Chapter 8 Human Geography Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
  2. 4. Ability of a state to govern its state free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
  3. 6. An invisible line that marks the extent of a states territory
  4. 7. An internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to units of local government.
  5. 9. The systemic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into taking actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actiosn it wants to take.
  6. 11. A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
  7. 12. A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office
  8. 13. A state with a long, narrow shape
  9. 14. a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the 2 types
  10. 16. An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
  11. 17. A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
  12. 20. An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principals in another territory.
  13. 21. A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countyside
  14. 23. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
  15. 24. A state that encompasses a very small area of land.
  16. 25. A zone separating two states into which neither state exercises political control.
  17. 26. A state that contains more than one ethnicity
Down
  1. 1. An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
  2. 3. A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions or self determination that agree to coexist peacfully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
  3. 5. A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
  4. 8. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
  5. 10. manipulate the boundaries to favor one party or class
  6. 15. A condition of roughly equal strengths between opposing countries or alliances of countries
  7. 18. A state in whic the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly
  8. 19. An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of the central government oficials
  9. 22. A state that completely surrounds another one