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Ch. 8 & 9
Political Geography & Development
| #1 Questions | #1 Answers |
|---|---|
| As a result of a 1979 Soviet invasion, what country generated one of the world's largest refugee migrations? | Afghanistan |
| An area organized into an independent political unit is a __________. | State |
| A group of people who occupy a particular area and have a strong sense of unity based on a set of shared beliefs is a __________. | Nation |
| A state with control over its internal affairs has __________. | Sovereignty |
| Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world has increased by more than __________. | 100 |
| The world's largest state (country) is __________. | Russia |
| Korea is a good example of a __________. | Nation divided among more than one state |
| Large size is an asset for a state becuase it is able to __________. | Produce a larger supply of food, posses a larger suppl of raw materials, withstand a limited nuclear war |
| Name three similarities between China and Taiwan. | Both were once ruled by Nationalists, both consider that the two areas form one sovereign state, both have official relationships iwth the United States |
| The Fertile Crescent ___________. | Followed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, extended from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, was another name for Mesopotamia |
| The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is ________. | Antarctica |
| The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were ____________. | City-states |
| Political unity in the ancient world reached its height in ___________. | The Roman Empire |
| A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent is a ________. | Colony |
| The first widespread use of the nation-state concept came in ____________. | Western Europe |
| The attempt by one country to impose political control over another territory is ___________. | Colonialism |
| The motives of European states in be summarized as _________. | God, gold, glory |
| By 1900, the British could claim what about their empire? | The sun never set, their colonies were located on every continent, theirn empire was larger than that of any other European state |
| The world's smallest colony is _________. | Pitcairn |
| A state is a good example of ___________. | An organized region |
| A fronteir, in contrast to a boundary, is an _________ rather than a line. | Area |
| Which shape most easily fosters the establishment of effective internal communications for a smaller state? | Compact |
| The Germans established the proruption known as the Caprivi Strip in present-day Namibia because _______? | Access to resources in central Africa, disruption of British communications |
| A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes _________? | Desert, mountain, water |
| The boundary between the United States and Mexico is best described as __________? | Geometry, language, water (all three) |
| Boundaries were redrawn in much of Eruope after World War I according to the __________? | Distribution of languages |
| The Aozou Strip is a good example of a _________ boundary. | Geometric |
| The problems experienced by Cyprus during the past two decades include _________. | A Greek-inspired military coup, a Turkish army invasion, an increasing spatial segregation of Greeks and Turks |
| With the breakup of the Soviet Unition, nearly all Russians are ________. | Clustered in Russia's western regions |
| Conflict is widespread in Afica in part because ________. | the European colonial powers drew inappropriate boundaries |
| The Kurds are an example of a __________. | Nationality divided among more than one state |
| Among the Azerbaijanis, Armenians, and Kurds, the Azerbaijanis are the only group that ___________. | Speak an Altaic language |
| Development refers to an improvement in ___________. | Material conditions |
| The difference in per capita GDP between the more developed and less developed regions is _________. | Widening |
| On a north polar projection, less developed countries appear to be located _________. | In peripheral locations |
| The value of total output of goods and services in a year in a country is its ________. | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
| In 1995, the per capita GDP in Sudan was about $400; this indictates that it is a _________. | Less Developed Country (LDC) |
| Per capita GDP is a good indicator of ___________. | The distribution of wealth within a country |
| An example of a primary sector activity is _________. | Mining, farming |
| Processing of computer information is an example of which sector? | Tertiary |
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