AP HuG Ch 9.1 and 9.2

What term describes a narrow passage, such as a strait, through which shipping must pass?

• Autonomous

• Choke point

• Colonialism

• Devolution

Which term refers to the process of establishing the limits or boundaries of something?

• Demarcate

• Irredentism

• Imperialism

• Multinational state

What is the term for a political unit with a high degree of self-government?

• Colonialism

• Autonomous

• Devolution

• Geometric boundary

Which term describes the transfer of power from a central government to local or regional administrations?

• Devolution

• Define

• Administer

• Delimit

What is the term for a state that contains more than one nation within its borders?

• Multistate nation

• Multinational state

• Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)

• Consequent boundary

What term describes a political entity characterized by a defined territory and a permanent population under a single government?

• Nation

• State

• Stateless nation

• Shatterbelt

Which concept refers to the control of a territory by a foreign power, often for economic exploitation?

• Sovereignty

• Neocolonialism

• Self-determination

• Territoriality

What is the term for a nation that does not have its own state and is not the majority population in any state?

• Nation-state

• Stateless nation

• Semiautonomous

• Relic

Which term describes the right of a people to determine their own political status and to be free of external interference?

• Sovereignty

• Self-determination

• Superimposed boundary

• Subsequent boundary

What is the name of the international agreement that governs the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans?

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

• Political geography

• Territoriality

• Shatterbelt