Chapter 9 Vocab Quiz

When you identify the location of a border on a map.

• delimit
• demarcate
• define
• administer

When you visibly mark a border with an object, fence, sign, etc.

• delimit
• demarcate
• define
• administer

A comprehensive attempt to create a unified system of governance based on national ownership of the world's oceans.

• NATO
• UNCLOS
• UN
• YMCA

The right of people to choose their own form of government/political status.

• self-determination
• sovereignty
• colonialism
• devolution

Cultural entities, made up of individuals who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, culture, etc.

• nation
• state
• region
• ethnic group

A region where states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent conflict, like the Balkans.

• shatterbelts
• multistates
• devolution
• stateless nations

A narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass.

• choke point
• isthmus
• peninsula
• canal

A border drawn over existing accepting borders by an outside or conquering force.

• superimposed
• demarcated
• delimited
• antecedent

Established before people moved into an area.

• superimposed
• consequent
• subsequent
• antecedent

A boundary no longer observed, but that still affects the present-day area. Ex: Border b/t East and West Germany.

• superimposed
• consequent
• subsequent
• relic