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| What is the term for a group of people who identify with their cultural and biological history? A) Race. B) Ethnicity. C) Nationality. D) Nation. E) All of the above | show 🗑
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| Ethnocentrism is A) the fear of outsiders. C) the belief that ones own religion is superior to others. D) the belief that ones own ethnic group is superior to others. E) the belief that ones own culture is superior to all others. | show 🗑
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| Which statement about race and ethnicity is true? A) A race often has a single homeland, an ethnicity is usually scattered B) Some ethnicities are comprised of people from several different races. C) Race and ethnicity are interchangeable concepts. | show 🗑
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| A region not fully integrated into a national state that is often marginal or undeveloped is a called a A) stateless nation. B) frontier. C) core. D) heartland. E) functional | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is considered a State? A) France. B) Colorado. C) British Columbia. D) Sahel. E) Hong Kong. | show 🗑
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| The exercise of state power over people and territory, and being recognized by other international states, refers to A) nationalism. B) sovereignty. C) citizenship. D) centrifugalism. E) imperialism. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is considered a sovereign state? A) India. B) Alaska. C) Hong Kong. D) Antarctica. E) Spratly Islands. | show 🗑
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| In contrast to a state, a nation A) territory est. by military force. B) a cultural concept implying a group of people occupying a particlar territory n unified by shared beliefs. C) part of earth cont. a permt. population. | show 🗑
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| . Which of the following is an example of a nation seeking its own territory? A) Mexicans. B) Palestinians. C) British. D) English. E) Russians. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a characteristic of compact states? A) Circular w/ the capital located in the center of the state. C) One state is completely within the boundaries of another state. E) Size of the state is very small compared to others | show 🗑
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| This type of shape can provide for efficiency in administration of a country. A) Compact. B) Prorupt. C) Elongated. D) Perforated. E) Fragmented. | show 🗑
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| . Which of the following states fit the morphology description of a fragmented state? A) Chile. B) Japan. C) Mexico. D) South Africa. E) Poland. | show 🗑
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| Fragmented states can help create which type of forces within a state? A) Centripetal. B) Centrifugal. C) Cumulative causation. D) Backwash effects. E) Irredentism. | show 🗑
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| Which types of countries usually encompass diverse types of climates, resources and peoples? A) Compact. B) Prorupt. C) Elongated. D) Perforated. E) Fragmented. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following states best fits the morphology description of a fragmented state? A) France. B) Chile. C) Indonesia. D) Australia. E) China | show 🗑
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| A country’s morphology which can weaken its stability if an enclave is occupied by people whose values systems differ from the surrounding state is called A) Compact. B) Prorupt. C) Elongated. D) Perforated. E) Fragmented. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following states best fits the morphology description of a perforated state? A) Namibia. B) South Africa. C) China. D) Poland. E) United Kingdom. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following states is an enclave? A) Vatican City. B) South Africa. C) Italy. D) Singapore. E) Japan. | show 🗑
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| ________ became a landlocked state due to the results of the War of the Pacific? A) Bolivia. B) Brazil. C) India. D) Madagascar. E) Spain. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a landlocked State? A) Australia. B) Mongolia. C) Italy. D) Israel. E) Peru. | show 🗑
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| What is the term for a state that is small in both population and size? A) Macro-state. B) Micro-state. C) Compact state. D) Irredentism. E) Federal state. | show 🗑
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| . Which of the following best describes an impact of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for maritime micro states? A) The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) provisions increased the resources and economic viability of these states. | show 🗑
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| . A national group that aspires to become a nation-state but lacks the territory is a A) federal State. B) unitary State. C) stateless nation. D) Non Governmental Organization (NGO). E) supranationalistic. | show 🗑
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| The political dominance of a country or region by another country is referred to as A) insurgent state. B) revivalist. C) hegemony. D) pandemic. E) organic theory. | show 🗑
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| . A boundary that uses physiological features like rivers or mountains is referred to as a(n) A) geometric boundary. B) subsequent boundary. C) natural boundary. D) permeable barrier. E) ecumene. | show 🗑
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| All of the following are advantages of using mountains as boundaries except B) they create a visible, physical border between states. C) mountain regions are usually sparsely populated. E) they are the often the source area for natural resources. | show 🗑
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| . All of the following are ADvantages of using water as boundaries except that B) resource allocation can become a source of conflict. C) water creates relatively consistent boundaries over time. E) oceans create a buffer between states. | show 🗑
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| All of the following are DISADVANTAGES of using water as boundaries except for A) water navigation rights. B) water use rights. C) changing courses of rivers. D) buffer zones between States. E) resource and fishing rights. | show 🗑
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| . All of the following are advantages of using deserts as boundaries except for the fact that B) they create a visible, physical border between states. C) deserts contain natural resources. E) deserts are relatively permanent. | show 🗑
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| . Which of the following states use a desert as a boundary? A) Brazil and Peru. B) Canada and the United States. C) Iraq and Kuwait. D) China and India. E) Turkey and Syria. | show 🗑
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| The boundaries on this island were drawn primarily to divide the Greeks from the Turks. A) Cyprus. B) Australia. C) Sri Lanka. D) Indonesia. E) Falklands. | show 🗑
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| The boundaries of this country are being contested by the Palestinians. A) Serbia. B) Israel. C) Iraq. D) China. E) Sri Lanka. | show 🗑
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| This country used linguistic boundaries as a primary reason to establish their territory. A) United States. B) Peru. C) Australia. D) France. E) United Kingdom. | show 🗑
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| . Which region in the world has political boundaries that most poorly represent the linguistic boundaries of the region? A) North America. B) South America. C) Africa. D) East Asia. E) Europe. | show 🗑
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| Which region has a high percentage of geometric boundaries to separate states? A) North Africa. B) Europe. C) Southeast Asia. D) South America. E) Central Asia. | show 🗑
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| . Which of the following is not a purpose of boundaries? B) Project below ground to allocate subsurface resources. C) Mark political administrative divisions within a country. E) Create lanes of transportation between countries. | show 🗑
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| This type of boundary line is established before an area is well populated. A) Subsequent boundaries. B) Antecedent boundaries. C) Geometric boundary. D) Natural boundary. E) Linguistic boundary. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following countries’ internal boundaries are largely antecedent boundaries? A) Canada. B) Germany. C) Israel. D) Japan. E) India. | show 🗑
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| . A boundary that is drawn after the development of a cultural landscape is a(n) A) religious boundary. B) antecedent boundary. C) geometric boundary. D) subsequent boundary. E) superimposed boundary. | show 🗑
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| A boundary forced upon existing cultural landscapes, a country, or a people by a conquering or colonizing power is called a(n) A) religious boundary. B) antecedent boundary. C) geometric D) subsequent boundary. E) superimposed boundary. | show 🗑
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| 2 neighbors disagree about the color, material and size of a fence between their properties. Which term best shows this dispute? A Positional locational dis B Political dis C Resource allocation dis D Functional operational dis E Territorial dis | show 🗑
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| . A weaker country that separates two powerful countries whose ideology and or political views conflict is a A) core state. B) periphery state. C) fragmented state. D) buffer state. E) viable state. | show 🗑
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| A real world example of a buffer state would be? A) Mongolia. B) France. C) China. D) United States. E) Brazil. | show 🗑
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| The Israel/Palestine conflict has elements of all of the following types of disputes except a(n) A) functional / operational dispute. B) religious dispute. C) ethnic dispute. D) geometric dispute. E) territorial dispute. | show 🗑
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| The policy by a country to establish settlements in an area and impose its political, economic and cultural principles there is called A) command economy. B) colonialism. C) devolution. D) growth pole. E) regionalism. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following regions was not predominately colonized by the British? A) East Africa. B) South Asia. C) West Africa. D) South Africa. E) Australia. | show 🗑
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| A country imposes its political, economic and cultural principles over territory already occupied and organized by a society. This is called A) command economy. B) colonialism. C) devolution. D) imperialism. E) regionalism. | show 🗑
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| The concept that the United States was ordained by God to expand across North America was A) gateway state. B) complementarity. C) Manifest Destiny. D) Rimland Theory. E) historical inertia | show 🗑
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| . Which theory created in the early 20th century advocated that any political power based in the center of Eurasia could gain enough strength to dominate the world? A) Unilateral Theory. B) Mackinder’s Heartland Theory. C) World Systems Theory. | show 🗑
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| Africa experienced a period of decolonization and creation of many new States during which time period? A) 1950s and 60s. B) Late 19th century. C) 1700s. D) 1850s. E) 1930s. | show 🗑
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| . Which country had an apartheid system of legal segregation of races which was finally dismantled in the 1990s? A) United States. B) India. C) South Africa. D) China. E) Japan. | show 🗑
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| During the Cold War era which two countries balanced the power of one another? A) Pakistan/India. B) United Kingdom/France. C) Spain/Portugal. D) United States/Soviet Union. E) Japan/Germany. | show 🗑
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| This type of state has a centralized government and administration that exercises control equally over all parts of the state? A) Federal. B) Unitary. C) Compact. D) Regional. E) Democratic. | show 🗑
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| This type of political framework has a central government but each of the sub-national entities has representation and influence in the government process. A) Federal. B) Unitary. C) Compact. D) Communist. E) Democratic. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following countries is not a federal state? A) United States. B) Canada. C) France. D) Australia. E) United Kingdom. | show 🗑
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| . Political geographers consider which of the following as the core area of the United States? A) The Los Angeles-San Francisco area. B) The New York-Washington D.C. area. C) The Chicago-Detroit area. | show 🗑
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| . This type of capital city is deliberately sited in a state’s frontier zone? A) Core. B) Forward-thrust. C) Exclave. D) Divided. E) Networked | show 🗑
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| . __________ is a forward-thrust capital. A) Washington DC. B) London. C) Beijing. D) Brasilia. E) Baghdad. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a reason a country would select a forward-thrust capital site? A)encourage growth in2 the interior of a country B) take advnge of a coastal location E) reinforce the pwr n influence of a country’s core region | show 🗑
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| All of the following areas have recently experienced or were created through balkanization except A) Chechnya. B) Serbia. C) Estonia. D) Vietnam. E) Brazil. | show 🗑
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| These forces tend to bind together the citizens of a state. A) Centripetal. B) Centrifugal. C) Colonialism. D) Gravity. E) Regionalism. | show 🗑
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| All of the following tend to be centripetal forces within a country except A) education system. B) military. C) common language. D) regionalism. E) transportation system. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a centrifugal force within Sri Lanka? A) Religion. B) Ethnicity. C) Language. D) History of conflict. E) Equal representation in government. | show 🗑
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| This sub field of geography studies the political, economic and strategic significance of geography? A) Linguistics. B) Econometrics. C) Geopolitics. D) Anthropology. E) Demography. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following states is not universally recognized as an independent state by the United Nations? A) South Africa. B) South Korea. C) Turkey. D) Taiwan. E) Sri Lanka. | show 🗑
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| Which entities has increasingly gained both econ n political power on a global scale in the 21st century via globalization? A) Transnational corporations. B) Sub-regional governments. C) City-states. D) Landlocked states. E) Rural areas. | show 🗑
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| Which best describes the effect of globalization related to state sovereignty? A) States sovereignty has increased bc globalization B) States have given up some sovereignty in order to join supra-nationalistic organizations E) State sovereignty inc | show 🗑
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| Select the group that is not a supranational organization. A) EU. B) OAS. C) OPEC. D) CIA. E) NATO. | show 🗑
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| NAFTA is a Supranationalistic organization, which attempted to create a free trade zone in which region? A) North Africa. B) North Atlantic. C) New Zealand and Australia. D) North America. E) Nigerian and Arab countries. | show 🗑
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| An area in which businesses are exempt from certain taxes and govt regulations 2 give other econ advants as an inducement to promote growth or trade. A) Realm. B) Enterprise zones. C) Perceptual region. E) Economies of scale. | show 🗑
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| This symbolic term refers to the division between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the rest of Europe after World War II. A) Cold War. B) Iron Curtain. C) Great Wall. D) Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). E) Line of Control. | show 🗑
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| A state of conflict, tension and competition existed between the 1940s and 1990s between which two countries? A) China and India. B) United States and Soviet Union. C) China and Taiwan. D) India and Pakistan. E) Israel and Palestine. | show 🗑
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