Geopolitical Concepts Quiz

What is the process of reallocating electoral seats to voting districts called?

• Devolution

• Gerrymandering

• Reapportionment

• Redistricting

Which term describes a nation of people without a sovereign place to claim as home?

• Multistate Nation

• Autonomous Region

• Stateless Nation

• Nation-State

What is the term for the drawing of new electoral boundary lines in response to population changes?

• Redistricting

• Reapportionment

• Gerrymandering

• Devolution

Which term refers to a state where the government has lost the ability to provide the most basic of public services?

• Autonomous Region

• Failed state

• Unitary state

• Federal state

What is a group of people with common cultural characteristics called?

• Nation

• State

• Region

• Colony

What is a type of state where power is held by the central government only?

• Confederation

• Autonomous

• Unitary

• Federal

Which theory suggests that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain the strength to eventually dominate the world?

• Rimland Theory

• Organic Theory

• Heartland Theory

• Neocolonialism

What is the term for forces that unify people and enhance support for the state?

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Centripetal

• Centrifugal

What is the term for forces or attitudes that tend to divide or weaken a state?

• Centripetal

• Imperialism

• Centrifugal

• Federalism

What is the term for a country where governmental authority is shared between the central body and smaller regional authorities?

• Confederation

• Unitary

• Federal

• Autonomous