What is gerrymandering?

Reapportionment to benefit a political party

What is an example of demarcating a boundary?

marking an inter-state boundary with a series of pillars

What and where were the first states?

B) City-States; Fertile Crescent

Gaining the right to vote in an electoral system

What is reapportionment?

Reshaping of districts so that all have equal populations

What is a state with more than one nation in it - and an example?

Multinational state - Yugoslavia

What is a buffer zone?

Where two countries agree to not a portion of land

What is a supranational organization?

A venture of three or more states for a shared objective.

What are the five shapes of states?

Compact, Elongated, Prorupted, Perforated, and Fragmented

What are electoral regions?

The voting regions that make up local-national regions

What are the characteristics of a border?

An imaginary line that separates two states

What is the difference between geometric and physical-political boundaries?

phys are based on land features, geo based on long/lat

A politically organized territory with a government

A country establishing territories to impose their values.

How are countries classified in the world's economy? (Highest to lowest)

As Core, Semi-periphery, periphery

What is a nation-state?

A state and nation that occupy the same territory

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1
What is the longest geometric boundary not guarded by military forces?
US-Canada Border
Chile-Argentina Border
US-Mexico Border
Korea Border
2
What is gerrymandering?
Formation of elongated states
The consumption of products in "spines" spreading from CBD
A cultural phenomenon commonly seen in India
Reapportionment to benefit a political party
3
What is an example of demarcating a boundary?
none of the these
a dispute over territory with vaguely defined borders
marking an inter-state boundary with a series of pillars
creating a binding agreement establishing a state’s borders
4
What and where were the first states?
D) City-States; Greece
B) City-States; Fertile Crescent
C) Estates; Europe
A) Provinces; Roman Empire
5
What is a dispute over natural resources?
Definitional
Operational
Locational
Allocational
6
What are centrifugal forces?
Forces that create a state
Forces that divide a state
Forces that unify a state
7
What is suffrage?
All of these
Gaining the right to vote in an electoral system
The gaining of economic power
The suffering of the native peoples of a state
8
What is the size of a microstate?
Smaller than 1000 km
Smaller than 500 km
Larger than 100 people per square mile
Smaller than 750 km
9
What is the study of the political organization of the world called?
Political geography
Geopolitical morphology
Political topography
Governmental studies
10
Most ________ states gained independence after 1940.
American
Mediteranean
African
European
11
What is the ideal shape of a compact state?
Perforated
Circular
Hexagonagal
Prorupted
12
When the British settled in the Americas, was it considered colonialism or imperialism?
Neither
Imperialism
Colonialism
Both
13
What began the modern state system?
Peace of Westphalia
The Articles of the Confederation
Karl der Große’s Decree of Sovereignty
Treaty of Paris
14
Where did the first widespread use of nation-states appear?
Greenland
Asia
Europe
Africa
15
What is reapportionment?
Redistribution of countries according to natural resources
Reshaping of districts so that all have equal populations
Redistribution of wealth in a socialist economy
Redistribution of countries following new legal documents
16
What is a state with more than one nation in it - and an example?
Multinational state - Yugoslavia
Multistate nation - Kurdistan
Multistate nation - Yugoslavia
Stateless nation- Kurdistan
17
The global economy is primarily:
Shamanist
Socialist
Anachronistic
Capitalist
18
What is a buffer zone?
Where two countries agree to not a portion of land
An area where two countries share a plot of land
Similar to a maquiladora
type of receiving state that is a target of many immigrants
19
How many states does the UN recognize?
193
192
16
50
20
What two military alliances were created after World War II involving many European countries?
NATO and Warsaw Pact
League of Nations and United Nations
NAFTA and United Nations
AU and USSR
21
What is a supranational organization?
A venture of two or more states for a shared objective
A venture of three or more states for a shared objective.
A venture of four or more states for a shared objective.
22
What are the five shapes of states?
Diagonal, Linear, Halo, Absolute, Cracked
Igneous, Shale, Fracking, Icicular, hippocrepiform
Compact, Elongated, Prorupted, Perforated, and Fragmented
Irregular, Asymmetrical, Curved, Circular, Enrupted
23
Who created the heartland theory?
Carrie Honson
Thomas Malthus
Friedrich Ratzel
Halford MacKinder
24
What is an example of a unitary government?
The U.N.
The U.S. Goverment
Surveillance of citizens’ private activities
The Soviet government
25
Which of the following is a semi-peripheral country?
Russia
Nicaragua
Greenland
Austria
26
What are electoral regions?
Areas where presidents are from
Regions voted to be part of a city, state, or nation.
The voting regions that make up local-national regions
A region defined by the governmental areas around it.
27
What are the characteristics of a border?
An imaginary line that separates two states
A line drawn on the surface of the Earth
A preexisting line used to seperate two states
Physical and cultural features used to separate states
28
What is the boundary dispute which focuses on legal language?
Allocational
Locational
Operational
Definitional
29
What is the difference between geometric and physical-political boundaries?
phys are based on land features, geo based on long/lat
Geometric are formed using hard math, phys/pol are magics
Geometric are a conspiracy, phys/pol are not
Geometric are based on land features, phys/pol are long/lat
30
What is the UN's primary purpose?
Peacekeeping
Military Alliances
Total and complete destruction to the world.
To increase the effect of capitalism on the world's economy
31
What is a state?
A place of being like water Ex: Ice, Water, Vapor
A politically organized territory with a government
An area with a local government, Ex: Wisconsin
A group of people distinct from one another by beliefs
32
What supranational organization that failed was formed after WWI?
League of Nations
United Nations
NAFTA
S.H.I.E.L.D.
33
What is colonialism?
A country establishing territories to impose their values.
The process of examining a colony
The imposition of a new leading power within a country
invading a country for resources, then leaving
34
What was a result of the European Union being formed?
A common currency was formed
All of the Above
Countries prospered economically
Power was balanced between states
35
How are countries classified in the world's economy? (Highest to lowest)
As Core, Periphery, Semi-periphery
As Periphery, Core, Semi-periphery
As Core, Semi-periphery, periphery
As Periphery, Semi-periphery, Core
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What is a nation-state?
A region with many different ideologies struggling for power
A state and nation that occupy the same territory
A state with many different competing political parties
A nation that stretches into multiple states

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