GEOGRAPHY 4

(POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY)

NAME:____________________________________________COURSE/YEAR/SET: _____________________________
SCHEDULE: _________________________________________ DATE: _______________________________________

TEST I: IDENTIFICATION

__________________1. An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

__________________2. He is usually acknowledged as the father of political geography.
__________________3. The attempt to affect influence, or control actions, interactions or access by asserting and attempting to
enforce control over a specific geographic area.
__________________4. Relationship between a state’s geographic shape, size, relative location and its political situation.
__________________5. A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or allies of countries.
__________________6. Invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.
__________________7. A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
__________________8. Divisions that divide citizens.
__________________9. Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic and cultural
principles in another territory.
__________________10. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
__________________11. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
__________________12. Transfer of powers from a state to separate locations
__________________13. A state with a long narrow shape.
__________________14. Outlaying portions of territories.
__________________15. An area (usually 370 km) from the shore in which a state has rights to explore, exploit and manage
natural resources.
__________________16. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
__________________17. An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
__________________18. A zone separating two states in which neither states exercises political control.
__________________19. Areas of seas considered beyond territorial waters.
__________________20. Process of withdrawing legislative boundary for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
__________________21. Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.
__________________22. The homeland of a nationality “spilling over” to another state.
__________________23. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
__________________24. A state that encompasses a very small land area.
__________________25. State that contains two or more groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist
peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
__________________26. A state that completely surrounded one.
__________________27. A compact state with a large projecting extensions.
__________________28. An area organized into political unit and is ruled by an established government with control over its
internal and foreign affairs.
__________________29. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
__________________30. A nationality that is not represented by a state.
__________________31. The area of sea around a country’s coast recognized as being under that country’s jurisdiction.
__________________32. An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.
__________________33. Association of three or more states.
__________________34. An organization of nations that was formed in 1945 to promote peace, security and international
cooperation.
__________________35. It is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways
in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.
__________________36. It is the study of aerial differentiation, of variations at different sales in the environment, in human
activities and in interaction between the two.
__________________37. It often defined as ‘’the study of the allocation of scarce means to satisfy competing ends’’.
__________________38. It is a human right for all people to share equally in the benefits bestowed by a healthy environment.
__________________39. Consist of group of people with a common political identity.
__________________40. A nation that transcend the boarders of two or more states.

TEST II. ESSAY (5 POINTS EACH)

1. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEOPOLITICS AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY?

2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY?

 Answer key
TEST I:
1. TERRITORY
2. FRIEDRICH RATZEL
3. TERRITORIALITY
4. TERRITORIAL MORPHOLOGY
5. BALANCE OF POWER
6. BOUNDARY
7. CITY-STATE
8. CIVIL DIVISIONS
9. COLONIALISM
10. COLONY
11. COMPACT STATE
12. DEVOLUTION
13. ELONGATED STATE
14. EXCLAVE
15. EEZ OR EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES
16. FRAGMANTED STATES
17. FEDERAL STATES
18. FRONTIER
19. HIGH SEAS
20. GERRYMANDERING
21. IMPERIALISM
22. IRREDENTISM
23. LANDLOCKED STATE
24. MICROSTATE
25. MULTINATIONAL STATE
26. PERFORATED STATE
27. PRORUPTED STATE
28. STATE
29. SOVEREIGNTY
30. STATELESS NATION
31. TERRITORIAL WATERS
32. UNITARY STATE
33. SUPRANATIONALISM
34. UNITED NATIONS
35. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
36. GEOGRAPHY
37. ECONOMICS
38. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
39. NATION
40. MULTI-STATE NATION

TEST II. ESSAY

1. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GEOPOLITICS AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY?
2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY?