within the Inner Crescent.
within the Pivot Area.
within the Outer Crescent.
20
An increasing number of states have adopted a federal form of government primarily to
satisfy the demands of competing nationalities
deploy scarce resources efficiently
govern compact states more effectively
ncourage the breakup of the superpower alliances
21
Two examples of absolute monarchies that exist today are
Turkey and Egypt.
China and Japan.
Saudi Arabia and Brunei.
Iceland and Japan.
22
The world's largest state is
Russia
Alaska
India
China
23
An area organized into an independent political unit is a
colony
suburb
nationality
state
24
Scotland and Wales are to the UK as ____________ are to Spain
Corsica and Sardinia
Kaliningrad and Lithuania
Galicia and Catalonia
Wallonia and Flanders
25
The movement of power from the central government to regional governments is referred to as
pluralism
devolution
supranationalism
revolution
26
Cultural boundaries include all but which of the following?
geomorphic
ethnic
religious
geometric
27
Listed among the challenges to the state in the 21st century are all the following except
nuclear weapons.
economic globalization.
the United Nations.
migration
28
Two supranational organizations whose origins are primarily economic are
NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
the League of Nations and the UN.
the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
29
What country do members of the European community worry will dominate the entire group?
Turkey
France
United Kingdom
Germany
30
A state with control over its internal affairs has
sovereignty
suffrage
centripetal forces
ethnicity
31
Following the disintegration of the former Soviet Union the only surviving superpower was
China
U.S.
France
Great Britain
32
Korea is a good example of a
nation-state
nation divided between more than one state
patron-state
sovereign state
33
A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a
unitary state.
federal state.
nation-state.
confederation.
34
Participation in the United Nations serves the useful purpose of committing states to ______
agreeing to world laws.
loan money to poorer ones.
acknowledging diplomatic missions.
international standards of behavior.
35
The first widespread use of the nation-state concept was in
the Roman Empire
Greece
Mesopotamia
Western Europe
36
Singapore can be classified as all the following except
an entrepot.
a sovereign state.
a microstate.
a dependent territory.
37
The conflict in Rwanda and Uganda in the mid-1990s is an example of a(n)
religious conflict.
ethnic conflict.
transnational conflict.
border conflict.
38
In 1997 Scotland took a major devolutionary step with the establishment of ________
independence from Britain.
the Scottish Parliament.
its own currency and passports.
its own diplomatic mission.
39
The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is
the Arctic
Greenland
Antarctica
Siberia
40
Which of the following is the best example of a nation-state?
Denmark
Vietnam
Romania
Argentina
41
Which is not characteristic of unitary state governments?
capital city functions as core of power
central government’s authority over all parts of the state
fosters diversity of regional subcultures
highly centralized
42
The European state idea spread throughout the world through ________
European colonialism.
League of Nations planning.
contagious diffusion.
economic development.
43
A boundary between countries is a
vertical plane that cuts through the rocks below, air above
line shown only on maps
line on the ground only
point of separation on and below the surface only
44
The border characteristics of political regions are
considered fuzzy.
finite delineations.
vernacular in popular definition.
measurable transition zones.
45
Which is an example of an allocational boundary dispute?
dispute over boundaries not covered by a treaty
dispute over right to resources crossed by intern boundaries
dispute along ethnic lines
dispute over interpretation of boundary treaty terminology
46
__________ is an example of a core country which was never a classical colonial power
Singapore
England
Germany
Netherlands
47
Yugoslavia was a prime example of a ________
stateless nation.
city-state.
multi-state nation.
multi-nation state.
48
A group of people who occupy an area and have a strong sense of unity based on shared beliefs
unitary state
nation
tribe
federal state
49
Padania is to Italy as Upper Silesia is to _________
Serbia
France
Poland
Germany
50
A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but
geometry
mountains
lakes
rivers