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- 1. Multiple Choice
Based on the map, which of the following can be identified as a true statement about Northern Ireland?
It is a stateless nation, as the entire island of Ireland is under the control of the United Kingdom.
It is a frontier that is not formally part of a state, but the United Kingdom claims the area.
It forms its own sovereign nation-state predominately made up of the Irish ethnic group.
It is united with the rest of the island to form a sovereign nation-state.
It is physically separate from the rest of the United Kingdom, a multinational state.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following terms identifies the type of regions shown in the dark gray-shaded areas on the map?
Functional regions
Urban regions
Vernacular regions
Physical regions
Semiautonomous regions
- 3. Multiple Choice
Owing to their localized geography or their locations on islands or peninsulas, many small political entities such as those labeled on the political map of the world can be identified as
nation-states
multistate nations
autonomous republics
federal states
colonial territories
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following terms refers to an area of instability located between regions with opposing political and cultural values?
Heartland
Rimland
Enclave
Gerrymandered area
Shatterbelt
- 5. Multiple Choice
The map above shows the countries in Africa where private investors and foreign governments have leased farmland for large-scale commercial farming. Usually much of the food produced is bound for wealthier nations. This practice is an example of
decolonization
Pan-Africanism
neocolonialism
imperialism
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following explains why Korea and Vietnam were viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War?
Korea and Vietnam experienced conflict due to a dispute between global powers.
Korea and Vietnam fragmented into new states due to internal tensions.
Korea and Vietnam tried to control land and sea areas around their states.
Korea and Vietnam kept two political adversaries geographically separated.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a shatterbelt region?
Siberia
Western Europe
South America
Eastern Europe
- 8. Multiple Choice
The former international border between East Germany and West Germany is best described as
a relic boundary
an open border
a demilitarized zone
a geometric boundary
- 9. Multiple Choice
The boundaries of congressional districts of the United States are
redrawn every ten years
set according to a process developed by the writers of the United States Constitution
drawn to cross over state boundaries
redrawn after every presidential election
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes an example of a consequent boundary?
Canada created the province of Nunavut to provide greater autonomy for the First Nations.
The Berlin Wall between East and West Germany no longer exists, but the location is still evident.
European powers divided Africa at the Berlin Conference and drew boundaries across the continent.
The United States–Canadian boundary was set at the 49th parallel by a treaty before the area was settled.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a likely outcome of gerrymandering?
Packing areas of minority group voters into a single legislative representative’s district
Splitting areas of majority group voters across a number of legislative representatives' districts
Disrupting electronic polling machines or the data networks run by elections officials
- 12. Multiple Choice
Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by
European colonial powers in the late-nineteenth century
seventeenth-century European explorers
UN peacekeeping missions in the 1950s and 1960s
decolonization movements of the 1950s and 1960s
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Berlin Conference established the borders of North African countries including Egypt, Libya, and Sudan. The landscape of these countries influenced the types of boundaries imposed by the European colonial powers. Which of the following boundary types best explains the influence of landscape on the political borders of the North African region?
Natural, with irregular lines, accounting for regional physical features such as mountains or water bodies
Antecedent, based on tribal cultural boundaries that existed before European colonization
Subsequent, with smaller buffer states placed between larger states to prevent political conflicts
Geometric, with straight lines, disregarding physical features or tribal cultural differences of the areas
Consequent, accounting for local differences in language and religion during European colonization
- 14. Multiple Choice
Boundaries based on the median-line principle are generally associated with
bodies of water
mountain ridges
unsettled frontier zones
major highways
converging ethnic territories
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains the governance of the shaded areas shown on the map?
These areas are lands of indigenous peoples that are sovereign independent states at an international scale.
These areas show where indigenous peoples have a limited amount of self-government at a national scale.
These areas show territory occupied by indigenous peoples as stateless nations at a local scale.
These areas show territory controlled by indigenous peoples as a single multistate nation.
- 16. Multiple Choice
United Nations recognition of a state's "exclusive economic zone" allows the state to
form limited economic alliances with other countries
limit importation of competitive goods and services from other countries
establish economic free trade zones within the sovereign territory of other states
protect domestic production by imposing tariffs on all foreign-made products
claim national economic jurisdiction over 200 nautical miles of water extending from its coast
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes typical characteristics of federal states?
A fragmented land area and a single ethnic group
A compact shape and a primate city
A large land area and multiple ethnic groups
A small land area and high population density
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes a federal form of governance?
Autonomous regions act outside the authority of a central government.
Federal states encourage devolutionary movements and break apart quickly.
Laws are enacted in a single language to promote cultural unity.
Multiple substates have local control and are unified to pursue common goals at the national level.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following describes a unitary form of governance?
Stronger states and transnational corporations indirectly control weaker states.
A state’s more powerful central government shares power with its regions
A state has a strong central government with no power given to regions.
A collection of independent communities shares government services.
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