AP Human Geography
Across
- 4. A nominally independent country that is politically, militarily, and economically controlled by a more powerful state.
- 5. A state with a long, narrow shape.
- 6. A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has some degree of, but not complete, self-government.
- 8. A state that rules itself and is not subject to the authority of another state.
- 12. A community of people bound to a homeland and possessing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity, and religion.
- 14. (2) A country containing multiple national, ethnic, and religious groups within its boundaries.
- 15. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
- 16. A state that completely surrounds another one.
- 17. A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory.
- 19. A state that possess the sole authority over the land and people within its boundaries.
- 21. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
- 22. An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
Down
- 1. A territory that a nation is based on; the motherland or fatherland.
- 2. Zone that extends 200 nautical miles from shoreline in which coastal states have the sole right to exploit, develop, manage and conserve all water resources lying beyond the land.
- 3. (2) Ethnic groups territorially divided by one or more international boundaries.
- 7. A subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has a degree of self-government, or autonomy, in its decision making.
- 9. An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel; usually lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances.
- 10. The ideal geographical unit; one in which nation’s geographic boundaries (a people and its culture) exactly match the state’s territorial boundaries (governance and authority).
- 11. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
- 13. (2) An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not majority population in any Nation-State
- 18. An independent political unit with a centralized authority that makes claim to sole legal, political, and economic jurisdiction over a region with defined boundaries.
- 20. A politically and economically weak independent state country that lies between the borders of two powers.