Unit 5 Political Patterns & Processes

Russia's attempt to take territory in Ukraine is an example of

• Ethnic separtism

• Irredentism

• Self-determination

• Devolution

Which of the following is NOT a requirement to be a state?

• Be sovereign

• Have recognized borders

• Be recognized as a country by other countries

• Be ethnically distinct as a group of people

• Have a permanent population

A country's sports team, flag, another country attacking, a symbol of a country, holidays

• Centripetal forces

• Centrifugal forces

A group controlling another group or asserting control over an area, the expression of a group's history, connection to the land, their culture and their economic systems is ____

• Devolution

• Neocolonialism

• Colonialism

• Territoriality

Tend to be efficient, laws are implemented quickly, evenly and fairly

• Unitary state

• Federal state

African countries economic reliance on China's SEZs and their investment in different countries' development is an example of __

• Colonialism

• Neocolonialism

• Chokepoints

• Irridentism

This picture is an example of what type of boundary?

• Defining

• Delimit

• Relic(t)

• Antecedent

The border created between Indian and Pakistan that separates Hindu and Muslim populations after many deadly clashes is a ___ boundary

• Consequent

• Subsequent

• Geometric

• Demarcated

Which of the following would be considered a nation-state?

• Japan

• Korea

• Kurds

• United States

Which of the following is NOT true of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)?

• a country's territorial seas extend 12 nautical miles off its coast

• A country's EEZ extends 200 nautical miles from its coast

• States have complete sovereignty over their territorial seas

• States do not have sole access to the resources found within the water & on the sea floor

• Countries are to use sound environmental practices