Deck 7: Political Geography.

Question 1

How does a nation differ from a state?

A) Geographers use both terms to refer to countries of the world.
B) State refers to the land, while nation refers to the type of government.
C) Nation is based on a group of people with a shared identity, but not how they are governed.
D) Only nations have control over their own affairs and freedom from control by outside forces.
E) Nations are sovereign, but states are not.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In the United States, it is constitutional to deliberately create majority-minority electoral districts.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Reapportionment and redistricting are the primary methods used to avoid gerrymandering in the United States.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Without information on current political issues, in which situation would the risk of devolution probably be the smallest?

A) A compact state such as Macedonia.
B) An elongated state such as Chile.
C) A prorupt state such as Namibia.
D) A fragmented state such as the Philippines.
E) A perforated state such as South Africa.

Question 5

Harold Mackinder, a British geographer and member of Parliament, contributed a geopolitical theory called:

A) the theory of the organic state.
B) the domino theory.
C) colonialism.
D) the heartland theory.
E) imperialism.

Question 6

When a state transfers some power to one of its constituent parts, the process is called devolution.

Question 7

The attacks of 9/11 changed the world because these events were the first use of terrorism in the world.

Question 8

Most of the countries of the world are:

A) nation-states.
B) nation-states in name only since they have competing political parties.
C) multi-national states to some degree.
D) multi-national states because they exhibit nationalism.
E) still colonies since imperialism remains active.

Question 9

In Mackinder's theory, whoever controlled the heartland (the interior of North America) would be able to exert world control.

Question 10

Today, the world has:

A) 50 states.
B) 140 states.
C) approximately 194 states, but with some questions.
D) over 600 states.
E) a number of states that cannot be determined because of inconsistent definitions.

Question 11

Since the boundary between Bulgaria and Romania follows the Danube River, this boundary is described as:

A) a physiographic boundary.
B) a geometric boundary.
C) an ethnographic boundary.
D) a relic boundary.
E) a territorial sea boundary.

Question 12

When countries are members of supranational organizations such as the United Nations or the European Union, they:

A) seek to attain their imperialist goals.
B) give up their sovereignty.
C) simply continue a 200- or 300-year tradition of membership.
D) believe they can attain economic, military, or cultural goals by working together.
E) follow the guidelines of the 1957 Treaty of Rome.

Question 13

An image, object, or symbol that conveys a political message is known as:

A) colonialism
B) devolution
C) geopolitics
D) political iconography
E) security landscapes

Question 14

The European Union and the Euro Zone include the same countries.

Question 15

To be a state of the world requires acceptance by other states.

Question 16

Following the 2000 census, Arizona's congressional districts were redistricted because:

A) redistricting was needed to eliminate gerrymandering.
B) correction of errors in the census required redistricting.
C) the political parties saw an opportunity to gerrymander the state.
D) all states must redistrict following the census of population.
E) redistricting assures that minority voters are evenly distributed among the districts.

Question 17

The security landscape of modern society is illustrated with well-marked highways and easily read traffic signs.

Question 18

The process of allocating legislative seats among voting districts so that each legislator represents approximately the same number of people is known as:

A) reapportionment.
B) redistricting.
C) gerrymandering.
D) colonialism.
E) imperialism.

Question 19

A supranational organization consists of four or more states that agree to work together for a common economic, military, cultural, or political purpose, or a combination of these.

Question 20

A nation is a sizable group of people with shared political aspirations whose collective identity is rooted in a common history, heritage, and attachment to a specific territory.