9.2 Nat Geo Reading Quiz APHG

What are some examples of territoriality?

• Hostile takeovers, military conquest, imperialism

• Urban zoning laws, Commercial real estate law, Business competition

• Animal scent marking, property boundaries, and national borders.

• Political regime changes, Voting zone laws

The attempt by an individual or group to affect, influence, or control people, phenomena, and relationships by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area.

• Territoriality

• International Relations
• Political Science
• Geography

How does a state assert and maintain political power?

• Impose control over the people, land, and resources in their territories

• Establish a connection to the people, culture, and economic systems

• Create discriminatory religious laws to force Christians out of a particular area

• Impose a political sphere of influence to control trade

The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

• Colonialism
• Nationalism
• Globalization
• Imperialism

The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies

• Imperialism
• Globalization
• Colonialism
• Neocolonialism

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

• bay access

• choke point

• channel crossing

• gulf canal

How can choke points be sources of power for countries that control them?

• Choke points provide leverage in trade and military strategy, allowing controlling countries to influence global markets and security.
• Choke points are irrelevant to global trade dynamics.
• Choke points only affect local economies and not international relations.
• Countries controlling choke points have no military advantages.

A choke point between Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. All goods shipped between Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia, and South Asia to East Asia come through here.

• Strait of Malacca
• Strait of Hormuz
• Bering Strait
• Strait of Gibraltar

A choke point located between Iran and Oman at the intersection of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

• Strait of Magellan
• Strait of Gibraltar
• Strait of Hormuz
• Bering Strait

When states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states

• Shatterbelt

• Economic instability

• Political unity
• State stability