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Chapter 14 Test
Political Culture and the Evolving State
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Geography
9th Grade
01/31/2009

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Term
What are the 3 basics to human culture?
Definition
Political Activity, Language, Religion
Term
What is the study of the political organization of the planet?
Definition
Political Geography
Term
How many countries are in the world (on the political map)?
Definition
over 200
Term
What does Landlocked mean?
Definition
Without coasts on the open sea
Term
Who studies the spatial manifestations of political processes at various levels of scale?
Definition
Political Geographers
Term
What do maps we draw reflect?
Definition
Political Culture
Term
What are governments that goes under the control of a ruler who is under control of religious leaders?
Definition
Theocracies
Term
What is the opposite of a Theocracy?
Definition
Secular State
Term
What is the key component of geographic research?
Definition
Effort to control pieces of Earth's surface for political and social ends
Term
Who used the tern "human territory"?
Definition
Robert Sack (1986)
Term
What is a key ingredient in social and political space construction?
Definition
Human Territory
Term
Who wrote "The Territorial Impervative" in 1966?
Definition
Robert Adery
Term
What is an example of territoriality?
Definition
Golan Heights
Term
What does the term "Country" come from?
Definition
"Contra" (Latin) means against or on the opposite side
Term
What does the term "State" come from?
Definition
"Status" (Latin) means standing
Term
When is "state" capitalized?
Definition
When it means a part of a country
Term
T/F: Nation and state or country are interchangeable.
Definition
False- one of the most common errors
Term
What do people in a state share?
Definition
Nationality
Term
What country is a state but not a nation?
Definition
Yugoslavia
Term
What is a group of people who share historic, ethnic, linguistic, and religious connotations?
Definition
Nation
Term
What is the most popular stateless nation?
Definition
Kurds
Term
T/F: All nations posses national territory.
Definition
False
Term
In the 1990's who controlled parts of a future state?
Definition
Palestinian Arabs
Term
How many Palestinians are there?
Definition
6.5 million
Term
How many Palestinians are in Jordan?
Definition
2.1 million
Term
How many Palestinians are in Lebanon?
Definition
400,000
Term
How many Palestinians are in Syria?
Definition
350,000
Term
How many states make up Kurdistan?
Definition
6 states
Term
How many Kurds are in Kurdistan?
Definition
over 20 million
Term
What is the largest minority in Turkey?
Definition
Kurds
Term
What is the capital of Turkey?
Definition
Diyarbakir
Term
What are the building blocks of international society?
Definition
States
Term
What influenced the modern state system?
Definition
European state idea
Term
Where are the origins of the European model?
Definition
SE Mediterranean Sea shores
Term
The ideas of statehood in Europe laid dormant until feudalism gave way to what?
Definition
Reconsolidation
Term
What was the most significant event in the European Model?
Definition
1066 Norman invasion of England
Term
The peace of Westphaila is the 1st major step in the emergence of of the European State according to what?
Definition
Political-Geographic perspective
Term
What was Europe's most destructive war?
Definition
30 years war
Term
What laid the foundation for Europe's made up national states?
Definition
1648 treaties
Term
In West Europe what became the national consciousness focus points?
Definition
Monarchs
Term
What are opposers to monarchs?
Definition
Aristocrats
Term
What is the name for Europe's rebirth?
Definition
Renaissance
Term
Who was the personification of absolute rule that prevailed in Europe during the late Renaissance?
Definition
Louis XIV of France
Term
The events of Europe's boundary changing happened during when?
Definition
French Revolution (1789-1795)
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T/F: Europe's political revolution isn't over now.
Definition
True
Term
What is a variation of the European Model?
Definition
Nation-State
Term
What is the literal meaning of a Nation-State?
Definition
An area where a nation and state occupy the same area
Term
What is the final authority over a territory's political and military affairs?
Definition
Sovereinty
Term
What came from a fusion of regime of sovereignty that emerged in Central Europe after the 30 year war and French Revolution?
Definition
Nation-State
Term
What is the 30 years war end with?
Definition
Peace of Wisfalia
Term
What defined the ground rules of emerging international state system and nation-state model?
Definition
Peace of Wisfalia
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T/F: The existence of Nation-States depends on how someone defines nation.
Definition
True
Term
What does a traditional nation have?
Definition
Homogeneity
Term
How many Traditional Nations are there?
Definition
Almost none
Term
What is an example of a national spirit nation?
Definition
Switzerland
Term
How big is the largest state territory?
Definition
17 million squared kilometers (6.6 million squared miles)
Term
What is the norm size of state territories?
Definition
7.5 million squared kilometers (3 million squared miles)
Term
How big are microstates?
Definition
less than 1000 squared kilometers (400 squared miles)
Term
How many people are in China?
Definition
1.3 billion
Term
How many people are in Iceland?
Definition
250,000
Term
What is necessary for a state to succeed?
Definition
Legitimacy
Term
What does nation development come from?
Definition
Education propaganda or periods of war or nationhood spirit
Term
What are the 4 main features of the European model?
Definition
Clearly defined territory, substantial population, organized structures, power
Term
What are the 4 main features of the European model?
Definition
Clearly defined territory, substantial population, organized structures, power
Term
What is the key ingredient of the European model?
Definition
Territory
Term
What can no state exist without?
Definition
Territory
Term
Who sees Palestinians as stateless nations?
Definition
United Nations
Term
What do differences in territory amount translate into?
Definition
Opportunities and Challenges
Term
What do the territorial size, shape, and relative location make up?
Definition
Territorial Morphology
Term
T/F: A big and small size of a nation can be both good and bad.
Definition
True
Term
T/F: The influence of the development of regions and states don't determine political, social, and economic well-being.
Definition
True
Term
What is a compact state?
Definition
A state where the distance from geometric center to any point on the boundary didn't vary greatly.
Term
What is a fragmented state?
Definition
A state that has 2 or more pieces (Philippines)
Term
What is an elongated state?
Definition
A state that is 6 times longer than its width (Chile, Vietnam)
Term
What is a protrupt state?
Definition
A state that has a protruded area from a more compact area (Southern part of Thailand)
Term
What is a perforated state?
Definition
A state that has another country inside its country boundary (South Africa by Lestho)
Term
What country doesn't tap resources for its own benefit?
Definition
Congo
Term
What two countries don't have resources?
Definition
Switzerland and Japan
Term
What is an exclave?
Definition
A piece of land separated from its homeland
Term
What is an example of an exclave?
Definition
Nakhichevan outside Azerbaijan
Term
What is an enclave?
Definition
A piece of a country completely surrounded by another country
Term
What is an example of an enclave?
Definition
Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan out of Armenia
Term
What has the largest number of landlocked states?
Definition
Africa
Term
What are boundaries?
Definition
Vertical planes that go through the subsoil and up through the air
Term
What two countries share a gas reserve?
Definition
Germany and the Netherlands
Term
What two countries share the Rumaylah oil reserve?
Definition
Iraq and Kowait
Term
What is airspace?
Definition
The atmosphere above a state's land
Term
How many stages does a boundary evolve through?
Definition
3
Term
What is the first step of the Evolution of a Boundary?
Definition
An agreement is reached on the rough positioning of the border
Term
What does the exact location of a boundary come from?
Definition
Definition
Term
What is the second step of the Evolution of a Boundary?
Definition
Cartographers put boundaries on maps
Term
What is the actual addition of boundaries on a map?
Definition
Delimination
Term
What is the third step of the Evolution of a Boundary?
Definition
Marking the boundary on the ground
Term
What is the marking of a boundary on the ground?
Definition
Demarcation
Term
What is a straight line boundary?
Definition
Geometric boundary
Term
What is a boundary that uses land features for lines?
Definition
Physical (Natural)-political boundary
Term
What does that stability of a boundary often have to do with?
Definition
Local, Historical, and Geographical circumstances
Term
What are boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape?
Definition
Cultural-political boundaries
Term
What were cultural-political boundaries formerly called?
Definition
Anthropogographic boundaries
Term
Who was the genetic boundary classification pioneered by?
Definition
Richard Hartshorne
Term
What is a boundary formed before a cultural landscape emerged?
Definition
Antecedent boundary
Term
What is an example of an antecedent boundary?
Definition
Malaysia and Indonesia on Borneo
Term
What is a boundary formed after a cultural landscape took shape?
Definition
Subsequent boundary
Term
What is an example of a subsequent boundary?
Definition
China and Vietnam
Term
What is a boundary forcibly drawn across unified cultural landscape?
Definition
Superimposed boundary
Term
What is an example of a superimposed boundary?
Definition
North and South Korea
Term
What is a boundary that ceased to function but whose imprints are still evident on cultural landscape?
Definition
Relict boundary
Term
What term is misused with boundary?
Definition
Frontiers
Term
What is a zone of separation between communities, clusters, groups, and states?
Definition
Frontier
Term
What is Earth's last land frontier?
Definition
Antarctica
Term
T/F: The notion that boundaries could serve as fortifications endured into the mid 20th century.
Definition
True
Term
What was built in 1961 to keep Germans out of Berlin?
Definition
Berlin Wall
Term
What serves as defensive functions, mark limits of state jurisdiction, and serve as symbols of state sovereignty?
Definition
Boundaries
Term
T/F: Boundaries only divide the world politically.
Definition
False
Term
What is Louisiana divided into?
Definition
Parishes
Term
What is Canada divided into?
Definition
10 provinces, 2 federal territories, and 1 self-governing homeland for Inuits
Term
What is Quebec of Canada for?
Definition
French-speaking Canadians
Term
How many more people does India have than the United States?
Definition
4 times
Term
What is India divided into?
Definition
28 states and 6 union territories
Term
What are the 4 forms of boundary disputes?
Definition
Definitional, Locational, operational, Allocational
Term
What type of boundary dispute is about the legal language of a boundary agreement?
Definition
Defitional Boundary Agreement
Term
What is the solution to a defitional boundary dispute?
Definition
Redefine the definition to suit both parties
Term
What type of boundary dispute has to do with the delimination and demarcation of the border?
Definition
Locational boundary dispute
Term
In a locational boundary dispute what is in dispute?
Definition
Interpretation, not definition
Term
What type of boundary involves neighbors who differ over the way their boundary should function?
Definition
Operational boundary dispute
Term
What are boundary disputes over resource arguments?
Definition
Allocational language disputes
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