Unit 5
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Command Economy | system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority
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| Traditional Economy | a system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; exists in only a few parts of the world today
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| Market Economy | an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned and production and prices are determined by supply and demand
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| More Developed Country | a country which has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less developed nations
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| Less Developed Country | a country which, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development
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| Sovereignty | supreme power or authority
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| Gerrymandering | the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the political party in power
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| Political Boundaries | a demarcation line that separates states, provinces, or countries from each other
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| Physical Boundaries | boundary based on the physical feature of the natural landscape such as a mountain change or mountain range
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| Cultural Boundaries | boundary between two states due to their cultural differences
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| Superimposed | a political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape
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| Supranational Organizations | is an organization, group, or union made of multiple countries that relinquish a certain amount of government power to the union
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| Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
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| Neocolonialism | the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control of influence other countries, especially former dependencies
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| Compact State | a state that posses a roughly circular shape from which the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions
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| Prorupted State | a state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory
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| Perforated State | a state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state
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| Elongated State | a state whose territory is long and narrow in shape
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| Landlocked State | a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
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| Fragmented State | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
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| Nationalism | belief in the right of each people to be an independent nation
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| Buffer State | a small neutral state between two rival powers
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| Balkanization | division of a region into smaller hostile regions
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