FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

DC CHAPTER 8 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Colonialism

Answer:

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

Question 2: Balance of Power

Answer:

A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries.

Question 3: Anocracy

Answer:

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of two types.

Question 4: Frontier

Answer:

A zone separating two states in which neither state exercise political control.

Question 5: Compact state

Answer:

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.

Question 6: Colony

Answer:

A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.

Question 7: Sovereignty

Answer:

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Question 8: Federal state

Answer:

An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

Question 9: Fragmented state

Answer:

A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.

Question 10: Unitary state

Answer:

An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

Question 11: Landlocked state

Answer:

A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.

Question 12: Multiethnic state

Answer:

A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

Question 13: Boundary

Answer:

An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory.

Question 14: Perforated state

Answer:

A state that completely surrounds another one.

Question 15: City-state

Answer:

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

Question 16: Terrorism

Answer:

The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.

Question 17: Self-determination

Answer:

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Question 18: State

Answer:

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Question 19: Gerrymandering

Answer:

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Question 20: Prorupted state

Answer:

An otherwise compact state with a large projection extension.

Question 21: Multinational state

Answer:

A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

Question 22: Democracy

Answer:

A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

Question 23: Microstate

Answer:

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

Question 24: Nation-state

Answer:

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

Question 25: Autocracy

Answer:

A country that is run according to the interest of the ruler rather than the people.

Question 26: Elongated state

Answer:

A state with a long, narrow shape.