Exam 6: Political Geography: A Divided World

Using the Internet to transmit messages and information across international borders challenges the _______ of states.

The absence of a core area in a country can blur or weaken citizens' national identity.

Refugees are often the victims of repression based on cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, or religion.

Which country comes closest to the "ideal" hexagonal configuration of a national territory?

-According to the map, which statement is NOT true?

Many countries consider _____ as the logical limits of their territorial growth.

The westward expansion of American influence during the colonial area and the expansion of Paris as political and economic power was consolidated in the city are examples of:

Many of the nation-states carved out of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia are fairly homogeneous linguistically and ethnically.

Switzerland is organized into regions called cantons based on linguistic differences. The boundaries of these cantons are:

Which site in South America is sometimes called "the American Stonehenge"?

The _____ is now the primary political-geographic form for the entire globe.

The capital city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia is:

China is a buffer state between Nepal and Mongolia.

-Which country on the map was NOT independent prior to 1950?

The "heartland theory" belongs to the long-discredited doctrine of:

The condition of _____ implies that people exist in a sort of in-between state, maintaining ties, residences, and friendships in more than one country.

In which U.S. state was gerrymandering repeatedly and successfully challenged in the federal courts?

The doctrine of manifest destiny helped to justify the belief that:

Which is NOT an example of an elongated country?

Which of the following countries is laying claim to part of the Arctic?